Post by Chicklet45368 on Mar 9, 2017 11:24:14 GMT -5
Hi all,
I'm still so very new to blender, but what I'm trying to do is create a chain to suspend a ladder from the ceiling. I wanted to add a couple of hanging lights from the ladder as well, so I didn't really want to try and make individual chain links to form the chain in order to keep the poly count down.
So, what I thought I could do was use a chain texture that has an alpha on a 3 sided mesh, or something like that, to create the illusion of a chain without actually having a physical 3D chain. Since it's going on the ceiling and will be fairly small I don't think the detail needs to be perfect.
Is this possible? Or am I going about it wrong?
If this would work, how do I make each side be transparent in blender so that I can add my alpha texture to it in S4S?
Thanks for all your help and input! Much appreciated!
- Chicklet
I'm still so very new to blender, but what I'm trying to do is create a chain to suspend a ladder from the ceiling. I wanted to add a couple of hanging lights from the ladder as well, so I didn't really want to try and make individual chain links to form the chain in order to keep the poly count down.
So, what I thought I could do was use a chain texture that has an alpha on a 3 sided mesh, or something like that, to create the illusion of a chain without actually having a physical 3D chain. Since it's going on the ceiling and will be fairly small I don't think the detail needs to be perfect.
Is this possible? Or am I going about it wrong?
If this would work, how do I make each side be transparent in blender so that I can add my alpha texture to it in S4S?
Thanks for all your help and input! Much appreciated!
- Chicklet
