"Nekar Xenos" <j-p### [at] citywalkcoza> wrote in message
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> "Dan Dombrowsky" <ddo### [at] vtedu> wrote in message
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> > Nice Work!
> >
> > I think the easiest way for a license plate may be a heightfield. *looks
> > through links* I think someone has a tutorial about making flat-type objects
> > with hfs. Hmmm...
> >
> Thanks. After trying to do a guitar with a violin shaped bulge via a
heightfield
> and not liking the results(reflection looks bad), I try to stay away from
height
> fields. But then again it would probably work for a number-plate as it's not
the
> most important part of a car(design-wise)....
>

Given it's lack of importance, and the fact you'll not likely have a close-up
shot of it, then you might be able to use a thin slice of a superellipsoid cube
(for round corners) and use the image you might make for a height-field as a
bump-map instead.

Batronyx ^"^

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