{"id":1993,"date":"2009-12-16T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2009-12-16T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:42:10","slug":"making-a-river-canyon-in-dundjinni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Making a river canyon in Dundjinni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we’re gonna break to something very different. No more map props today, but I am gonna show you a technique based on the almost classical cisticola walls that I have shown before. We’re gonna make a truly natural looking canyon with running water.<\/p>\n

First, we scrutinize CGTextures<\/a> for some great looking pictures to use as a base for our work. We need foamy water and an edge.<\/p>\n

I found four different pictures, two of each kind, that was perfect for what I am going to do with them. These are scaled down, the original ones are about 3000×2000 pixels.<\/p>\n

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\"rc3\"<\/a>\"rc4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, now we cut smaller pieces of the pictures. We cut about six or seven different water pieces, and dirt pieces, and about ten different pieces of the edge.<\/p>\n

Now, we run one of my home brewed filters for FilterForge<\/a>, and blur edges of a picture and give it a pretty randomized edge.<\/p>\n

This is how the different pieces look, a small pick of each type displayed here, against white background, as transparent png images are were bandwidth consuming.<\/p>\n

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Some water overlays<\/p>\n

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Some stone overlays<\/p>\n

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And some of the important edge overlay.<\/p>\n

Now, we start Dundjinni, and just fill an area with your favorite forest foliage, and then draw a about 10 feet (2 squares) wide riverbed, using another stony ground texture. I used these two, with 6-8 variations in each set, showing just one of each here. Those were made using ImageSynth<\/a> as I have described before.<\/p>\n

\"rc8\"<\/a>\"rc9\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One riverbed watery stones texture and one wood ground with flowers and dirt. I also added a few stones to the ground of the canyon, to give it a more wild look.<\/p>\n

OK, now, we start to build the canyon. first, we add the dirt overlays on the “wall” of the canyon on both sides. making them as a cover object, we can just Control-Click to get a random item from the set, at a random rotation, exactly what we need.<\/p>\n

Then, we do the same thing with the water overlays, in at the bottom of the canyon. Now, we carefully place the edge overlays, aligning them so we build a nice edge. This is the most time consuming part of the whole operation, but worth every second when you see the result.<\/p>\n

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This is the result, and it is built using Dundjinni. I really hope you liked this, cause I do.<\/p>\n

Now you may wonder what prevented me from doing this is OmniGraffle<\/a>, nothing. But I just felt that I should do this one in Dundjinni, and mostly because Bogie, who won the last map competition at the Dundjinni forums, selected that the next theme is waterfront, and this is a little start for my waterfront map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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