Help creating this pattern

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Hi I was just wondering if anyone can help me make a pattern like this one:


I want to make this pattern over a cylinder model I making design like a grip handle. Thanks :wink:

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For Cycles (that I used) or for BI, the answer is simple: Bump map. I made a quickie.

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The bump map I made, only to point your in the right direction. I repeat: This is just a quickie.


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Or else, if your scene isn’t too heavy already, a Displace modifier gives really nice results…

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Much better! :smiley:

(And this thread should be in Materials…)

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That’s pretty neat Kaluura.

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Thanks. I like very much this second picture… It looks like a photograph from something found in a hardware store. :smiley:

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also, you can do it manually quite easily, assuming your topology is of completely even quads. I think I have an RGB normals map of such as well, which I made from a modified grid…I’ll see if I can find it among my attachments…

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This thread was very usefull for me as well! so thanks for sharing this :smiley:

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Thanks for the replies. I actually managed to create a similar pattern by extruding individual faces on my model although they are square and not diamond shaped like the picture posted by Modron.

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if you then collapsed each outer face into a single vertex, you would have the same thing as my initial grid. another way to do it, assuming you only need it to be flat would be to make a single pyramid, and use two array modifiers on it to make it into a grid.