Alain wrote:
> If all you want is maya oriented tips, then you are in the wrong group.

Hehe, see below. :-)

> One thing that you can do, is to model in maya, then export and render 
> in POV-Ray. Take a look at poseray, it can convert many formats into POV 
> format.

I figured it out, and I'll explain it. I guess you've been 
misunderstanding me all the time, or I was writing cryptic...

I export the roof-mesh to POV-Ray and then use a script to place 
shingles onto it, placing hundreds of them and thus get a nice, slated 
roof - all inside POV-Ray.

I put the camera inside the roof, viewing outwards, and set all tiles to 
no_image. There's a large cylinder around the roof, which does nothing 
else than reflecting.
Thus, when my cylindrical camera looks outward, I see the roof as if 
from the outside (no_image-Objects show up in reflections). The 
resulting render I can use for a cylindrical mapping inside Maya.

My problem was to set the camera to cylindrical and ensuring that I see 
all 360 degrees around me, otherwise the texture wouldn't line up at the 
seams.

Basically, I was after rendering a cylindrical texture to map onto the 
roof, how to model everything wasn't the issue. Guess I went about 
explaining it the wrong way round. :-) Hope I didn't annoy you too much.

Regards,
Tim



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aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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