So I want to try to model Crackle glass for a personnel challenge, but really have no idea where to start. Any ideas? I thought about bump mapping but I don’t think it would look much like this…
in cycle
there is a script to make cracks for 2.6 also
see wiki page
If you wanted to get really hardcore you could use the fracture tool (in the add-ons) to make physically accurate cracks. Just make sure you don’t use smooth shading to render the result; the edges will look funky.
A more economic alternative would be to map a glossy texture to a voronoi pattern. I think I’ll go and try that right now.
I just tried the fracture tool, not exactly accurate but close.
Thanks for that tutorial Ricky, ill watch it and see if I can use anything from it.
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Without smooth shading, better but still not there
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Tried bump mapping in cycles, looks pretty bad.
IDK, the top fracture image looks pretty good, and with a little tweaking could probably give yo want you needed.
Yeah this time I used two particle systems for small cracks and larger ones and duplicated the amount of vertices on the mesh.
Results are pretty good
