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IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159
edited November 2014 in The Commons

http://www.daz3d.com/lazer-cat
Anyone know where I can get a ball of yarn?

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  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited November 2014

    When I first saw this, I thought that someone have finally made our very own version of Harry Partridge's Captain Meow!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rpn1cMdMkg

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  • cecilia.robinsoncecilia.robinson Posts: 2,208
    edited December 1969

    A primitive then covered with furrified shaders?

  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,344
    edited December 1969

    cecilia.robinson said:
    A primitive then covered with furrified shaders?

    No, it has to be a ball of LAZER yarn. ;-)

    -- Walt Sterdan

  • Atticus BonesAtticus Bones Posts: 364
    edited December 1969

    Can't vouch for the quality, but Google brought this up: http://www.sharecg.com/v/19615/gallery/5/3D-Model/Yarnball-Object

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    A ball with a hand-count of ridges on it, I'm not that impressed.

    Atticus Bones, could make a complete "ball of LAZER yarn", that actually had thread ridges everywhere, not just a few spots, lol.
    I'm not volunteering Atticus, I'm just saying the quality of the one item is akin to circa 1980 CG, lol.

    O.K. I'm kind of disappointed. Tho I should not be for something over seven years old, and free. :coolhmm:

  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    Surely, you'd just use these for the effects?

    http://www.daz3d.com/ultrueviolet-light-and-glowing-shaders-for-daz-studio

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited November 2014

    Now that I think about it, all you would need are some torus primitives, and a fuzzy surface shader to put on them.

    It's the strand coming out of the ball that would be the tricky part for posing as you wish.

    Just make a torus, copy it, rotate the one with a slight offset, copy it again, and keep doing that until you have a ball. Export the final mess as an OBJ, import the OBJ, select all the surfaces and apply the fuzzy surface shader.

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  • Atticus BonesAtticus Bones Posts: 364
    edited November 2014

    zarcondeegrissom pretty much hit the nail on the head.

    The quick and dirty way would be to stack a few tori in a group and then copy and rotate till you've got a ball, then slap a shader on it.
    Although, I suspect the "correct" way would be to make a seamless displacement map that could be applied to a simple sphere.

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  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited November 2014

    With grooves that deep, displacement maps, produce bad shadow effects. It's a glitch that has been there for a while. It must be done with poly-mesh to look good.
    Example here, the grooves between the floor tiles.

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  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited December 1969

    Are you using 16 bit gray scale TIFF format for the displacement map?

  • ZarconDeeGrissomZarconDeeGrissom Posts: 5,412
    edited December 1969

    24bit BMP straight out of "MS paint". The program I make most of my maps in. Each tile there is a 200x200 pixel map, tiled across the floor.

    converting it to anything else would only be pointless, unless you wanted to degrade the image, or make it excessively larger in ram. And that is not why it causes that shadow skipping effect with deep grooves.

  • Atticus BonesAtticus Bones Posts: 364
    edited November 2014

    I think most modeling apps can convert a displacement to geometry. I know it's possible in both Maya and Modo for sure, probably Blender too.

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