{"id":5917,"date":"2010-11-25T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2010-11-25T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:54:50","slug":"making-hat-props-for-victoria-4-final-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5917","title":{"rendered":"Making hat props for Victoria 4 &#8211; final part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of hats, I promise. I still don&#8217;t know what to do till tomorrow, as I&#8217;ve been mad as a hatter for the past week or so. Today we&#8217;re gonna make some more hat things for the hat store.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We start \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheetah3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheetah3D<\/a> and import the Model of Micheal 4, the .obj-file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5929\" title=\"hat601\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We remove everything except the head. The model consists of many different objects. I&#8217;ve done this with both Victoria 4 and Micheal 4 to see which one was the best, so the screenshots will be either of them. First we have Michael.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5928\" title=\"hat602\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we have Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5927\" title=\"hat603\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we export just the heads as .obj files, and import those into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/i\/software\/carrara8\/carrara_pro?_m=d\" target=\"_blank\">Carrara 8<\/a>. I had to try the new updated version with tons of bugfixes. We use a Box that we rotate and shape for a Boolean remove.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5926\" title=\"hat604\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After we&#8217;ve smoothed the neck, we add a cylinder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5925\" title=\"hat605\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we take a Box, and shape it by moving the edge lines, one up and one down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5924\" title=\"hat606\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, you will see the result soon. Now I&#8217;ve gotten a new hat idea I just have to test, as I saw it when I looked among the hats I did have in the repository. Back into Cheetah3D and create a New Spline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5922\" title=\"hat608\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We use the Lathe tool to make a hat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5921\" title=\"hat609\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we use the Twist tool to give it a little more realistic look, a typical 1930 hat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5920\" title=\"hat610\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, done with hats, I promise, and here it is, the result of all this hatmaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5930\" title=\"hat611\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hat611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hat to the left in the front is from a DAZ set, the rest are from my hats. This scene was rendered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/i\/software\/daz_studio3?_m=d\" target=\"_blank\">DAZ Studio 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the hats from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renderosity.com\/mod\/freestuff\/index.php?user_id=669998\" target=\"_blank\">Renderosity page<\/a>, among with all the other freebees I&#8217;ve uploaded there. And the verdict on Carrara 8 now? Better, much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of hats, I promise. I still don&#8217;t know what to do till tomorrow, as I&#8217;ve been mad as a hatter for the past week or so. Today we&#8217;re gonna make some more hat things for the hat store.<\/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":[39,12,41],"class_list":["post-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-carrara-8","tag-cheetah3d","tag-daz-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917","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=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}