{"id":6269,"date":"2011-02-10T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2011-02-02T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:06:03","slug":"mapping-the-promised-land-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6269","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Promised Land – Part five"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re gonna add some more map details today, as the details always make the map look better. I know I normally try to stay with the less is more<\/strong><\/em>, but it should not be too clean either.<\/p>\n

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Today we start with FilterForge<\/a>, and a relatively new filter which is really good for worn floor plating. Here is the texture I will use to make some hatches in the floor.<\/p>\n

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We go back into OmniGraffle<\/a> to add this to the map, as a hatch, so we use only one fourth of the texture, one square. We add some OmniGraffle shadow to the hatch as well, so it looks a little sunken in. The grid you see is the Omni gridlines, as this is a screenshot.<\/p>\n

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Now a quick jump into Cheetah3D<\/a>, as I needed something to go as life support tanks for oxygen, water and such things. We create a cylinder and a torus ring, and place them like this.<\/p>\n

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Now we add a texture to the cylinder, using a FilterForge again and the battleship plate filter. We UV-map that (OK this looks ugly still<\/em>), the best we can. Then we add a Crome texture to the torus ring, and render it top down.<\/p>\n

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I think this can go as a tank in a top down view. We place them in cells of six, two cells, one on each side, and then we add a square of texture under some of them, as details, and a steel construction thing I downloaded from SteelRat’s RPGMapShare<\/a> a while ago.<\/p>\n

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Now I jump into DAZ Studio 3<\/a> to render a few control tables that I downloaded from the DAZ Freebee page. These are pngs, so you can snag them if you like them.<\/p>\n

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So are you curious how this will look? So am I, so here is a small piece of the ship, the engine room.<\/p>\n

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I think is going in the right direction, looking better and better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re gonna add some more map details today, as the details always make the map look better. I know I normally try to stay with the less is more, but it should not be too clean either.<\/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":[12,41,13,10],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-daz-studio","tag-filterforge","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","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=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}