Creating carvings?

G0056

Hi, I wanted to create precise carvings (would be baked on a normal map) around a mesh, like this:



What could be the best approach for this? I've tried creating the shape, and using curves in blender to move around the base mesh, but it's a bit difficult to control. What would you do?

goekbenjamin

when i have to do this, i use (in maya) a curve and extrude my floater-mesh along this curve

to bake carvings onto the mesh , you could work with floaters
i baked a "floater" mesh onto a low poly mesh here:



that's the setup:

Eric Chadwick

Along the same lines (har har) this might help you.

http://wiki.polycount.com/w/images/6/6d/Subd_floatingpanelinglines.jpg

sacboi

G0056 said:

I've tried creating the shape, and using curves in blender to move around the base mesh, but it's a bit difficult to control. What would you do?

I'd advise checking out the shrinkwrap modifier, you'll find it's attributes are tailor made for that stuff.

Although personally, working with curves / splines can be a bit finicky for precision so I'll usually default too manual editing, just because it's a slightly more rapid workflow to implement.

An example:

Walkthrough - https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2748609/#Comment_2748609

  

Basically utilizing a technique, illustrating the versatility and efficiency of a given application's native feature-set without augmentation via 3rd party tools.  

G0056

goekbenjamin said:

when i have to do this, i use (in maya) a curve and extrude my floater-mesh along this curve

to bake carvings onto the mesh , you could work with floaters
i baked a "floater" mesh onto a low poly mesh here:



that's the setup:

It's exactly what I need it's possible to create 90º curves? I'm having artifacts with those. Do you know if there's a way to solve this, or should I adust it manually later?