{"id":5964,"date":"2010-12-01T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2010-11-24T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T10:28:46","slug":"making-a-monocle-for-m4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5964","title":{"rendered":"Making a monocle for M4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, back to the pulp era. I warn you, I will soon start making some space punk characters also for the Serenity RPG, so this will be a rather fun digital time machine, jumping around. I tried to find their webpage using google, but all that came up were torrents to download the PDF rules<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I needed a monocle for an NPC picture of a butler, so I decided to make one. First, into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheetah3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheetah3D<\/a> to make the model.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with a Torus ring like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5972\" title=\"monoc1\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we add a Ball inside the torus ring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5971\" title=\"monoc2\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We flatten that ball to be in the shape of a thin convex lens. Then we add a smaller torus ring and join that with the large one. Then I set a transparent material for the lens and a yellow material for the rim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5970\" title=\"monoc3\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We export as .obj and .mtl files.We start <a href=\"http:\/\/poser.smithmicro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poser<\/a> and add a Michael 4 to the scene. As you can see, my materials didn&#8217;t work very well when we load and pose the monocle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5969\" title=\"monoc4\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Setting materials in Poser makes it look better, using a black, 90% transparent high reflective material for the lens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5968\" title=\"monoc5\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we set a default texture to Michael, so our monocle will be more visible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5967\" title=\"monoc6\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in this close up shot you can see the reflection in the glass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5966\" title=\"monoc7\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is Jean-Claude Monet, the Butler, composed and rendered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daz3d.com\/i\/software\/daz_studio3?_m=d\" target=\"_blank\">DAZ Studio 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5965\" title=\"monoc8\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/monoc8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very nice man don&#8217;t you say? The monocle is a smart prop and can be downloaded from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renderosity.com\/mod\/freestuff\/details.php?item_id=62436\" target=\"_blank\">Renderosity freebees<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, back to the pulp era. I warn you, I will soon start making some space punk characters also for the Serenity RPG, so this will be a rather fun digital time machine, jumping around. I tried to find their webpage using google, but all that came up were torrents to download the PDF rules<\/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":[12,41,38],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-daz-studio","tag-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","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=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}