Barber Pole Material

[Tom]

Hello Hashers-

 

In the past I have not gotten into designing materials much because there is a such a wealth of materials already available designed by others to choose from, and Dark Tree is also amazing...

 

...however I am trying to teach myself how to think like a Materials designer and I realized that I have no idea how to design a material for a barber pole.

The idea of designing a spiral color wrapping around a cylinder is beyond me..and designing two alternating colors is again bewildering.

 

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks!
Tom

[robcat2075]

Unfortunately, A:M does not include a "Spiral" combiner. There was a 3rd party set of materials that did include one. I forget the name.

 

A decal would be most likely solution here.

 

If I were determined to do it with a native materiel in A:M my first gambit would be to use the Extended Grid Turb combiner to put vertical stripes on a cylinder and then, with a Pose, twist the cylinder.

[johnl3d]

I tried making a tube and twisting it to wrap colors did not wrap it as tightly as your example but a possible solution

 

 

barberpole.mov

 

 

 

barberpole.prj

[Tom]

Thank you both for the reply! I appreciate you taking the time!

 

I thought I was a bit crazy not being able to do it with the native combiner material tools of AM but now I realize it really is a tricky problem.

 

Until I can find the spiral combiner...it looks like decals it is!

 

thanks again!

 

Tom

[robcat2075]

I'll note that Combiners typically have two attributes, one for each color.

 

One way to get more than two colors in a materiel (like Red White and Blue) is to change one of the two attributes into yet another Combiner. This is "nested" combiners.

[Tom]

Thanks Rob!

 

And Happy upcoming Birthday!

[robcat2075]

After sleeping on it, here is another approach... a stripe material on a flat card, warped with a Pose into a cylinder...

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltef9j7laxj453x/PoleWrapMP4_30.mov?dl=0

 

 

 

And Happy upcoming Birthday!

 

 

Thanks!

[Tom]

Thanks for the dropbox movie...that is a very interesting solution!

 

Thank you!

[NancyGormezano]

And I just know you need another solution (this was done for a rotating candy cane) that uses a decal

 

if you want more stripes on the pole - just increase the cylindrically applied image repeat count to 3 x 5 (or more, instead of the default 3 x1).

 

The image used for the decal can be painted to include multiple colors, just as long as the image is tileable horizontally.