Hah hah... yes, we're cookin now.
Hah hah... yes, we're cookin now.
Nice! And no need for particle effects, kinda nifty.
That is beautiful...time consuming, for the likes of me but beautiful (but not as time consuming as really thatching a roof).
If I make a bunch of houses will you thatch them for me using your magic script?
Last edited by ravells; 05-03-2008 at 06:33 AM.
Sure thing if I can use them in my co-op tile !
Just need a height map 8 bit greyscale or a model that I can render one out from. I can take almost any kind of model but at the mo I don't have a sketchup format converter. I should be ok with 3dsmax, obj, lightwave, vrml + lots more like that.
If your building it yourself then its not worth putting huge amounts of detail in as it seems that the thatch covers it up.
Heres a basic hut. I have loads of huts and this is the best one I have. It took just a few seconds to generate.
More cottage bits
I was so impressed I had to try to see if I could do something similar with Gimp:
Attachment 3442
I created a set layers of rotated thatch images, then set the layer mask for each as a bump mapped version of the heightfield with the light coming from the same direction as the thatch was rotated. I think I had the lighting elevation too low, and I only went with 45 degree rotations, cause I was just playing.
I realized afterward that I should have scaled the thatch down a bit, but I think the basics are there.
How did you blend the rotated layers to get the non-direction version?
I think this might be worth scripting...
-Rob A>
Last edited by RobA; 04-27-2010 at 03:47 PM.
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