Huge (30x30) cave intersection

[TheMarcus7]

... One way to get around this is to use an outer glow type effect to have the shadow on all sides, and then perhaps a bit more on the side with no light on a separate layer. ...

Anyone got a set of steps for how I'd do this in GIMP? Or is that the Gausian Blur brush work that torstan described in his tutorial on newbiedm.com.

2/4 Well I worked on this again last night, and wasn't that happy with much of what I did. I did check out the Genetica Viewer, however and thats some sweet software. I might install it on a second machine so I can render while I do other things for bit texture panels.




.TM7

[torstan]

You can do it that way, but you can also do it with the drop shadow filter. Make sure you have a selection that includes all the walls and internal walls. Then go to Filter->Shadows (I think)->drop shadow. Play around with the setting and the displacement and that should give you the overall glow.

[TheMarcus7]

I messed around with this all day:

• I cleaned up my masks.
• Stripped out the dropshadow.
• Added a triplet of texture layers for the interior walls, but eventually just would up stripping them all out again.
• Layered on the "torstan watercolor shadow" effect.
• Created a siggy thing. (definately needs work)

and for comparison, the original

I think my next project will be a little smaller.

.TM7

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