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Esch Snoats
Artist, Head Minion
Join date: 2 May 2006
Posts: 261
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06-11-2006 22:20
I have an archway, and I want on the texture to have a darkened line that will curve around the archway. What is the easiest way to do this? Obviously a straight line doesn't work because you can't curve it to the shape of the archway. I tried in Photoshop to make a texture with a line that forms a half circle, but I could never get the shape to make the archway. I know it's a matter of trial and error, but I don't want to waste L$10 a pop uploading textures to see if they'll work with this curved archway or not. Any advice is appreciated, thanks!
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Warda Kawabata
Amityville Horror
Join date: 4 Nov 2005
Posts: 1,300
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06-12-2006 00:55
Create another prim under the arch, semi-transparent black or grey, only just slightly smaller than the main arch. The translucency will effectively darken teh main arch texture where it overlaps.
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Cottonteil Muromachi
Abominable
Join date: 2 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,071
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06-12-2006 05:27
From: Esch Snoats I have an archway, and I want on the texture to have a darkened line that will curve around the archway. What is the easiest way to do this? Obviously a straight line doesn't work because you can't curve it to the shape of the archway. I tried in Photoshop to make a texture with a line that forms a half circle, but I could never get the shape to make the archway. I know it's a matter of trial and error, but I don't want to waste L$10 a pop uploading textures to see if they'll work with this curved archway or not. Any advice is appreciated, thanks!
E Link your archway and wear it on your HUD. Then take a screenshot of it. Paste it into photoshop to use as a guide to create a texture. |
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Esch Snoats
Artist, Head Minion
Join date: 2 May 2006
Posts: 261
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06-12-2006 08:09
From: Cottonteil Muromachi Link your archway and wear it on your HUD.
Then take a screenshot of it.
Paste it into photoshop to use as a guide to create a texture. I just tried to attach the archway into my HUD but I can't get it to work right. No matter how I rotate the object, it always shows me the wrong side and it always fills the screen so I never see the entire thing. Any idea what I need to do to just show one side of the arch that's on the screen entirely? Thanks! E |
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Cottonteil Muromachi
Abominable
Join date: 2 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,071
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06-12-2006 15:42
After you attach it to you HUD, you can right click it and choose 'edit' from the pie menu.
You can then zoom out, scale it and also rotate it as you would any other object.
The process of attaching to the HUD is just to take a 'straight on' screenshot so its not distorted by perspective.
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