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# 16 20-01-2006 , 06:25 PM

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much better pal well done the gecko is excellent!!!

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# 17 20-01-2006 , 06:35 PM

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Gee, thanks. That little beast took me at least 3 days to finish. After reading some books, I finally understood how to cut and unfold uv's properly (I think).

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# 18 22-01-2006 , 10:17 PM

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Yeah, your house scene has definately improved. well done. The gecko looks great.

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# 19 23-01-2006 , 02:40 PM

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I think the door and shutter might be improved if you gave the green paint more of a "weathered" look. They'd tie in better then with the walls, which look really good.

Anyway, as a newbie I wanted to ask you how you did the tiled roof. I want exactly that style of roof on a house I'm building, but other than making single tiles and texturing each one I can't think how to do it.

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# 20 24-01-2006 , 01:29 AM

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Well, I'm a newbie too, compared to some experts you can find in this site.

For the tiles: I modeled one tile from a polycube, then I bent it using a bend deformer. Then I duplicated it 20 times to make a row, with a small translation value. I grouped that row and duplicated it 30 times (or so) to make a big area (20x50 tiles). I grouped and rotated all that 180° in order to obtain the lower tiles. I repeated the whole process 4 times. At last I moved some individual tiles a little, or even deleted them. You don't want a "perfect" roof. A really important think, once you are done: COMBINE all the tiles. I didn't do that at the first place and I finished with more than 1000 individual tiles (even if they where grouped). If you don't combine the tiles in 1 or 2 objects, Maya will get really slow.

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# 21 24-01-2006 , 01:33 AM

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And here is a picture of the front roof:

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# 22 24-01-2006 , 01:45 AM

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For the textures, once I had all the tiles combined into a single object, I just used a planar mapping, found a nice "roof" texture:

https://www.mayang.com/textures/index.htm

and worked a little in Photoshop.

This is, of course, a suggestion, I'm sure there are hundreds of different approaches.

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# 23 24-01-2006 , 09:34 AM

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well done on the tiles look cool. user added image

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# 24 24-01-2006 , 12:04 PM

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I love the gecko, fantastic!

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# 25 24-01-2006 , 01:43 PM

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Thanks magicsy and Marlies, I appreciate it.

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# 26 27-01-2006 , 01:28 PM

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Thanks, edoplaza.

I had the slowing down problem you described when I built a wall out of individual bricks - even after I'd combined all the bricks into one new object.

But maybe it was because I put a texture and bump map on each brick before combining them.

So damn much to learn about how this program works...

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