CGTalk - bump or what???

sputnikinspace

06-06-2002, 09:19 PM

Hi all

I am making a speaker and want to create ,like 500 holes in the mesh..

whats the best way to achieve this?? Of course I could use a boolean or just make a bump or paint the texture, but what would you do...

sad

06-06-2002, 10:51 PM

create a bitmap in black and white and use a quite high resolution of about 750x750. take a bitmap programm like phtoshop and create a pattern of points with relatively sharp edges. take a look at a loudspeaker to see how the pattern is to be made. the bitmap must be loaded into the alpha channel of the texture-manager.

i believe that the boole-solution will bring your cpu down to a no-response-at-all-level because of too much data.

LucentDreams

06-07-2002, 07:04 AM

Sad is on the button take his advice to heart.

sputnikinspace

06-07-2002, 09:03 AM

thanks sad for the answer - it worked perfect...

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