Grill

[JohnPark]

If you don't need to get very close to the grill in a render, you could use a NURBS plane with a transparency, specular and bump map (or displacement map) to fake it. This is especially effective with a tight pattern like you described.
-JP

[hitch24]

thanx jhon i will try and wrap my mind around that, could you please explain how to do that if it is not too much trouble.

#HiTcH#

[Komarcic]

the easiest way is to create a texture in photoshop.
just put lots of thick lines on order so they have grillish structure. add alpha channel under the layer control. apply it as a texture to a nurbs/poly plane and there you go.

[hitch24]

thanks 3d guru it all seems much clearer now.

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