incrustrations on a Dragon

I have to put (fish type) scales on a Dragon I have just drawn, to cover
about 70% of
it`s body lots of little extrusions or any thing to break up the smoth
surface he looks naked any tip`s to speed
this tedious process up would be much appreciated

Thanks in advance

Mike

 

I think the silence after your last post said it all. Unless you have a
spare weekend to spend on this, you might consider mapping a texture. If
you have to have the geometry, I would recommend simplifying it somewhat,
by possibly making swept grooves instead of making each individual scale.
I did something like that once for a shingled roof, but it had the
advantage of being simpler geometry that was easier to fit a pattern to.

Maybe you could post a picture of your dragon? Here's one I did as an
example of a centerline loft. No scales.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~mlombard/dragon.jpg

 

the only thing i can think of is a sketch driven pattern

 

Mike,

Igot it !!!

"Scaleworks" a new SW add in !!!


Mark

 

28.09.2004 23:36:25

Any link ? Dynabits had an add-in to make "real" 3D patterns (like
the sketch-driven, but ensuring the patterned features are built
tangent or normal to the closest face at each point). It is used for
golf balls and jewelry.
For a simpler and realistic dragon I'd advise to use textures (see
http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.
cfm/ID/131940/Action/FullPreview and http://www.dragonrealm.
com/collectcir.htm for examples) and ideally to render it through
"bump mapping" or even "displacement mapping" techniques available on
some "artistic" 3D tools, but not on CAD yet (SolidWorks 2006+ ?)

 

Philippe,

You do know that this was a joke,,, right??


Mark