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Hello, how can I model a text "recessed" in a mesh like in this image? Using booleans would be very complicate to do!
Sorry for the stupid question (not for me, though).

Isn't that just a bump-map ?
Otherwise I don't see a simple way to achieve this, except using boleans.

drBouvierLeduc wrote:Isn't that just a bump-map ?
Otherwise I don't see a simple way to achieve this, except using boleans.

Yes, maybe bump-map is the only alternative. I should study more about these techniques...

with new 2.43 version you can displace it as well

indeed i used bumpmapping.

Thank you very much for the replies!

I need some tips about making (text) bump-maps. I've tried writing in white the word "indigo" in a square, black, image and then using it as a bump-map with a "b" factor 0.001 on a gold cube. Here's the result:





As you can see the text is not realistic, you can't compare it with that of manitwo's image
I've tried with "b" equal to 0.01, 0.0001 but in the first case it seems to "sharp", in the second there's no difference with the "b = 0.001" image.
My conclusion is that probably is my bump-map image that is wrong; what should I do?

@ manitwo: can you show me the bump-map you've used to make the can picture?

SmartDen wrote:with new 2.43 version you can displace it as well

Thank you, I'm studying that way too!

two advices : use a rather high resolution image (>1000 x 1000), and blur it a little, avoid pure black and white

Thank you very much again! I have another question: is it possible to export displacement maps into Indigo? It seems not... I have read this guide to learn the basics of displacement (the site is unavaiable at the moment that I'm writing this post) and I can achieve very nice results but I'm not able to use Indigo. Can you give me some tips if there is the possibility to use displacement also with Indigo?

Yummie, vanilla!!!!

Just bake the displacement map onto a mesh, silly

zsouthboy wrote:Just bake the displacement map onto a mesh, silly

Can you tell me how to do it?

Add a displace modifier and use the image as a texture when you apply it.

Kachu wrote:Add a displace modifier and use the image as a texture when you apply it.

Thank you very much!!!