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Wakko303
03-14-2003, 12:00 AM
anybody have any ideas on making a decent looking chain link fence and tennis court net?

The only idea I have right now is a plane with a texture on it with transparent holes in the texture. I would prefer something that would actually look like a net or fence and not just a flat plane.

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Also, I am assuming that modeling every part of the fence would take a long time and pretty much kill my machine just working with the scene and trying to render it.

Thanx
DarkBane
03-14-2003, 04:41 AM
Modeling the fence wouldn't be hard, it would just be very tedious and probably not necessary unless you're going for a close up shot.

Texture a plane would probably be your best bet, for both. To get a 3d look, play around with the bump map and displacement map.

good luck
MikeRhone
03-14-2003, 04:56 AM
Depending on the shot. If you get anything less than say 75 degrees from straight on to the fence, model it. I've had to do a modelled chain link before, and it was surprizingly really fast. I made one "zigzag" Link vertically, and duplicated it along the row. It did slow down the scene a bit in perspective, but I just put it on its own layer and it was easy breezy.

Hope this helps.

Mike R
Wakko303
03-14-2003, 05:56 AM
Thanx for the input. Looks like I have some experimenting to do. But, I think that I will probably have to model but we will see what texturing and bump maps will yield
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