{"id":6370,"date":"2011-02-26T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2011-02-18T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:42:44","slug":"mapping-the-promised-land-part-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6370","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Promised Land &#8211; Part twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Promised Land will be the crews home for weeks at a time in space, there will be need for many different kinds of activities to keep fit, this is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So, we start up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheetah3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheetah3D<\/a> today, and we create a Box that we shape like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6379\" title=\"plb201\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we create another box, and stretch it the other way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6378\" title=\"plb202\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see where this is leading? A Table. Now we Boolean merge them all together, then I lark the seams for texture cutting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6377\" title=\"plb203\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I Start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filterforge.com\/?affiliateid=200100725\" target=\"_blank\">FilterForge<\/a> and I create a little fast filter to make a scratched metal surface, here is the texture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6376\" title=\"plb204\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the bump map.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6375\" title=\"plb205\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we create a material in Cheetah3D and apply that to our table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6374\" title=\"plb206\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are two topdown renders, sized and shadowed using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraffle\/\" target=\"_blank\">OmniGraffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb207a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6373\" title=\"plb207a\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb207a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb207b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6372\" title=\"plb207b\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb207b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a table with some guns, ready for practicing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6371\" title=\"plb208a\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb208a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is a piece of the Promised Land map, the indoor shooting range to keep up the skills with the six-shooter and your rifle. The targets are of course virtual hologram targets of Alliance troops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6380\" title=\"plb209\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/plb209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"930\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re coming somewhere now, this ship starts to look really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Promised Land will be the crews home for weeks at a time in space, there will be need for many different kinds of activities to keep fit, this is one of them.<\/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":[12,13,10],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d","tag-filterforge","tag-omnigraffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","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=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}