I hate to say it, but most of the lanes around here are fibreglass now. I
took the kids bowling this morning, not *just* to look at the lanes, but I
took a gander. My image is a little off, mostly in the color of the gaps
between the *fake* planks.

If I could find a wooden lane, I'd trace it. :)

GrimDude
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There are no gaps between the boards, but the image had a normal map with
a checker pattern but I didn't include that in the code. And I know that
the planks are too wide and not long enough for a bowling alley, but they
are working for my purposes. I didn't really recusomize my code, for which
I apologize... but the theory should work. I also tried to get a chamfered
shape to them with a normal statement, but I couldn't seem to get it to
work. I've had difficulty with brick,box, and crackle pattern in my normal
statements lately, so using Checker is a cheap workaround



Fabien Mosen wrote:

> Some hints :
> - a bowling lane should have no gaps between the planks (I hope so !),
> you could show the different planks by giving them a chamfered shape :
>   ___________  ___________
>  /           \/           \
>
> - scale down the wood textures until they look more realistic;
> they are currently approx. 5 times too big.
>
> - apply the same pattern for the normal as the pigment (wood..
> turb ...), and add a slight phong/specular and reflection to
> give a varnished look.
>
> Cheers,
> Fabien.

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Just out of interest, on the MAX World Creating Toolkit CD there is a really
cool bowling lane.  The thing that's so cool about it is that it has been
dynamically solved.  It's an animation of the ball hitting the pins and
knocking them over.  It looks really good, it uses MAX's dynamics solver to
get a perfect representation of the motion, collisions and energy transfer.
You might want to try this with AERO for POV-Ray, I hear it's pretty good.
I think it might be Linux only though.  Worth a go though.

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