Forum: Bryce


Subject: Cactus model

sylvestermax opened this issue on Jun 12, 2000 ยท 6 posts


bonestructure posted Tue, 13 June 2000 at 3:31 PM

Okay, here's an idea, but it'll take some work. go to www.ditto.com and enter saguaro into the search engine. Fine a picture of a cactus you like. In photoshop or PSP, put just the pucture of the cactus on a black background, convert it to grayscale, gaussian blur it a bit, save it as a tiff or a bitmap. In Bruce, create a symmetrical lattice. click on the e. Increase resolutiuon to at least 510. Click on new/from picture. Browse to find your picture of the cactus. Put that picture in. That will make your lattice the shape of the cactus. Lower and smooth it until you feel it looks good. Click okay and see what it looks like. Then texture it. You can texture it from the picture if you save a color copy, but you have to make the black transparent, and I'm not sure how to do that. You might ask Hawkfyr, he knows how to do transparency.

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