Well I want to make a very solid structure (like metal lattice work) but
have small dents appear here and there in the metal.  Creating a height
field or iso surface seems a more difficult route. I just want a way to make
small dents every so often in the surface.  If there was a way to make a
pigment that was made of polka dots I could replace the polka dot color with
a transparent color and get the effect I need.

"Hugo" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
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> > Is there an easy way to make real dents in a metal texture.
>
> Heightfields or Isosurfaces. Both have limitations. HF's are fast but
shape
> is limited to a grid. Iso's are slow but shape is more flexible. Sometimes
> Iso's are very hard to understand without being a math genious, but try
this
> link:
>
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/ic/index.html
>
> Regards,
> Hugo
>
>

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