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Chainlink fence...How do YOU do it?


Dave Bond
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I hope noone is gonna tell me to model this stuff...hehe...so how do you fellas quickly make a believable texture that casts shadows also?

I was gonna just make a diamond shape crosshatch greayscale jpg and use that...but can I just do it as easliy in Viz with the delivered stuff?

I use VRAY to render with also sometimes, I am still learing about it though also.

 

Thanks!

 

Dave

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I haven't tried this so if it works please let me know:

 

 

Thake a brick texture and apply it to the opac map slot. Rotate 45 on the w axis and place white for the grout, black for the brick swatch. I think it would be best to have the brick be square. This is just a diamond opac map. Real chain link weaves.

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I am not sure if it will work or not if we use blend material. use black/white (opacity map) as a mask map. Just put chainlink map on diffuse map for material 1 only and make it 2sides. For material 2, just make specular, diffuse and ambient to be black, opacity = 0 and leave the material to be render 1 side.

 

If it doesn't work, I prefer to use projector light or shadow bitmap. This is to avoid long time rendering.

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A Few years ago I used a chainlink fence on a building, it was molded, but I don´t know how it was made...

maybe I can find it on my models librery...

as it is a model you don´t have to use alpha channel...(better for me as long as I don´t know hou to use it)

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