{"id":3322,"date":"2010-03-22T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:41:43","slug":"the-replication-of-greytales-metal-box-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"The replication of greytale’s metal box – part one"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been working with my upcoming product, The Neverending Market streets<\/strong>, I’ve realized the need for more metal boxes. The metal box that everyone uses as a cash box for merchants is a metal box by greytale, and you will see it on almost every map with a store or a merchant, even Cisticola uses it. I’ve decided I’ll try to make a new set of metal boxes, and believe me when I say that this is by far the trickiest map related task I’ve assigned to myself.<\/p>\n

This is the metal box made by the grandmaster of items, greytale at the nook<\/a>, this is my raw model for what I am trying to achieve, with emphasize on trying.<\/p>\n

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First, blinded by my success with the tavern tables, I decided I’ll try to whip up a filter in FilterForge<\/a> to do this. After fighting with this for a while, this is what I came up with, and I was less that satisfied. I would have let it do a year ago, but now I have set much higher standards.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, in disappointment I turned my focus to Cheetah3D<\/a>, as one of my main issues here was getting the metal right. I decided I’ll make a quick box, and render it using HDRI mapping and reflections, using two reflective textures with some bump maps.<\/p>\n

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OK, they look metallic, a little too metallic, more like a car hood than a metal box in a fantasy shop, so I decided I’ll do some fixing up in OmniGraffle<\/a>, maybe that would satisfy my rather picky mood. I decided to use one of the dirt textures I’ve done in FilterForge that I’ve been using quite a lot on maps to dirt floors.<\/p>\n

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Then I created a polygon for the top of the metal boxes. Working in a large scale for this works much better in OmniGraffle, so instead of shrinking everything down first, then apply and modifications. I always try to work with the images in about 800×800 pixels or even more, doing scale down to 50×40 or something (as Dundjinni has 40 pixels \/ feet in scale) when I export it.<\/p>\n

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Now, I turn off the stroke(border) on the polygon, and then set the dirt image (as transparent png) as the fill image. This is how I pick the part of the image I want. Then I copy the polygon, and use another part, until I’ve put enough dirt in the lid.<\/p>\n

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This is one of the metal boxes in OmniGraffle with some layers of dirt added to it.<\/p>\n

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And this is the other box when it is done.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, looks ok, but I am still not satisfied, not really, no wow-feeling yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been working with my upcoming product, The Neverending Market streets, I’ve realized the need for more metal boxes. The metal box that everyone uses as a cash box for merchants is a metal box by greytale, and you will see it on almost every map with a store or a merchant, even Cisticola […]<\/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":[12,13,10],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","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=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}