{"id":5327,"date":"2010-10-17T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:25:24","slug":"making-some-railroad-tracks-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5327","title":{"rendered":"Making some railroad tracks – part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we got some great railroad tracks that we want to make even better. Today we will do that. I think we can make them look really great.<\/p>\n

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So,we start our session today in FilterForge<\/a>, to create some new textures. First, using my old iron texture filter, we create a rusty iron texture.<\/p>\n

Here is the texture map.<\/p>\n

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And here is the Normal map (OpenGL type as we’re gonna use it in Cheetah3D) This is a pain as Carrara 8 and DAZ 3D Studio uses Direct-X Normal maps, so I need to remember what kind of map to render, and when I make an object and then move it to another application, I need to render a new Normal map. Hmm, maybe create a filter to transform a Normal map to the other model?<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Now, we need a good wood for the sleepers, so I use my “little old cottage” filter. Here is the wood texture.<\/p>\n

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And here is the Normal map.<\/p>\n

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Now, we add those in Cheetah3D<\/a> to the objects.<\/p>\n

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As you see, now the tracks looks totally unused, they need to be smooth and shiny on the top. I select the top polygons and set the modified steel texture there with some distortions in it. I’m also playing with rail positions as you can see.<\/p>\n

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Now it looks like real railroad tracks that are in use. I have to check how much they should overlap to get a good distance between the parts.<\/p>\n

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I reverted to a normal positions, where both rails have the same position, and here it is the track piece.<\/p>\n

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This one looks pretty good I think. I left it without shadows as you would probably want to add shadows after you have made something with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we got some great railroad tracks that we want to make even better. Today we will do that. I think we can make them look really great.<\/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],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","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=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}