Materials for drum shells
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hey, im looking for some textures to go on some drums that im going to make in SU (im a drummer, 4 years of practice). i would really appreciate it if someone who knows drums as well as i do would help me out here, but anyone else is fine too.
i also have another question. how do i get the texture on the drum without stretching it. like when i project a texture on to a cylender, the edges get all streched. in my 4 years of drumming, i have never seen a drumset finish do this, nor would i like to. the only method i can thik of to solve this is to devide the shell into 4ths and project the texture seperatly onto each section.incase you didnt know, the shell of a drum is the part made out of wood (sometimes acrylic).
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Im guessing your going for a naturaul wood finish rather than perspex or painted wood (both much easier to texture, of course
)My suggestion would be to turn on hidden geometry and paint the texture on to each individual face of the drumshell. This should give you a lot of control over hats goig where and should help prevent the stretching.
p.s. you can get loads of brilliant wood textures from a site called CG textures. Have a look in the fine timber/fine wood category, i think youll find plenty of suitable textures.
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thanks for the reply remus. i want it to look like one continious peice of wood, witch you above method would not produce. i will keep trying though.
any idea on how to do a sparkle finish like this one: http://www.pearldrum.com/07-edit-site/combo/masters-custom-mast.jpg
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Not really sure howd youd get the sparkly bits in the material, but itd be pretty straight forward to get the gradient (just make a gradient in an image editor then project it on to the drum shell.
I suppose if you were really keen, you could do the sparkles as physical geometry and than paint the with a shiny material, not sure how good it would look though.
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Did a quick test with the projected textures and i dont think it turned out too bad.
The seam is very obvious though, if you had a bit of a think aobut it im sure you could work out a way to stop this, though.
If none of this works you could always wait for whaats new UV mpping plugin, apparently its going to do cylindrical mapping...
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thanks remus, this really helped. and i wouldn't mind having the above finsich on my drumset. just make it shiny.
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No problem, although i tihnk you'll be better of using whaats UV mapping ruby now, hould give you much better results. As for the shinyness you'll either need to find a texture thats got the shinyness baked in to it or render the drum set to make it look shiny. SU doesnt do reflection.
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i know. btw, for future refference, the insides of the shells are ussualy not finished aside from a coat of varnish or laquer.
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I shouldve known youd know
And cheers for the pointer, i hadnt realised that before. -
I attach a couple texture images that strike me as being kind-a drum like. I don't know who originally made them. I found them on a sharing site years ago.
Regards, Ross
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