thanks, i'll give it a try and let you know if it works

Tried it already. The result is unpredictable and anyways i'd like to use a weathered bitmap texture that's very hard if not impossible to reproduce in a procedural shader. The bend deformer also...

thought of that, but it's way too cheap indeed.
i'm hoping there's a more professional approach.

Hi guys, i'd like to do a rusty metal sphere with some text carved in it. I need it to be real geometry, not bump.
Seems to be a relatively simple task but is still beyond my skills.

The first...

seems to be ok, for some reason there's a lot more settings under hw texturing now. i didn't actually change anything just reopened the scene. it looks perfect, thanks for your help.

I might be doing something wrong but there's no such option under hardware texturing. (see attached screenshot). I'm using maya 2010.

http://morfon.hu/temp/hwt.gif

Anyways the texture seems to...

Many thanks, mate, i'll go try it out now.

Hi,
i'd like to create a 360 degree projector screen, actually the inner side of a cylinder. The projectors are in the middle of the cylinder.

The image shouldn't be actually projected, it's...

The copper is extruded along the same path so it's no extra effort to do, two clicks actually. All components must be visible, copper thread included, it's gonna be a layered pic in flash where you...

Adamranders, your cable is just great, looks more natural than mine. Did you do it with deformers? Pls provide some info