Carpet on Steps

[glorybound]

I am having the darndest time to get something that looks decent. Any tips or direction?

[stupendousman_dk]

What style are you going for? Looking at picture reference there are many ways: https://goo.gl/LkRHti

What are you aiming for?
Are you going for highres close up, or 'just' element in archviz?

[glorybound]

I ended up getting something okay.

[delineator]

Specificity is the soul of narrative...

[werticus]

chamfer and displacement probably.

[delineator]

i mean yeah, honestly, it needs to be a separate geometry that more or less "floats" atop the steps and is held down by the tie backs or rails or whatever style your going with.

I was trying to make a point that threads like this are worthless because they are 100% self serving and don't add anything to the archive the next time someone is struggling with the same thing and searches the forum just to find this dead end of a thread.

Well, actually, we ended up helping more than the OP, so not worthless anymore!

[glorybound]

I don't know, carpet on steps is as descriptive as it gets. Not a carpet runner, or anything else obscure. Just carpet on stairs.

[pixelplume]

how about using the the section tool? cleanup the splines you create, then extrude, shell, uvw, etc?

[particlerealities]

What about V-Ray Fur? Seems like you could fillet the step edges, then modify the Fur settings to look like carpet? Let us know what method you used.

[glorybound]

I ended up making sure all the vertexes were joined and a used a small 3D displacement. The problem I was having was the displacement was projecting out particular to the face; I guess along the normals. With a very small displacement, it worked, but probably just as good as a bump map did. I didn't try fur, but I'll play with it.

[Leeds3D]

to avoid displacement, forestpack do a lovely pre-made carpet. with the right tweaks it can wrap around staircases

[glorybound]

to avoid displacement, forestpack do a lovely pre-made carpet. with the right tweaks it can wrap around staircases

I tried that first, but it went Honorable wrong. However, I didn't do much tweaking. I posted something to their forum a year ago and went back to re-read it. It was as clear as mud

[bardo]

Did you try VrayFur?

[rusteberg]

Here's a vray fur example that could work?

edit: here's a max file to try: http://wanderplay.com/stuff/CarpetOn...VrayFur-2b.max

could work for rugs as well:

[glorybound]

Great, I?ll play around with it, thanks!