Random WIP 2006-2011

[smoth]

pm a link to your model to my pm box. I will look at it tonight.

[Peet]

You want some edges to look round.

[Hoi]

You want some edges to look round.

what edges do i not want to look round and why not?

[rattle]

etc.

You really should go through all 122 pages of this thread...

[Hoi]

etc.

You really should go through all 122 pages of this thread...

i get it now:)
e: and im at page 20

[Hoi]

does it looks a bit like the matrix?

[Hoi]

circuit board?
(sorry for the big image)

[smoth]

no. Don't use filters. Use those tuts I gave you.

[Hoi]

no. Don't use filters. Use those tuts I gave you.

i do, i just needed a circuit board and i wondered how i should make one, whats wrong with filters?

[Snipawolf]

Any kind of board generally has lots of writing and things to plug other things into.

[Hoi]

Any kind of board generally has lots of writing and things to plug other things into.

im talking about futureistic ones for a future robot race like this

[Argh]

The filtered textures you made are a start, but to be really interesting, they need more love.

If you're planning to use them as a repeating tile so you can fill areas with them, you need to take a section at whatever resolution you're going to use and do the hand-editing required to make it tile nicely. There are various ways to make tiles- I prefer using offset and editing out by hand, it gives it a better feel, imo.

I could see a "circuit-board armor", with golden lines of reflectivity and green, being very interesting visually, but when it's just gray levels of green, it's probably not going to work- it'll just look very noisy at a distance. I'd give it more real color variation, better feeling for light and shadow, and better use of contrast before using it as a fill texture.

[Hoi]

If you're planning to use them as a repeating tile so you can fill areas with them, you need to take a section at whatever resolution you're going to use and do the hand-editing required to make it tile nicely. There are various ways to make tiles- I prefer using offset and editing out by hand, it gives it a better feel, imo.

I could see a "circuit-board armor", with golden lines of reflectivity and green, being very interesting visually, but when it's just gray levels of green, it's probably not going to work- it'll just look very noisy at a distance. I'd give it more real color variation, better feeling for light and shadow, and better use of contrast before using it as a fill texture.

there are various possibilitys by varying filters and colours, im thinkin about using something like this for a solar collector

I could see a "circuit-board armor", with golden lines of reflectivity

i dunno how to use texture 2 yet

[Warlord Zsinj]

Unless he started his filter from a 'clouds' base, which automatically tiles.

[smoth]

filter-whoring is always used in extremely amatuerish photoshop works. Learn what was inside of those tutorials I linked you to.

[Warlord Zsinj]

Yeah, I started filtering a lot but very quickly moved away from it. It never works the way you want it, and anyone with basic photoshop experience can spot it a mile away.

[rattle]

You can actually create nice overlays with the clouds and sponge filter, good for metal surfaces or adding noise (much better than the noise filter).

[smoth]

or you can use a pattern that you have stored... /me does that.

[Warlord Zsinj]

If I don't need it to tile, I'll use actual metal textures from cgtextures or from photos on flickr - far more realistic.

[Evil4Zerggin]

If I don't need it to tile, I'll use actual metal textures from cgtextures or from photos on flickr - far more realistic.

Ooh, I'll have to remember that. Drawing/filtering everything by hand is not so good for a GIMP newb like me.