building tire tread 2005-04-09 - By Harvey White
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:21:49 -0000, you wrote:
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>HI guys. I have tried but with little success to build accurately
>detailed high performance street tires. The bump map does not give me
>the depth I need. I had tried using the torus / section / using a
>different .ai profile for each section, but that is such a pain to
>build my custom tread pattern in profile. I had hoped to bring the
>tread pattern in as .ai file and then extrude it and wrap it, but I
>can't see how I can do that. I hope this makes sense. Any thoughts are
>welcomed.
I'd do the following:
1) create the tire as a torus section (and a non circular cross
section one at that) in the spline modeler.
2) generate your tread pattern as a texture map, for a test, anything
will do well, checkers might even look semi realistic...
3) use anything grooves... Under modifiers for the tire, apply the
anything grooves modifier. Try the downloaded trial version, it will
give you enough of an idea to see if it will work for you.
4) this should give you your tire.
Harvey
>cheers,
>Graham
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