incrustrations on a Dragon

I think the silence after your last post said it all. Unless you have a spare weekend to spend on this, you might consider mapping a texture. If you have to have the geometry, I would recommend simplifying it somewhat, by possibly making swept grooves instead of making each individual scale. I did something like that once for a shingled roof, but it had the advantage of being simpler geometry that was easier to fit a pattern to.

Maybe you could post a picture of your dragon? Here's one I did as an example of a centerline loft. No scales.

"mike" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.comindico.com.au:

Surface knot point density? It should be possible to place an ordered array of "scaled scales", one per set of 3 knot points ... but overlaps might be an issue ... and a bit of API programming needed ...

the only thing i can think of is a sketch driven pattern

Mike,

Igot it !!!

"Scaleworks" a new SW add in !!!

Mark

Any link ? Dynabits had an add-in to make "real" 3D patterns (like the sketch-driven, but ensuring the patterned features are built tangent or normal to the closest face at each point). It is used for golf balls and jewelry. For a simpler and realistic dragon I'd advise to use textures (see

and for examples) and ideally to render it through "bump mapping" or even "displacement mapping" techniques available on some "artistic" 3D tools, but not on CAD yet (SolidWorks 2006+ ?)

Where's BD ?

Philippe,

You do know that this was a joke,,, right??

Mark