{"id":2968,"date":"2010-02-24T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:15:49","slug":"making-a-bog-for-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=2968","title":{"rendered":"Making a bog for the swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m working on the adventure The heart of gods – part three<\/em>, and I need some interesting marshes or swamps. (Yes, you have it on you map players, Great Marshes<\/em> or did you miss that?)<\/p>\n

So, first, I was looking at the Dundjinni<\/a> Forum, and found a lot of great marsh stuff. Dead trees by DragonWolf, swamp textures by SuperCaptain and some more stuff.<\/p>\n

So, I went to CGTextures<\/a>, searching for a dead grass texture, and found this one, perfect.<\/p>\n

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So, now I start ImageSynth, to convert this photo into a seamless tiling texture. I just made a quick shot and it worked very well.<\/p>\n

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So, now I \u00a0needed some more edges, I’ve used my other ones so much on the Westport maps, I’m bored with them, so I browsed around on CGTextures and found this nice one in the grass section, a perfect edge, actually, I found two different ones.<\/p>\n

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Cutting pieces of that edge, and blurring the edges with my Cistinator filter in FilterForge<\/a>, I got a bunch of nice edge pieces to use.<\/p>\n

I start up OmniGraffle<\/a>, to create a full bog piece or a few there, instead of making each and everyone in Dundjinni. First, I draw a path to outline the bog, having 1″ grid in the background to get the size correct. Then I add the tiling grass texture to it.<\/p>\n

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Now, I create a new layer, and add all the edge pieces, rotate them and mix and match to ge a nice look.<\/p>\n

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Now, I render it out, then I run a small FilterForge filter to make the edges a little less opaque, so they hopefully look a little submerged in the filthy swamp water.<\/p>\n

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Here is one, as JPEG on white.<\/p>\n

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And here is another one.<\/p>\n

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And this is a little piece of the swamp map, made in Dundjinni, using some dundjinni items as well as many other items, and the swamp floor by SuperCaptain.<\/p>\n

I really hope this scares the shit out of my players \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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