topic Stone wall in Modeling

Stone wall

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:07:41 GMT

Is it possible to have a stone wall with the actual profile of the stones modeled?

Not sure if this question is so clear.....

I do not want the appearance of roughness in a rendered view, nor do I need a vectorial hatch on a smooth wall. What I am after is a rough stone wall in general 3D.

I hope this is clear.

Mike

Re: Stone wall

Djordje — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:12:56 GMT

fuzzymike2002 wrote:
Is it possible to have a stone wall with the actual profile of the stones modeled?

Not sure if this question is so clear.....

I do not want the appearance of roughness in a rendered view, nor do I need a vectorial hatch on a smooth wall. What I am after is a rough stone wall in general 3D.

I hope this is clear.

Mike

ArchiWall by Cigraph. Expect LOTS of polygons.

Re: Stone wall

Dwight — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:21:20 GMT

you would need to model it.

This is not so hard.
What's rough stone?
Boulders, flat stacks, what?
I assume irregular rectangles.

Working in plan view as an elevation [ie; laid down], you'd build a matrix of irregular rectangle meshes with undulating surfaces. Do an infill with mortar and bob is your uncle.

The panel is "stood up" by making it a library obejct from a 3D view from wherever you think the top of it should be. This will make it into a panel applied to wall faces.

You might like to emulate a StoneCAD image to make your stone match their stone.... for a good texturemap overlay.

Re: Stone wall

Srinivas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:22:35 GMT

I am not sure, how much help this could be, but here is how I model the attached stone wall image.

I made 2 profiles, one with the entire stone and the other with the mortar finish and them place them on to the model, this i did for one of our client who is about to print their 3d model from my file.

I will attach remaining pics in the next posts.

Re: Stone wall

Srinivas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:23:27 GMT

Here is the Stone Profile

Re: Stone wall

Srinivas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:28:26 GMT

Here is the Cement Mortar Profile, I generally give this slightly more thickness than the stone profile.

Re: Stone wall

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:45:15 GMT

Nice stuff guys, I copied this thread into the Tips and Tricks section.
Keep them coming!