{"id":5006,"date":"2010-09-13T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2010-09-09T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T08:33:38","slug":"making-a-crocodile-amulet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5006","title":{"rendered":"Making a crocodile amulet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we’re gonna make something I just wanted to hide from my players as this is crucial in the adventure Cricket & Crocodiles for Openration:Fallen Reic<\/a>h, and it would be a spoiler. We will make a crocodile amulet.<\/p>\n

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First, we’re gonna make a background for the relief, and I know this is a quick a dirty version, but it suits my purpose.<\/p>\n

We start OmniGraffle<\/a>, and create an oval. On that oval we stick a crocodile prop that I’ve downloaded from Dundjinni<\/a> before.<\/p>\n

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Now, we start FilterForge<\/a> and I will use a filter called Metalizer by Kochubey, but I modified it to honor the alpha channel. I render a texture map,<\/p>\n

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And a normal map<\/p>\n

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Now I start Cheetah3D<\/a> and create a circular plane.<\/p>\n

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We shape it as an oval, then we create a material from the texture and normal maps and apply those, setting it to use transparency from alpha channel.<\/p>\n

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Now we create a spline, click in a ring, and we then sweep the spline using a circle.<\/p>\n

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Now we place the spline together with the amulet, letting it pass through it.<\/p>\n

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We create a leather texture in FilterForge using one of Constantin Malkovs filters, showing below, but I did not upload the normal map as it was 177 kB due to the complexity of the leather surface.<\/p>\n

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After creating a new material and applying it to the string, we got this lovely amulet.<\/p>\n

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I hope you like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we’re gonna make something I just wanted to hide from my players as this is crucial in the adventure Cricket & Crocodiles for Openration:Fallen Reich, and it would be a spoiler. We will make a crocodile amulet.<\/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":[12,17,13,10],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-dundjinni","tag-filterforge","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","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=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}