{"id":2268,"date":"2010-01-11T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2010-01-11T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T06:29:38","slug":"mundane-things-a-village-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"Mundane things &#8211; a village gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re gonna make a gate for the village, a gate with stone poles and an iron gate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We start up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheetah3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheetah3D<\/a>, and create a box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2276\" title=\"wg01\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, we shape it more like a pole, like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2275\" title=\"wg02\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We copy it, and shape a hat to the pole using the copy, like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg02a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2279\" title=\"wg02a\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg02a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, we create a texture, stone like using the built in texture generator in Cheetah. The texture is stonelike, and the filter looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2278\" title=\"wg2b\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, we create a cylinder, and we add a sphere on top of that cylinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2274\" title=\"wg03\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2273\" title=\"wg04\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We now create a cone, that we shape thin like a blade, and add to the top of the pole, over the sphere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2272\" title=\"wg05\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Array tool, we create multiple copies of our gate pole, with a constant distance between each object.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2271\" title=\"wg06\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We give the poles an old iron texture, and we add a few cross bars so the gate wont collapse. Remember, this should look real, even if it is just bits and pixels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2270\" title=\"wg07\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is our gate, ready to protect helpless villagers from the raving hoards of orcs, or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2277\" title=\"wg08\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And an action shot from Westport village.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2280\" title=\"wg09\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wg09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the wall has been engulfed by Keplis vines \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re gonna make a gate for the village, a gate with stone poles and an iron gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","tag-cheetah3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}