Roleplaying
Now I will show something that we hopefully have played, as it will be a spoiler, or could be. We’re gonna make two things today, and I will try not to spoil too much if we haven’t played this yet. I need something strange, occult or magical, some kind of bowl with a burning magical fire in it.
I needed some wall mounted lights for the map, electric lamps that look modern but still not too modern. I think they look too modern for 1930, but I wasn’t around at the time and finding picture of wall mounted lamps from that time was really hard.
For a map I’m working on, I need a small ventilation tower, is tower the right word? Anyway, something that sits on the ground enabling air to move down to the underground tunnels. I’ve decided to give Carrara 8 a real go today, and make an object using it from scratch.
All you who have followed this site for a while know one thing, I am really bad at drawing, really bad. Actually so bad that I will never show anything hand drawn here ever. That what brought me into computer aided map making, somewhere back in 1985, when we made the first dungeons using a Mac 128k and MacPaint. Time flies.
So we got some great railroad tracks that we want to make even better. Today we will do that. I think we can make them look really great.
As I’m working on the adventure “Wicked Times: London Calling” for Operation:Fallen Reich, which has the London Underground as a place of fun, I needed some new railroad tracks. I’ve used Carls FilterForge filter before, but I though it was time to make them i 3D.
14
Oct
For a map I’m working on, I needed a nice wall to surround a garden, so I decided to make one.
Have you ever heard that line before from me?
So, I promised I’ll go back to Cheetah3D and see what we could render from there. Cheetah3D has a good renderer, and some nice capabilities, specially when rendering single objects like I do.
Today, we will focus on setting different textures for different planks on the picnic table in Carrara 8.
We’re back at the picnic table, and today We’re gonna solve the ugly texture problems, I hope. I think I could have usd some more intelligent mappings to make it less visible, but by having it visible it was ugly enough to be fixed.