Creating Model Texture

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Permalink Reply by Matt Bennett on March 12, 2010 at 1:34pm

You may be able to mesh the texture at a fairly low setting, and use the meshed version to apply to your target. I don't know if this will be less taxing, but it may help.

Sadly it comes down to horsepower.

Regards,

Matt Bennett
BeavCo

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Permalink Reply by Gene Bauer on March 12, 2010 at 1:40pm

Yeah, and I'm driving the economy model....I'll see if I can get up to speed with meshes.

Thanks,
Gene

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Permalink Reply by Matt Bennett on March 12, 2010 at 2:01pm

Yep, and it never matters what you buy. I know in my case I could buy the Ferrari and still complain that I needed more.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Bauer on March 12, 2010 at 2:10pm

I'm thinking Ferrari or D9 Cat this may still be the wrong way to approach this problem. I don't much care for heightfield but it might be one of the better approaches.

Gene

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Permalink Reply by Matt Bennett on March 12, 2010 at 2:16pm

You may be right. You know, I've always said that this is one thing that programs like Artcam are good at.

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Permalink Reply by Marco D'Arcangelo on March 12, 2010 at 2:42pm

Sorry this may look out of topic but If is horsepower that we are talking about I wish Rhino could one day be Cuda compatible as it's getting really interesting to see how a common GPU can handle realtime render and not even that, even the slowest of all algorithm like the unbiased one looks faster than Vray, now imagine this actually handling computation outside the render area, would be so amazing, like having 250 processors with a common Gt260 Nvidia, crazy!! have a ride if you are into realtime render at http://www.refractivesoftware.com/index.html check the demo out and you'll be impressed...I was. ; )

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Permalink Reply by Dan Anderson on March 16, 2010 at 6:26am

Hello Gene,

This might be out of rhino's primary capabilities.
I've read about Grasshopper, but have no firsthand experience; I would suggest at least checking it out to see if it can do what you're hoping to model.

Your other option may be in applying a texture to your original geometry and then exporting a displacement map.
I've done this a while back using a Labs plug-in (http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/displacement). It does not allow much control over the texture and the final result is a mesh, which can be difficult to post-edit.

Good Luck,
Dan

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