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I'm trying to do shingles for my old school (www.beantoad.com/wips.htm), but
I've had limited success, and I'm currently re-thinking the entire way that
I'm going about doing them.
If you come up with something for cedar shingles, I hope you'll share...
:-)
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Jeremy
www.beantoad.com
"Dave Matthews" <dma### [at] nospam net> wrote in message
news:40621316@news.povray.org...
> At the county library, I found building plans for a c. 1917 dairy barn.
> The details of the framing are pretty good, but the rest is lacking
> (in the plans), so I'm going to have to do some research in the area.
> Luckily, we have hundreds of barns around here.
>
> To get all of the boards different, I had to use #macros for the
> repeated elements, and fetch the boards from random locations out in
> "wood space," rather than to use objects. Is this the usual method, or
> is there a better one?
>
> Also, when I'm ready for it, does anyone have tips on shingles? (The
> usual variety here at the time were cedar shakes, which are highly
> variable in length and width, so any kind of a regular pattern looks a
> bit artificial.)
>
> Dave Matthews
>
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