Okay... here's the question I have and perhaps a good challenge as well. Is there a way to create a bump map in Vue that would also effect the edges of an object, like a cube or a cylinder so that they are no longer smooth? For example... Take a cube and make it look like a rough brick only with the edges where they are not sharp... to where it looks like a real brick. Can this be done using just bump maps without having to alter the cube what-so-ever? If so... how is it done... if not... is there an easy way of doing it? -=> Jim! <=-

Your talking about displacement mapping. Poser 5 can do this, but not Vue 4.

In Vue, you can create an object in the terrain editor and try for this effect.

Charles

belive it or not I was writing a tutorial about it tonite. It should be ready tomorrow. what you can do is you create your cube and then create a terrain. align it to the edge you want and then create boolean differences along the edges. Ozan

Thanks for the terrain tip (great tutorial project) ! Recently, I saw a work of Alekssander (Aquarium) with smooth edge furniture made with only boolean operations and primitive objects. Awesome modelling work, looking very real. The problem is probably the texturing work , if you use image mapping for all the objects, it could be strange looking at the end : it should be easyer to use procedural textures for such models. Interested to see your opinion. ;=) Yves

You could use Metasequoia, create a box and then deform it, using one of the tools. Yves: (I'm blushing like h***.... lol... )