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# 1 09-09-2007 , 05:04 PM
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Modeling the great wall of china

Hi guys,

I am trying to model something that looks a lot a like the great wall of china. I was wondering how could i make the polygon wall to follow the surface of the mountains, witch are made from a poly plane and a displacement map.
Is there a way to make a polygon object morph depending on his contact with an other object?(I tried warp but it didn t work so well)..

Thanks all for your help
 
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# 2 09-09-2007 , 05:09 PM
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if I were going to do this, I'd probably finalize how I want the ground to look and then use Make Live to draw a couple path curves on the surface and Extrude or Birail or whatever the geometry for making the wall out of.
 
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# 3 09-09-2007 , 05:21 PM
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or If youve modeled the wall already you could use a lattice to adjust the positioing of the wall to match the contours of the terain
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# 4 10-09-2007 , 04:49 AM
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Thanks guys for the suggestions, i haven t model anything yet. I am just trying to find out where i should start.
So there is no way to follow the surface of the displacement map?
Cause i am going to create the moutains out of a rough poly plane, and add a displacement map for the the relief details..
 
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