Creating welds

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Hi All, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to create welds. I’m making a motorcycle and there are lots of places for welds, especially the frame. Picture below.

Doesn’t have to be perfect welds, but something to replicate it half decently.

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you could find a weld image and UV map it ?
or better make a 3D model in blender and bake it as a normal map add some specular !

here is example with simple image

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you could also use metaball for real 3D weld !

happy bl

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not perfect but for 3 minutes work its ok.

combination of rickyblender and mine and its perfect

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You guys are awesome!

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@ Love3D
have not seen that one and very interesting

do you have s mall sample file for this one

thanks

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no didnt saved it.
what do you want with such a simple file,it should not be hard for you to recreate it.

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sorry don’t see or understand what this particles system does !
but interested to understand how it works

thanks

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but is it done
add a line of verts then add a particles with objects ?

salut

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here createt another one weld.blend (1.62 MB)
its not perfect but i didnt aim at that.

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I see how it was done
added a mesh line then added particles with object on verts

you could even change the material / color for the weld!

very interesting one

thanks for sharing