i have yet to make a sculpty, but when i came across these great tablecloths at Rexxed i at least had to snag them for my own use
- rez a prim,
- apply the sculpty,
- dupe the sculpted prim, make it a tad smaller, and mirror it (so that the underside had a texture),
- link the two together (both on same coordinates since inner one is slightly smaller (no Z-index fighting this way)
- apply a texture i made (underside too and give it a light gray colour),
- place on table and voila =)
it's as easy as 1,2,3,4,5,6 . . . hmm =p
dupe, reduce, and link - this way the cloth has in "inside" texture
i almost always shadow undersides a bit darker
a little weave texture added to a 256 pixel square PNG 8
just add sunset and martinis and virtual living is good! =)
“i almost always shadow undersides a bit darker”
Very nice. Small touches really add to a scene. And I presume prim shadows, that the brain instantly interprets correctly.
Breen Whitman
13 Sep 10 at 4:18 am
About time you added some furniture to that nice new home of yours =P
Tables are looking good.
Jonathan
13 Sep 10 at 4:31 am
thanks and i meant to say i tint the bottom side of objects a little darker. so if i made a red cube, i would typically make the red a bit darker on the bottom and if it is a texture i make the colour a light gray
i do this on stairs, i’ll colour the vertical face darker than the tread to help differentiate them
lol, as to prim shadows, i am still torn! =D
Ener Hax
13 Sep 10 at 8:22 am
“as to prim shadows, i am still torn! =D”
Keep ‘em. I can think of few situations where a light source doesnt come from above. It doesn’t even have to be the dominant light source, yet a table is perfect, it is likely some shadow will fall directly under it, and thus a subtle shadow underneath will always look “correct” to the brain.
Breen Whitman
13 Sep 10 at 9:04 pm
good point, many things like a table or car always have shadows under them, even at night
yet something else for me to obsess about in my obsessive look at shadows! =D
Ener Hax
14 Sep 10 at 8:05 am