How to Model Rubbish

blackdogsketch

You might want to experiment with the extension "CLF Greeble".

Greebles are random bumpiness in models. Think of large starships in sci-fi movies. All that crazy bumpiness and detail, from afar, is often created with greebles. A lot of apparent detail without large amounts of geometry. If your flyover is graphically conceptual, you can apply some random materializing. If it's photo-realistic, apply actual detailed aerial imagery of landfills.

Collage Architecture

You can use skatter to scatter garbage on any area in your control.

pilou

And Protrude by Jim for some many forms and levels!
Taper can be also applied!

JQL

You didnt create rubish pilou... Thats a city. Godzilla needs a meaner look. You'll get there with some work.

pilou

It's a city of rubish compressed!

HornOxx

@rich o brien said:

...Or even Thom's Bitmap to Height...

...which is what I tried - and it worked quite well even.
With Bitmap to Height I made some proxys which could be replaced then within the renderer (similar to scatter which I don´t have so far however).
This way is good for detailed views and should be complemented by scattered detail-rubbish additionally where needed.
In any case - all the methods mentioned here are useful in combination...

I would like to see any picture impression, which visuall result is striven by Bulbangs?

bulbangs

Thank you to all who responded. You've all helped immensely with your suggestions. Here is the first pass of the render. Still have a few adjustments to make but the client expressed satisfaction with the output.

HornOxx

@bulbangs said:

... Here is the first pass of the render...

... I can´t see anything

solo

@hornoxx said:

@bulbangs said:

... Here is the first pass of the render...

... I can´t see anything

Neither can I, I was anticipating saying "it's rubbish"

bulbangs

Oops thought it attached my bad

HornOxx

wow - a great and "terrible" scene at the same time.
How did you proceed now?

bulbangs

Modeled the huge pile using sand box and textured it with a map. I then used skatter to add thousands of objects to litter the surface to create the top layer trash.

genma saotome

Create rubbish? There are a few of my earliest models....

Seriously, it's going to be the textures that solve your problem. I did a model of a recycling metals company and I found some very useful (free) textures at textures.com. I suggest you check there.