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Mr.Fletcher · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: (alpha) Object to texture

This is basically not meant for public because it's still buggy and It doesn't work like I expected it to do. But since I don't know when I will work on it again (I'll probably rewrite it completely then) and because I wanted Adar to see this, I'll upload it for everybody, maybe someone can use it already.

The idea is that some people, incidently I belong to those people, are good at modeling but bad at making textures. With this plugin, you can "model your texture". You create and object, optionally lightmap it and the plugin will take a picture of the object(s) and create a new material with that texture, so you can easily create textures out of some arbitrary objects.

Try it out.

(nov 5 2008: updated the link, again, without a readme.txt, sorry)
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trucker2000 · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

That's a great idea. Smile

I like making objects and using the lighting as the only texture. That usually works out great. Smile

Thankyou. I'll definately give it a whirl.
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Jeroen · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:04 am Post subject:

Nice idea! Keep us posted and if you want us to host this gem when it's done, let me know! Smile

Mr.Fletcher · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: Re: (alpha) Object to texture

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AWM Mars · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject:

This why I like reading most of the content in Forums, you come across some very useful information, saves you asking stupid questions most of the time lol.

The idea of using say a Terrain Brush, where you can choose say a Grass texture, paint a large expanse, then select a Path brush texture then paint your path onto the mesh. I remember a MS game (Age Of Empires) that came with a Level editor, and it had a series of T and staggered junctions etc (albeit we would need to create those) the Path texture would need to support alphas so they can be used with any background terrain texture.

I imagine using such things as seashore 'brushes', Mountain, Lowland, Highland etc terrain textures.

If you create a mesh terrain, that has been smoothed and UV mapped, then 'painting' a strip of Alpha based transition texture between grass to seashore edge, then painting a sand texture down to the water edge.

The transition textures can be a 4 layered texture. 1st layer say the transition strip with alpha on one side, blocking the layer below, 2nd layer the sand, 3rd layer transition strip with alpha on one side, blocking the layer below, 4th the grass. I believe this would have to be done in say Gimp or Photoshop using layered masks. Texture alignment would have to be precise.
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