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Nov

by admin

I hope you liked the idea of making a castle wall as much I did, it was really fun to do, but most walls usually have grass, not beach gravel on the outside, and today we’re gonna correct that little issue.

So, we first go scrutinizing the texture library at CGTextures for a nice piece of grass, good I didn’t do a freudian typo there. I found this one, well kept grass.

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So I start up ImageSynth once again, and let it create a seamless texture. If you do not have ImageSynth, there are many already tiled sets at CGTextures to choose from, but I like to go my own route, as always.

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This is the tiled result, looks good and very natural to me. Now we make a copy of the .graffle file from yesterday, castlewall-1.graffle.zip, and open that one in OmniGraffle.

Remove the stones and watery stones, set the canvas size to 4″ x 4″. Move the stone wall texture and the shadow overlays so the wall will cover half the piece. Remove the beach textures and add a piece of grass  instead, using the OmniGraffle tiler to tile the grass image.

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So, we did a castle wall with grass, but we cannot really quit now can we? What about a corner?

So, rearrange the stone so it covers only two squares in the lower right corner, and the grass to cover the whole canvas, but below the stone. Now, we need corner cut shadows, and you might remember how to do that, but I tell you anyway. Use the poly-object and make something like the white poly-object on the screen capture below, and use the shadow fill I’ve shown before.

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You now make it a little shorter, make a copy and rotate it 90 degrees. Do the same for the outer shadows as well.

Now copy the other small shadows used to simulate the parapet, and rotate those 90 degrees, and make the corner one block.

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And look, we got a corner for our castle wall. This was a good day don’t you think?

And the OmniGraffle-file for the corner: castlewall-5.graffle.zip.

The observant reader might see that file numbering is not consistent, and that has to do with a strange time-space continuum problem too difficult to explain to mere mortals.


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Comments

  1. mariusz on 01.26.2011

    Hi there,

    Thanks for putting this online. It works great.
    Good job and thank you alot.

    Greetigs, Mariusz

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