[HELP] Modelling a zippo texture

[daniel_nieto]

hi, im doing my last project, a zippo lighter, i already made some progress, but im stuck modelling or/and texturing the "circle that makes friction with the little thing which makes the spark so the flame can lit" hahaha i dont know what it's name in english, (or in spanish).... here, you will spot it fast...

this is what should look like

they look like spikes, some time ago somewhere i found a tutorial on how to do the texture of a jack plug,you know what i mean, but i cant find it, if someone has a clue on how to do it, please tell me!

[Deus]

Dont do a texture. Just use a displacement or bump map that has ridges that look like this

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[CTZn]

I would use TopMod to model that;

Create a cylinder in your usual 3d package, with enough subdivisions so each face looks square. Make sure the cylinder has caps or topMod2 may crash (it did for me, I believe that's because I first tried with an open surface, that is without cylinder caps).

Ok you have loaded the cylinder in TopMod, go straight to Remeshing > 4-Conversion > Stellate with Edge Removal, export the resulting mesh back in you modeling app.

Delete the irrelevant faces (from former caps. In result image I didn't), extrude faces collectively once inwards, then once upwards.

result

[StompinTom]

check this out.
simple cylinder, use more sides for smaller spikes, less sides for bigger, chunkier spikes.

subdivide the edges so that you end up with squares.

set the pivot to Individual Centers, that will make your faces scale independently of eachother.

extrude all the faces individually however much you want the spikes to protrude.

scale down to 0.

remove doubles.

repeat ad nauseum.

[PureSpider]

Looking @ my zippo I think it more looks like this...

[StompinTom]

just gotta bevel the edges between the pyramids then.

[PureSpider]

The "things" are actually "negative" pyramids as the go down instead of up
But yes thats the way I've done it, beveled the edges between the pyramids.