Spiralled Tape

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I’ve been searching around mutliple forums now and I cant seem to find how this is accomplised anywhere.

Basically what I have is a handle of whatever type (Sword,Baseball bat,Knife) and I want to give it the effect of looking like it is wrapped in tape. Now One Way I Find to do this was to create a custom alpha with feathered edges on both sides and hard edges on the top and than go up the mesh and spiral as i go along. Is this the best way to go about doing this or how has anyybody else been getting this same type of effect.

By the Way hello all this is my first post although I’ve been hanging around for a long time now.

Chris SPrance

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There are probably tons of ways everyone has done this, but from my experience - the most tedious way is actually the best.

What I did then was:

1. Go to Stroke pallete, turn on Lazy Mouse, play with the settings until satisfied with it. Lazysmooth usually ended up on some lower setting than the default.
2. Deselect (don’t get scared now) any alpha you got.
3. Mold:
   Use the layer brush on low Z Intensity making short layered strokes of tape. Make sure to completely cover the element with a layer of stroke, leaving small cavities between segments. Go a little random. Maybe, make a second layer.
   Use the standard brush in Zsub-mode for “crevices” in-between tape segments and in Zadd-mode to “connect” layer segments.
   Use the pinch brush to make tape/tapelike-cloth edges more prominent, continuous, and rigid.

I made sure to use lazy mouse on various settings with almost these tools.

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Hey Thanks alot man I’ll try that when I get home I completely spaced the whole lazymouse and lazy smooth thing. I will most deffinetly try that and post up the results a little later tonight hopefully thanks for the help.

Chris Sprance

P.S. if anyone has any other ways the more the merrier I love the ability of having an almost infinite amount of ways to do one thing.