Swimming Pool Coping

[Dave Cart]

HI, I need help, I'm a swimming pool designer and i seem to have a problem with pool coping everytime I try to render pool coping none of my patterns are perrallel to my pool edge rather they go from right to left and up and down but not perrallel to the edge. I hope i explained it right.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Attach a picture.

[Dave Cart]

here's 2 samples, the first shows the rendered coping not what i want. the secound shows the coping the way i need it come out but rendered

[Dave Cart]

Sorry Heres some better pics. Im just having trouble explaining what I m looking for the  number 1 pic that shows the coping that i keep comiing up with. the 2nd is what im looking to accomplish

[Kevin Lockwood]

It might be best to model the coping. Especially on a curved pool. Otherwise, you may have to break your coping into pieces to get the mapping close.

This sample was made by extruding the coping around the pool. Then using the same path, used array to spread a thin solid for the grout, which I used interfere to create the shapes.

Yes, it will add some weight to the file, but I don't think you'll get it close with just a material (unless its a square pool and then planar mapping will probably work out.

[Dave Cart]

excuse me for asking but what do you mean by Model

[Kevin Lockwood]

basically, build each tile

[Dave Cart]

Thank you it worked. great water texture

[Kevin Lockwood]

good. Its a bunch of work, but I think in the long run, really makes a difference.

 

The samples are fro an old ar3/4 job. That material used some fake caustics which really doesn't work very well in nXt.