Create stitches

[Erik_S]

Does anyone know some tricks to create some nice stitches? I mean you can do it with bump map, displacement, opicaty and what you can think of. But does anyone has a good tip for me? I'm starting with interior now and i came to stitches and i don't know a proper answer.

Thanks in advance

[tom120934]

The best looking ones I ever saw are from Orb on his Porsche Carrera GT. There was a thread on CGCars, not sure if it's still there. Some pics a bit of googling gave me :

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...-Interior3.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...-Interior2.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...T-Interior.jpg

Just don't look on stitches on foreground, the depth of field effect is ruining them. Maybe you can try to reach to ask for informations, I think he will help you. I really don't know / don't remember how he did them.

I also saw (here I think) fully modeled stitches, it's like fully modeling a tire sidewall : it take loooooong !

[Niray]

http://www.smcars.net/forums/tutoria...tudio-max.html

Here is the thread