Modelling question

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:58 am

Hello, how can I model a text "recessed" in a mesh like in this image? Using booleans would be very complicate to do!
Sorry for the stupid question (not for me, though).

drBouvierLeduc · Post by **drBouvierLeduc** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:23 am

Isn't that just a bump-map ?
Otherwise I don't see a simple way to achieve this, except using boleans.

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:36 am

drBouvierLeduc wrote:Isn't that just a bump-map ?
Otherwise I don't see a simple way to achieve this, except using boleans.

Yes, maybe bump-map is the only alternative. I should study more about these techniques...

SmartDen · Post by **SmartDen** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:56 am

with new 2.43 version you can displace it as well

manitwo · Post by **manitwo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:02 am

indeed i used bumpmapping.

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:00 am

Thank you very much for the replies!

I need some tips about making (text) bump-maps. I've tried writing in white the word "indigo" in a square, black, image and then using it as a bump-map with a "b" factor 0.001 on a gold cube. Here's the result:

As you can see the text is not realistic, you can't compare it with that of manitwo's image

I've tried with "b" equal to 0.01, 0.0001 but in the first case it seems to "sharp", in the second there's no difference with the "b = 0.001" image.

My conclusion is that probably is my bump-map image that is wrong; what should I do?

@ manitwo: can you show me the bump-map you've used to make the can picture?

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:05 am

SmartDen wrote:with new 2.43 version you can displace it as well

Thank you, I'm studying that way too!

drBouvierLeduc · Post by **drBouvierLeduc** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:06 am

two advices : use a rather high resolution image (>1000 x 1000), and blur it a little, avoid pure black and white

manitwo · Post by **manitwo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:09 am

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t34/ ... /bump2.jpg

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:28 pm

Thank you very much again! I have another question: is it possible to export displacement maps into Indigo? It seems not... I have read this guide to learn the basics of displacement (the site is unavaiable at the moment that I'm writing this post) and I can achieve very nice results but I'm not able to use Indigo. Can you give me some tips if there is the possibility to use displacement also with Indigo?

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:55 am

Yummie, vanilla!!!!

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:37 am

Just bake the displacement map onto a mesh, silly

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:32 am

zsouthboy wrote:Just bake the displacement map onto a mesh, silly

Can you tell me how to do it?

Kachu · Post by **Kachu** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:21 pm

Add a displace modifier and use the image as a texture when you apply it.

kepler · Post by **kepler** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:03 pm

Kachu wrote:Add a displace modifier and use the image as a texture when you apply it.

Thank you very much!!!

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