Roof Tiles

[mabulsoudFS]

Hi. I'm Creating some custom rooftile styles and I'm running into a curious issue, I'm trying to get the clipping spline to cut the tiles "straight" at the valleys, I like the way it doesn't do that at the bottom and the ridges will be covered anyway, but the valleys are this intersecting mess that won't be covered up. Is there a way to do that? Image attached for reference

Thanks,

Marwan

[Michal Karmazín]

Hi Marwan,

I'm afraid there isn't a fully automatic way to generate the desired slice. When using the Auto align feature in the Extend X/Y Size to Area mode, it rotates the corresponding array, resulting in such a slice. Disabling the Auto align feature can achieve the desired slice, but it will also slice the bottom. Therefore, manually using the Slice modifier (and Cap Holes, if needed) is the recommended approach in this case.

Best regards,

[DT]

Hi Marwan,

I'm afraid there isn't a fully automatic way to generate the desired slice. When using the Auto align feature in the Extend X/Y Size to Area mode, it rotates the corresponding array, resulting in such a slice. Disabling the Auto align feature can achieve the desired slice, but it will also slice the bottom. Therefore, manually using the Slice modifier (and Cap Holes, if needed) is the recommended approach in this case.

Best regards,

You can do this with a DistanceTex. Draw a box (or you can even use railclone to scale a box along the splines with a certain ID to do it completely parametrically) where the ridge is and what you want to have cut, similarly how you would do it for a boolean. But instead of a Boolean you use a VrayDistanceTex as a mask for the opacity (granted if you use Vray, I'm sure other render engines have a similar map).

- Create your roof material and put a distance tex map in the opacity slot
- Use that box as an object in the distance tex
- Set the distance to 0, far color white, near color black, inside seperate and inside solid enabled, set the color of the inside to black
- Hide the box or railclone or make it none renderable
- Profit

If you use V-Ray it could be that you might have some artifacts (black patches) if you have a lot of overlapping opacity going on, then just raise the Max Transparency Levels in the render settings under Global Switches (Advanced)