I found that I should take this idea even further, so I rendered more textures using FilterForge<\/a>, and assembled texture packs in OmniGraffle<\/a>. Bump map and Diffuse maps this time. I then used a FilterForge quick filter to create a few color modifications of the texture map, three to be exact. This time, the goal is a crate that can be a DAZ Studio<\/a> Prop. So I started by making blocks and planks in Carrara 8<\/a>, and creating the shader (texture). Here is what the default mapping looks like.<\/p>\n Here I’ve selected the edge of a block, two polygons, for mapping.<\/p>\n Placing those blocks again, using cubicle blocks this time.<\/p>\n Now I select a block, then select Box projection and the spread out layout. \u00a0I also disconnect the polygons from each other. Doing that you loose the automatic texture wrapping in corners, but that doesn’t matter in this case .<\/p>\n Here are the edge being mapped of a plank, and you can see the edge of the block there behind, looking real.<\/p>\n Ans this is the mapping of a plank. I realized I should have made the squares even bigger, 1200×1200 wasn’t really good enough, but I do that next time. (I can hear you screaming no next time!<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n And here it is, a preview render from Carrara 8.<\/p>\n Now, I did get Poser from my dear friend and nerd, who bought two, not one license by accident, he claims. So, making Poser .pp2 files i DAZ Studio is a real pain. Someone made a script for it, but it has compatibility issues with newer DAZ Studio versions. But Poser, the root of the format does that with ease. I will show that (I forgot to screen shot that, I was in ecstatic when it worked), but here is a proof that it works.<\/p>\n The prop picker from DAZ Studio, and you can see three pallets and two crates. Now a quick scene build.<\/p>\n This looks pretty damn good I think! This lighting is just a quicky, so I never adjusted render quality and so, but it works.<\/p>\n And, ome more thing…<\/p>\n There they are, installers for my first DAZ Studio items. Installer generously provided by BitRock.<\/p>\n Mac OS X Installer (41.7 MB)<\/a> Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I promise, last day of the pallets, and to finish this a little surprise at the end.<\/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":[39,36,13,10],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-carrara-8","tag-daz-3d-studio","tag-filterforge","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","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=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5576,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/newpal01.jpg\" "\\"newpal01\\"")
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