Tire Tracks

[HenkDawson]

Hi All, I'm looking for a way to make tire tracks. Not a bump map but a simple line showing where the wheels are - as if the wheels were painting the ground. Any ideas? Thanks, Henk

[shrox]

What version of LW do you have? LW v.7 and before has an example with a Hummer leaving tracks across the desert floor, I don't know if v.8 has it, but v.9 apparently does not.

[HenkDawson]

I'm using 8.5

Seems like a common thing to want to do -- I just can't find any tutorials or anything on it.

[Sekhar]

You could select all the polys on the tread that are going to touch the floor and make a cylindrical UV map with them - you'd get a floor projection. To get the projection as polys, just export as EPS and import back.

[munky]

Hi There,

read this thread.

http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52348&highlight=tire

regards

paul

[HenkDawson]

Thanks for your help.

I've ordered Worley's acid - I'll give you a full report.

Thanks again

[SplineGod]

Hi Henk,
Dennis Pontonntier has a bunch of ported renderman shaders including one called marker pen which looks like what you need. The shaders are free. :)
http://perso.orange.fr/dpont/plugins/Textures.htm