Roleplaying
So, today, more mapmaking, but we start out by creating a broken bench. I needed that for a map, and I thought that this was a good one to show.
First we fire up good old reliable Cheetah3D, as usual.You might have another 3D modeling application, use that one as the concepts are similar, just the way you do things are different.
We start out with a basic element, the cube.
We reshape the cube as a plank, and copy it so we got two planks. This is the base for out bench. Now, I said broken bench didn’t I? I know guys like IronDwarf back at the Dundjinni Forum, who can break things using Photoshop, but this is me, and I am a drawing illiterate , so I use 3D -apps to break it.
Plank one, I will break using a boolean operation, I created a stair object i Cheetah3D, and then I subtract that one from one of my planks, like this.
This will give it a rough edge. The second plank, I distort by selecting a bunch of points, then move then, like the following pictures shows.
Select some points.
Drag them out, then repeat this for more points, like this.
And you get a plank that looks broken.
The edge that was but by the boolean operations, also needs a little love, and they looks like this when we are done with them.
Now we got two plank parts, and are ready to build our bench. So, we create a few more cubes and reshape them for the legs, and place them like this.
I do not care about polygon count, this is for rendering, not live, so real 3D pros might say this is stupid, but I do things they way you would build them for real, which makes them look real.
Now, we fire up my favorite texture making tool, FilterForge, to render some nice wood textures.I use a texture that someone else made this time, rustic wood, as it has the touch I like for this bench.
Here are the texture map and the bump map I used, I scaled them down 50% and reduced size, but they are still really usable. So, how does it look now? We group each halt so we can adjust it.
Here are the two broken bench pieces, enjoy.
Tomorrow, we will continue with the last encounter.
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