[deadalvs]

good morning starshine ...

*lala*

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question:

i am trying to create a very realistic material that looks like this here:


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my results so far:





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okay. the thing i need is a decent material that shows a large variance in stones and of course also that hand-crafted quality. the construction of the wall itself is nearly okay and possible, i just miss a cool material that shows also the cages more realistically.

any ideas on this ?

thanks ...

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goodbye starshine ...

*humm*

[deadalvs]

a little nearer:

[Tea_Bag]

Is that texture including the Wire cage? or is the cage seperate from the texture? Great start tho!

[Tea_Bag]

It also seems that you need to scale up the tiling just abit

[Tea_Bag]

Is this any Good?

[deadalvs]

it is a complete texture ... still ...

i took a photograph from a wall not far away, photoshopped it (also by quadrupling the image to a larger one and eliminating the most significant stones)

yes, scale is always off in my images, i need to make a script that controles that !!

[Tea_Bag]

This might be a weird way to approach it - If you find the right texture Wouldn't it be a good Idea to Clone the polys of the wall where the texture would go and offset it only
by a couple of mm and use clip map for the wire? that way you'll see the stone texture through the wire clip map and might even make the wire more visible!

[deadalvs]

thanks for the feedback...

that image is not very good because of the construction. this shows a very light meshy wire, but these cages must hold in reality a stone mass of 25 cm depth ! they have 5mm solid steel that is fixed back at the facade onto a concete element with a steel body (missing technical words, sorry...)

but best would be a layer of just rough stones without any wires (photoshop) and then an added wire-layer with the controllable thick mesh on top (a little shiny and normal-mapped )

anyone interested in the original texture ? i could share it...

[deadalvs]

This might be a weird way to approach it - If you find the right texture Wouldn't it be a good Idea to Clone the polys where of the wall where the texture would go and offset it only
by a couple of mm and use clip map for the wire? that way you'll see the stone texture through the clip map and might even make the wire more visible!

ah, a refreshing idea... i had not a that clear image in mind, but this would look awesome ! and i could control exactly (with geometry) where the wire would go, while the stones behind could be randomized !

thanks for that one ... *hugs*

[Tea_Bag]

Thats ok deadalvs, happy to help as you've helped me before

[deadalvs]

hehe... we'd be a good team in war ...

--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLVuvHpDS2o

[Tea_Bag]

Ah man I'm in stitches! Great Clip - A team in war we are hehe

[adri]

you didn't happen to put this on the materials site did you?

I'd like a copy if poss...

TIA

Adri

[deadalvs]

not yet added ... i'll put it up , k?

i'll write here when it's up !

[siliconbauhaus]

just to let you know those things are called gabions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion

I would think it would abe a difficult thing to do as a texture unless you have a huge map so as not to tile ?