{"id":5530,"date":"2010-10-30T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T05:09:15","slug":"making-pallets-for-props-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5530","title":{"rendered":"Making pallets for props &#8211; part two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You guessed right, we will continue to make pallets today, more pallets and texture them too, I hope. As I said yesterday, new tools open new possibilities and I am that kind of person that strive to use, abuse and master whatever is tossed at me. If not for any other real reason that to say &#8220;<strong>I did it!<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0201.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We start by cutting pieces of the texture we downloaded yesterday, I will use them as individual textures. Experienced 3D artists might laugh at this idea, but I have m reasons. Here are a few pieces. I cut them using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemkesoft.com\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\">GraphicConverter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5531\" title=\"pl0201\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5532\" title=\"pl0202\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5533\" title=\"pl0203\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, adding theses textures to the different pieces of the model produced this nice pallet. I spent some time picking different textures for different planks to avoid the artificial look. This is a preview render in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/i\/software\/carrara8\/carrara_pro?_m=d\" target=\"_blank\">Carrara 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5534\" title=\"pl0204\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a top down render. If that isn&#8217;t photo realistic, what is?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5535\" title=\"pl0205\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I copied the project and started to convert it to a model three pallet. First, I lift up the top layer and lower the bottom layer, one inch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5536\" title=\"pl0206\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I divided the long blocks into chunks, but shortening the blocks, then just copy them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" title=\"pl0207\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I added the extra plank on each side of the block rows, and here we are, looking good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5538\" title=\"pl0208\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a top down render of this model too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5539\" title=\"pl0209\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pl0209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, we finished two pallets today, but tomorrow is another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guessed right, we will continue to make pallets today, more pallets and texture them too, I hope. As I said yesterday, new tools open new possibilities and I am that kind of person that strive to use, abuse and master whatever is tossed at me. If not for any other real reason that to [&hellip;]<\/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":[39,16],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-carrara-8","tag-graphicconverter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}