{"id":5314,"date":"2010-10-15T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:09:20","slug":"making-some-railroad-tracks-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5314","title":{"rendered":"Making some railroad tracks – part one"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’m working on the adventure “Wicked Times: London Calling” for Operation:Fallen Reich<\/a>, which has the London Underground as a place of fun, I needed some new railroad tracks. I’ve used Carls FilterForge filter before, but I though it was time to make them i 3D.<\/p>\n

So, we start up Cheetah3D<\/a>, and make a Box, that we flatten like a slice of a cube.<\/p>\n

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We use the Taper tool on the block to change its shape a little.<\/p>\n

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Now we create a Cylinder and make it a little oval, before we place it on top if the block.<\/p>\n

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We then join the objects, and then we create a box that surrounds it, almost, and use the Boolean intersect operation.<\/p>\n

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Now we add another box, make it flat and place it below the current object, and join the together with a Boolean.<\/p>\n

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A slice of railway tracks. Now we stretch the rail, copy it and place the two copies side by side. We then create a stretched box and use an Array to multiply it, wo got sleepers.<\/p>\n

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We use a built in steel texture on the rails, and a modified built in wood texture for the sleepers.<\/p>\n

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Now, all we need are nails, big railroad nails, so we create a box, make it about half height and set division to 4.<\/p>\n

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We Catmull-Clark subdivide it, and place it in position, using the Array to multiply it.<\/p>\n

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And here it is, a railroad track made in Cheetah3D.<\/p>\n

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This looks great, too great, we need it to be more worn and rusty. Stay tuned for the next episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’m working on the adventure “Wicked Times: London Calling” for Operation:Fallen Reich, which has the London Underground as a place of fun, I needed some new railroad tracks. I’ve used Carls FilterForge filter before, but I though it was time to make them i 3D.<\/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":[12,37],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-ofr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}