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Dear Tyson and whoever else, question on texture tree branch
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Jonathan 480 posts08 Apr 2007So I like the look of the textures on the tree branch for the sparrow.
I'm practicing texture, with some success and. . .some not.
Anyway,
What kind of modifiers do I need for the textures? That is,
-bump
-displacement,
etc.
to achieve a similar effect?
It's going to be a chubby worm trying to climb down a branch, just so I can work on textures.
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08 Apr 2007I had a noise modifier on the branch to mess it up a bit, and then lots of bump and displacement in the texture.
The key was getting a good bark texture that was contrasty enough to obscure the actual branch model's form. Check out http://www.mayang.com/textures for tons of great hi-rez textures -
Jonathan 480 posts09 Apr 2007
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Jonathan 480 posts09 Apr 2007Just trying a texture I took with my camera at 4k by 4k, and using specular, bump, diffuse, with a little bit of noise on the bump, I think that's how it is currently.
http://www.thattechsite.com/files/2k_brown.bmp Picture is 9mb, BTW. -
Jonathan 480 posts09 Apr 2007Here's a texture on a tree, but the texture is too small for a whole tree, or rather too small of a picture for the whole thing (it was a close up of a tree I took with my camera, and then I just "clone stamped" it all over a 2k map, so it blurred a lot of the spots.
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09 Apr 2007Looking good man! Try throwing a meshsmooth iteration on the mesh and then adding some displacement to mix it up a bit, either that or a noise modifier
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Jonathan 480 posts09 Apr 2007Here's a quick test with a simple polygon plane with an alpha texture/leaf on there, and I started a "Blizzard" particle flow event and instanced the geometry as the particles.
I have tweaked them more to make them fall more "leaf-y" but I guess the best thing to do would be to press "6" and do a lot more refined work instead of just using the Blizzard system. However, that must wait till I have a good grasp on texturing.
Here's a short little video, I had the tumble, variation, etc. way to far up.
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Jonathan 480 posts10 Apr 2007Hey eveyrone,
Here's a test scene I am doing.
The textures I did in photoshop at a fairly high resolutions (between 2048 to 2560). Just a simple test scene, nothing special.
I'm going to play with the shadow settings to get more a natural, "soft" look to them.
Feel free to critique and give me any pointers. I know the lighting is rather reminiscent of CG from the early 90s, but high, I'm wokring on it.
Here's the smaller version (1mb)
If you want a link to a 2560x2560 image, let me know, it's 19mb!
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10 Apr 2007Hey nice work! The table texture looks fantastic!
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Jonathan 480 posts10 Apr 2007Wow, thanks a lot, that means a lot coming from you.
BTW, is there a way to make the alpha channel texture leaves case shadows, or does that require actual normal modeling/texturing? -
10 Apr 2007Just use any kind of raytracing shadow to do that
Either raytrace shadows or area shadows will do the trick (rendertimes will be a lot longer though) -
Jonathan 480 posts11 Apr 2007Yep, indeed.
Just tried Raytraced and it worked.
Now, if I want to have the leaf render on both sides, do I just need to do a shell modifier? I did that, and it worked, but I wasn't sure if there was a way to do it with just one plane instread of more than twice the polygons? Either way, it doesn't matter, but I'm sure in a heavy scene it would. -
11 Apr 2007i think you just click the "2-sided" check box on your leaf material, and it should do it.
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Jonathan 480 posts11 Apr 2007
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11 Apr 2007
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Jonathan 480 posts12 Apr 2007Hey,
Here's a test I did with just a few branches/leaves, the bench, and a 135mm target camera with DOF enabled.
I need to work on shaders and lighting, so it looks more natural.
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12 Apr 2007this is looking real solid so far, I'm excited to see how it turns out!
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Jonathan 480 posts12 Apr 2007Thanks for the support.
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bzudo 151 posts12 Apr 2007the table and textures are looking good so far. like you said lighting and textures will help it out. i'd also recommend adding bird s**t to the top of the table. just about every picnic table i've sat on has s**t on it. just a thought.
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