sofa, armchair stitches

[ribizli]

At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to make the stitches on sofa and armchair if I need a closeup render.
I found some extremely good examples.
Material UVW mapping or should I model the stitches as well? Or something simpler?
I would welcome any suggestions Maybe a good video tutorial?
Thanks in advance

[Steve West]

Probably be easier to just model it rather than having to to create a different texture and unwrap the uv's for each piece... That way you can just throw a uvw map on everything and use a different material for the stitching.

[ralf kirsch]

Probably be easier to just model it rather than having to to create a different texture and unwrap the uv's for each piece... That way you can just throw a uvw map on everything and use a different material for the stitching.

Hm - ready to hear how you model this out. Some suggestions?. RK

[Stan Zaslavsky]

look up Fran from Surreal Structures - she's done a sofa with stitching and it looks great

[Dave Buckley]

model a single stitch

then use the new object paint in 2011 to distribute the single stitch along an edge loop on the armchair

ask fran, she has recently done it and posted the results on here

[Dave Buckley]

stan beat me too it

[Dave Buckley]

heres the link to frans image http://forums.cgarchitect.com/61110-...r-max2011.html

originating from stans thread

[Stan Zaslavsky]

it'd be great to see a tutorial for this from Fran wink wink if she is watching this thread

[ribizli]

Unfortunately I only have max2010. So I would be really happy if a pro uploaded a tutorial in this stitches issue. Anyway thanks for the comments.

[Dave Buckley]

ok so i guess one method would be:

in edit poly mode, select the edge where you would like the stitching
with the edges selected, choose create shape from the edit poly rollouts
name the shape in the dialogue that pops up
exit edit poly mode

you should now have a separate spline in exactly the same place as the edge you want to use for the stitches

model a single stitch (this could be as simple as an renderable arc)
use the spacing tools to space the stitch along the spline 'path' you created earlier

pretty much the same workflow as the Object Paint tools in max 2011, just not as automated

if you are just creating piping, then do exactly the same as above, but once you've detahced your edge selection, just make it renderable and give it a thickness

hope it helps.

before you go all out on your geometry, just test it with a simple sphere or something