Arab roof tiles, texture or modeled?

[HeDaCoM]

Which technique do you use to render roof tiles? (arab tiles) I've tried to model it but generates an insane number of polygons... so. a texture may be the option. but looks flat in a close look. How to do it? I need a solution. maybe what I need is a more powerful computer heh.

[Jeff Mottle]

Here are some previous posts about this:

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=11;t=000004#000000

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000092#000000

[STRAT]

this tut any use? (only i not know wat arab tiles look like) -

 

http://www.neuronblast.com/nrb/tut_rooftop.html

 

thnx to my buddy Antero Pedras for that tut.

[HeDaCoM]

Thanks Jeff for remember me

 

I also was thinking in using the displacement maps... how would have to be the grayscale texture of a tile to displace it? mmmm maybe rendering a tile and using z-buffer channel. I'm going to try and post the results.