Engraving

[asus127]

Im after engraving some text into a wall, but every time i go to do it
for sum reason or other it comes up like this when rendering

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ers/Image1.jpg

after creating some text im going to bevel then boolean, tried extrude then boolean but still no joy

Anyone give me some advice ?

Many Thanks

[minimus]

have you tried to subdivide the wall that your carving inn to? to give it more polys to work on?

[asus127]

how do i do that mate ?

[minimus]

you can tesselate the wall with a tesselate modifyer. or simply select all edges around and hit conect and make more polygones. you can aslow use turbosmooth modifyer but then you need to chamfer the edges to keep the hard edges.

how much experience do you have in 3ds max from before?

[asus127]

ye i no my way about it, but this engraving business has puzzled me

[minimus]

ye i know bolean and carving stuff can be a pain. whats important is to clean up the mesh after you have carved, that way you prevent bugs like the black pices as inn you picture.

[asus127]

i`ll have to have a go later, how would i clean up the mesh ?

[minimus]

manualy. after a bolean there is often edges and verts on the wrong track. make sure every vert have a edge going to them and try even out hte polys so you gett quads....a bit hard to explain.

[asus127]

sorted it thanks mate, added a few more lines in the box n its seems to have turned out better, ( still not perfect )
But its fine for now, thanks a bunch