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From: fmartins@esoterica.pt (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: Re: Cutting through metal
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>> How about a clip map? You would need to have the pipe as double-sided
>and name polys on inside different than outside. Use DPaint (or whatever)
>to make a slit in the appropriate spot (position of cut). You could then
>create a "reveal" in Dpaint. This would give you however many frames you
>needed. Map this sequence to both inner and outer surfaces (be careful in
>case you need to flip image sequence if cut is not centered, because you
>want the cutting to match inside and out).
That's it. I made a sword writing stuff on a piece of wood using this method.
In my case, applying the image sequence as a negative bump map was good
enough. The time consuming part was alligning the sword to the carved wood...
