{"id":1142,"date":"2009-10-27T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T06:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2009-10-27T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T06:36:23","slug":"making-a-house-in-omnigraffle-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Making a house in OmniGraffle – part one"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we make another break in the Marda-Zam series to create a house using OmniGraffle<\/a>.
\nWe’ve used it before and I have shown some of the tricks I use, but now we’re gonna do some nifty things with it.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So, below is the house I am building for a map. A stone house with wooden floor, a typical classy farmer house in some village.<\/p>\n

\"housetut-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve used my Porch Construction kit to construct the porch, and I’ve used ImageSynth<\/a> to create some of the images I use as textures. Original images is used with courtesy of Bogie at the Dundjinni<\/a> forum.\u00a0The wood textures are all rendered using FilterForge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have done some wall outlines using the polygon tool, you can see the outline. Now I need a wall to go inwards, so I just add a few dots to the polygon object by double clicking the line, like this:<\/p>\n

\"housetut-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In this closeup you can see the four new dots, or vertices on the polygon object. I now drag those new dots, the two in the middle to the left, and I get a wall section in that direction. I use a grid of 16 units (one 16th inch per gridsegment), so I can make the walls straight.<\/p>\n

\"housetut-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, here is the wall segment I just did. Now we do the same thing with the other wall.<\/p>\n

\"housetut-4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I make four new vertices, and drag the two in the middle downwards, and adjust the other two as corners so the walls keep straight.<\/p>\n

\"housetut-5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And there it is. Then I add shadows using a polygon, and linear two color fill from black 100% opacity to black 0% opacity, then you can tweak the blending so it looks good. To get the illusion of higher walls, you just make the shadow wider.<\/p>\n

\"house-6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The color setup controller i OmniGraffle.<\/p>\n

So, now you can build houses in OmniGraffle, but we will continue decorate this house, render some stuff, make textures, this will be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, we make another break in the Marda-Zam series to create a house using OmniGraffle. We’ve used it before and I have shown some of the tricks I use, but now we’re gonna do some nifty things with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}