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Subject: how would i make a roller door?

epsilon opened this issue on Oct 12, 2000 · 7 posts
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epsilon ( ) posted Thu, 12 October 2000 at 5:25 AM · edited Wed, 05 February 2025 at 3:49 PM

how would i make a roller door? i am trying to make a loding doc scence and i am stuck on an idea on how to make roller doors "such effect i am after is the ripples in the doors as on a tin roof" any sugestions omni/epsi

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Thu, 12 October 2000 at 9:03 AM

roll.jpg Hi Epsilon, Not sure if this is what you have in mind. I's a spline modeler thing. I usually can't get bump maps to create a convincinvg wave form so I wind up modeling it instead. Mark





Grimpup ( ) posted Thu, 12 October 2000 at 6:07 PM

did you do the profile in Cararra or was it done in AI or Corel? If done in Cararra how did you get the nice offsetting of the pattern? -Grimpup

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Thu, 12 October 2000 at 6:18 PM

Heya Grimpup, I did do the profile in Adobe Illustrator and imported it. It can be done in Carrara but is faster and more precise in AI. What took me a couple of minutes in AI would have taken me a half hour or so in Carrara for the same drawing results. I guess more precise drawing controls in Carrara is on my wishlist for a future version. Mark





epsilon ( ) posted Fri, 13 October 2000 at 2:14 AM

thanks man ya made my day(and amost my door..) now just to get the drawing done and i will show the results later what exact tools did you use in AI omni

MarkBremmer ( ) posted Fri, 13 October 2000 at 5:19 AM

Line settings are No Fill and Black Stroke at 1 point. Started with the Spiral tool with 10 segments and 98% decay rate at 1" diameter (or 1.5, I don't remember). Then Filter>distort>zigzag with some value like 15 per segment and displacement of .02" with "curved" selected for the zigzag joints. Then drew a straight line from the last segment out and did the zigzag thing but played with the values until it looked right. Next was inceasing the stroke weight of the line and spiral to 6 points or so. Then went to the Object>Path>Outline Stroke feature. (This was done to create the thinckness of the door) Finally, I went to Pathfinder>Unite to create a continuous shape and saved the file as an Adobe Illustrator (AI) version 3 file and imported it into Carrara in the Spline Modeler Room. In Carrara, for shapes like these, I will usually set the Object Fidelity at the maximum of 1200% so that the Spline Modeler will accuratly fill the little curves. Hope this helps! Mark





epsilon ( ) posted Fri, 13 October 2000 at 11:25 AM

thanks i will have ago a see omni/epsi

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