Roleplaying
We have spent the past days making floor tiles, but what is Dungeon & Dragons without dungeons? Like Star Wars without stars, or chocolate chip cookies without chocolate. So, we’re gonna make a cave tile today.
First, we’re gonna render a cave floor texture and a cave wall texture using FilterForge. The floor texture that looks like this is made with the beta version of FilterForge 2.0, which will ship closer to christmas I guess.
Using one of the new features of FilterForge 2.0, bombers, I created this rather good looking cave floor, or mine floor as it looks worked, you can almost see where the stone has been worked by the goblin slave miners.
Second, we need s cave wall, and I made a filter for the old FilterForge some time ago that suits this perfectly.
This cave wall looks full of mold, fungi and other interesting things normally found in DnD caves.
So, we start up OmniGraffle again, and put in the cave floor, make it 6×6 inches.
Then we use the poly-object and create what will be the wall. To align the outer straight lines, switch on the snap to grid and adjust those points. The default setting I happened to have was with shadows, so turn off any shadows, and any stroke.
Now I used yet another FilterForge filter that creates small fussy parts like this. I have described this in a previous post, but they are good to create walls and slopes with.
We create a new layer and make something like this using three different fuzzy pieces, and add additional shadows to them as well.
If you look close, you see that the shadow bleed out beyond out border, which makes the tile in need of trimming after rendering, this can be fixed by setting the canvas size in OmniGraffle to 6×6 inches, the same size as the tile we’re making.
Using the canvas size setup, select inches and then set the size.
Then, when exporting to a JPEG, choose Current Canvas, and it will be trimmed exactly.
So, this is out final piece, looks pretty nice. I think we make additional pieces tomorrow, like a small cave and a 10′ wide corridor.
Btw, here is the OmniGraffle file, tile-3.graffle.zip (5.7MB).
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