how to model this wall screen

[chow choppe]

Hi everyone

 

can anyone please suggest me how i can model a screen like this

 

 

the fenestrations patterns is random. I can also use an opacity map by PShopping a pattern but i want detail shots of this so i would prefer to model it

 

it has to run across my whole building facade at a distance of 3 mtrs from it.

the plan of the building is in the for for a closed U alphabet.

 

please suggest the best possible way.

 

thanks

[manta]

I would use an opacity map combined with a displacement map to give it thickness...

[Nic H]

model it using loads of splines?

[SandmanNinja]

While I'm a fan of splines, I think I'd go with an Opacity Map for this one.

[chow choppe]

i am able to make the fenestrations using an opacity map but not able to show the thincknees of this wall which is around 13"

i tried copying the opacity map to vray displacement map but the results are not at all acceptable

 

kindly suggest

 

thanks

[Tommy L]

you could model the wall without the holes. Then distribute objects over the mesh using scatter or something similar. Then you could ramdomize the scale of the objects, apply a noise modifier to adjust the shapes of the objects. Then boolean the objects out of the wall. You will end up with quite a messy mesh, but it is a geometry solution. I dont think the displacement method will work in close-up.

Good luck !

[chow choppe]

not working that way :-(

 

even if the fenestration sizes are different they are still following a pattern for layout over the facade

can someone tell me how this can be modelled using splines

 

thanks

[Tommy L]

Then I think you will have to do it the hard way. Model it flat, use lots of splines for the holes, then bend it into shape.

[chow choppe]

thanks everyone

 

tommy the cocoshambala villas look neat .

will surely visit the place when i next go to goa.

too expensive though for me to stay in them :-)

[Tommy L]

Thanks!

[itarc]

Make a plane, bend follow direction you want.->Cut hole->Turbosmooth>shell.

[alias_marks]

then bend it into shape.

 

Just out of curiousity, how do you guys 'bend' into shape like this? would you use multiple bend modifiers and just adjust their gizmos range? Use ffd maybe? (this is a method I've used before but it still distorts the mesh in ways I'm sill not too happy with and curious if there's a better way).

 

Is there a way to have a poly geometry like this follow a specified path? seems like there ought to be...

[Tommy L]

Just out of curiousity, how do you guys 'bend' into shape like this? would you use multiple bend modifiers and just adjust their gizmos range? Use ffd maybe? (this is a method I've used before but it still distorts the mesh in ways I'm sill not too happy with and curious if there's a better way).

 

Is there a way to have a poly geometry like this follow a specified path? seems like there ought to be...

 

Path deform might do the trick. Never used it, but it was applied to an object I downloaded. The object was a telephone. The path deform laid the path for the cord, but the 'helix' was already in the cord.

But yes, I was referring to several bend modifiers like you said.

[alias_marks]

Thanks Tom,

 

Now that you mention it I recall a video copilot tutorial where they used path deform, and I remember thinkin to myself, man I need to use that more often...

 

if anyone is interested (starts around 14:30) - http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/growing_3d_vines/

Edited October 29, 2009 by alias_marks
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