{"id":1607,"date":"2009-11-29T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2009-11-29T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T06:26:24","slug":"making-a-mundane-hammer-the-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Making a mundane hammer – the handle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to this episode of making mundane tools for the decoration of you battle maps. We will continue today with the hammer shaft.<\/p>\n

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So, start up Cheetah3D<\/a> again, open the file from yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"ha07\"<\/a><\/p>\n

First, we create a cylinder, and shape it a little oval, and size it as a shaft.<\/p>\n

\"ha08\"<\/a>\"ha09\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, using first that Bulge, then the Taper tool, we change the shape from machine made to hand made. Remember, there are no machines in most fantasy settings.<\/p>\n

So, we need a texture, wood texture for the shaft, an I just happened to have been looking at a hammer I have at home. The hammer really belongs to my son, and he got that for his 1st birthday from a friend of \u00a0mine (DM Thomas), as every kid needs a real hammer, not plastic toys from China.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, that hammer had a hard wood shaft with a very special texture that I don’t have anywhere, so lest make one in FilterForge<\/a>, what else?<\/p>\n

\"ha10\"<\/a>\"ha11\"<\/a><\/p>\n

First, we create a 3-Color Gradient<\/strong>, and set that up like this. As you can see, this leaves very little settings for the basic color, but we just want this to look a certain way.<\/p>\n

\"ha12\"<\/a>\"ha13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then add a Cells Noise<\/strong>, and set it up this way. We’re gonna use this for two things. if you remember making the chopped wood texture, you will recognize the next step.<\/p>\n

\"ha14\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An Elevation Gradient<\/strong>, that we connect as follows. Output from the 3-Color Gradient<\/strong> to the Gradient<\/em> input, and output from the Cells Noise<\/strong> to the Elevation<\/em> input.<\/p>\n

But we’re not stopping there yet.<\/p>\n

\"ha15\"<\/a>\"ha23\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, add a Threshold<\/strong> component, and connect the output from the Cells Noise<\/strong> to the Source<\/em> input of the Threshold<\/strong> component, and set it up like this, the very hard filtering is the basis for this little trick.<\/p>\n

\"ha17\"<\/a>\"ha16\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, set the Result<\/strong> component to Surface<\/em>, and connect the output from the Elevation Gradient<\/strong> to the Surface Color<\/em> input, and the output from the Threshold<\/strong> component to the Height<\/em> input. Set the Reflectivity slider to about 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"ha20\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the output. I did rotate it 90 degrees to make it better for the shaft in the direction the shaft is in the Cheetah3D.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the hammer, as a jpeg,<\/p>\n

\"ha22\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and here it is as a 300dpi png for your favorite mapping software, ready to use.<\/p>\n

\"hammer-new.4e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet another fun day is coming to an end. So, what will I do tomorrow? After reading Jonathan Roberts fantastic series at newbiedm<\/a>, I got an idea, on how to make some of those neat tricks he does in Gimp, in OmniGraffle, so you never know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to this episode of making mundane tools for the decoration of you battle maps. We will continue today with the hammer shaft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}