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Texturing a globe?
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13 Dec 2005Hey guys :]
I've modelled this globe, and now I was wondering what would be the easiest way to texture it. I'm really pretty much a noob when it comes to materials & texturing, and normally I'd fiddle a bit with it, but it's for a friend who's moving to the US and this saturday's the farewell party ... I want it printed on a T-shirt by then, so I'm a bit on a deadline here
What I want to do is to make all the land green, all the see blue, and have some kind of gradient in between, on the edges of the continents, going from blue to green. Is there an easy way to do this? Or will I have to unwrap it and paint in in Photoshop?
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13 Dec 2005Would a Top/Bottom material work on a sphere?
I've used Top/Bottom materials to get a gradual blend on landscapes before. It may work of you apply a spherical UVW then the colour would be determined by the height of the mesh. Not too sure myself - but certainly worth a try. -
13 Dec 2005if u detach the land from the sea or assign different mat id's to them u can texture them individually without really having to do much in photoshop. i think you could get some nice looking water without any 2d mats as for the gradient from land to sea i think your best bet is to unwrap the bits of land.
btw nice model ..tho you could have done all of it with displacement maps would have saved you a lot of trouble . -
13 Dec 2005There's a tutorial on this kind of thing in our tutorials section.
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13 Dec 2005This one Cameron? http://simplycg.net/viewtopic.php?t=91
The pics are down, and I'm too much a noob to imagine what it'd look like
Yeah, I thought about displacement mapping, but since I had never done it I figured it'd be fasted if I cut it and extruded. Which worked better than I expected
I'll try it global, thx! If that doesn't work I'll unwrap D: -
17 Dec 2005Right, I ditched the gradient thing, it looked like crap.
It's +/- finished, but I'm not sure if I entirely like it. What do you guys reckon?
The idea is to print this on a T-shirt for a friend who's moving to the US. It's for a girl
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17 Dec 2005it's perfect apart from one thing... the south pole, there is some kind of pink colour which i dont like... might as well to make the guys a bit darker
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17 Dec 2005COol
How did you texture it in the end?
Nice idea too... good luck to your friend (though he's probably mad!) -
17 Dec 2005It's a girl
killer: I did it the noob way. Getting a ref from google in my viewport, then cut the continents out of a sphere. Then select + extrude.
Global: the noob way again, detached all the continents + sides, and assigned a green material to it. It seemed like the easiest solution to me.
Now, I showed this to another girl, and she suggested a couple of things:
- to bring the continents closer together. Do you guys have any suggestions for that without recutting or messing the mesh up btw?
- to make both figures bigger, they'll be hard to see when printed
- She suggested maybe overpainting the world in photoshop, to get it to look more child-like-innocent.
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17 Dec 2005i tried to do the gradient thing you were trying and this was my result:
its the combination of a displace map and a texture in ps. -
17 Dec 2005ridestowe
,your is really nice but i don't think it fits to Jake's one.Jake, try using the bend modifyers, if you don't use it too much, it should come out ok... and i really thing its prefect, just make the guys a bit darker so that they are easyer to see...
and BTW my name is Mr Killer not "killer" lol
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17 Dec 2005I really like that Ridestowe :] I must try that!
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17 Dec 2005i think u need more of those yellow dudes maybe a big one holding the globe...its really plain as is .. maybe you could have them doing interesting things on the globe .
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17 Dec 2005i think there is only ment to be 2 , Jake and his friend....
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joe_blowdog 13 posts20 Dec 2005perhaps somthing comical and somwhat cute like the two foam cups with a string between them? -
20 Dec 2005Yeah, I thought about that, but that's more like "I'll give you a call". Whereas I wanted to say "We'll stay in touch, it's not that far"
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22 Dec 2005Alright.
Since printing it on T-shirt would take too long (+9 working days) and by then she has already left I decided to print it on a poster. (only 4-5 working days).
Now, the salesmen said my dpi was too low, it's at 72 whereas it should be 300 for a poster. Is there a way to render it like that, with more DPI? Or should I just render it in some insane resolution (like +9000*12000px)? -
22 Dec 2005render with a big resonution like half or a third of +9000*12000px then open it in photoshop and change the dpi there, if you cant find it, ask agin and i'll show you
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25 Dec 2005K, where can I find it in PS?
Made another one, this time for my girlfriend's little sister. She's 12 and an avid tennis player. I hope she'll like it :]
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05 Jan 2006whoa thats a sweet idea
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