Mass of Wires or Cables Texture

[soulburn3d]

Well, what sort of material are the wires made of? Metal? Rubber? Painted Metal? There's a lot of variety. Also, I'd recommend texturing them as a whole instead as individual cables. If you have the same pattern on all the cables, you're going to notice very quickly that they're all clones of each other, and it'll look odd.

- Neil

[Stefan-Morrell]

for 3dsmax users I'd recommend using Neils 'WireJumble' script(part of the soulburn scripts pack & I think also in the old blur scripts pack)
http://www.neilblevins.com/soulburnscripts/soulburnscripts.htm
the benefit of doing it in 3d is you can render out height,normal,opacity,color maps etc,offering all the control of a 3d scene to create a 2d texture

Cheers

[soulburn3d]

Thanks for the plug Stefan :) Although I recommend not using the old blurpack one, that's like 7 years old now, and isn't nearly as full featured as the soulburn one.

- Neil

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