Cylinders in NDO

beefaroni

Hi everyone.

Is there a good way to create cylinders in NDO? So far, the one limiting factor seems to be the way that the edges end when drawing out a normal. They need to be super soft for the barrel of the cylinder but at the ends they need to be much tighter.

I searched around on here but couldn't find much.

beefaroni

Quick example of what I want to achieve in NDO.

josh_lynch

One way to achieve what you are looking for is to use masks to provide a hard end to a shape while having the original nDo layer go outside the mask.

In order to achieve the grooves the cut in this can be done by using multiple vector or masks that are converted to normal maps in nDo and changing the slant to down and set to overlay or hard light.

I can give a better example later tonight.

beefaroni

Thank you for the reply!!

Oh, that does make sense. If you do have time time tonight, I'd love a better example to see if there's anything I'm missing.

josh_lynch

Totally, its really simple once you see it once. Ill be glad to post it later.

josh_lynch

So sorry for the late reply on this.

Hope this helps!

beefaroni

Ah this is awesome!! I had the mask part kinda down but I was stuck with the ends. THANK YOU!!

Wiktor

Thanks for posting the example josh_lynch!