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Jan

by admin

That mill was great to make. The internet is so full of so many great picture that can be inspiration to your work. Today, the task is a sieve for the miller.

I found this when I googled for a medieval sieve.

So, let’s first try to make the weave, which I found was hard to get good in Cheetah3D. It was either to complex, which caused Cheetah to crash, or looked awful. So, then I remembered that Cheetah 5.x now have a better support for transparent textures rendered on transparent backgrounds. This was a problem in the old 4.x.

FilterForge has many wood weave filters, so I used one and made this texture. (This one is non transparent jpeg as the png-version is over 300kb, too much load for my line to handle).

This might do it, some artistic freedom can be allowed don’t you think?

Now, we create a circular plane in Cheetah3D, and add the texture to that, and enable transparency from alpha channel.

We now create a tube, and make it very thin, and size it as the sides of the sieve.

We need a light wood texture for that, so we use Wood in FilterForge to get that texture, looks like this.

Now, we just have to add some handles, and we make them using a torus ring that we size to ythe size of a handle, according to the original picture.

We then create a box, to cut away the bottom half.

After a Boolean remove, we add another wood texture to the handle, so it will look more distinct, the cottage wood we often use, as it is a very good texture. We also create two small torus rings, and use the rope texture, to hold the handles.

Then we group the handle and the ropes, copy the group and move the copy to the other side, for the other handle.

And here it is, with drop shadow added in OmniGraffle.

So tomorrow, we finish up the millers market stand, using some items from FutureBoy and DragonWolf at the Dundjinni forum, two very talented artists.

Tags: , Filed Under Mapmaking, Tools of the trade 

Comments

  1. Ridwan Fauzi on 08.02.2019

    what the function this tool on your picture? thanks

  2. admin on 08.02.2019

    A sieve, to separate the milled grain from the non eatable parts.

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