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Subject: Re: Making a Fence
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>Thanks to Dave Warner's hint, I now use the Additive button for
>almost everything.  If you had a nice pic of a chainlink fence, taken
>against a black background, couldn't you map this onto a simple lo-poly
>plane, then click the Additive button, leaving holes in your fence
>where they should be?

>    The only disadvantage in this method is that, if you're using
>shadowmapped shadows, your fence will not cast a fence-pattern shadow, but
>a block of shadow in the shape of your plane.  Also, objects behind it
>will appear as if in shadow, since its transparency is a trick. I usually
>turn off all shadow options for the object in question.  (I haven't tried
>ray-traced shadows in conjunction with the Additive button).

If you are on the Amiga Pro-Fills volume 2 has a chainlink brush that you
could
try as a clip map. It works well in creating a chainlink texture but not
sure how
it would clip map or work with shadows.

Hope this helps.


Robert <just trying to FLY-r> Coates


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