Forum: Bryce


Subject: DTE brain meltdown.

drawbridgep opened this issue on Jan 07, 2005 ยท 28 posts


Quest posted Sat, 08 January 2005 at 5:45 PM

Yes, but of course Drawbridgep. BTW, I read about your dilemma with your license and all the red tape and the catch 22. Sorry to hear about that and you have my sympathies, the price of dealing with a vast bureaucratic establishment, but being totally nae about such matters as immigration policies, there was little I could contribute to the thread that would be beneficial to your cause. This situation cannot last indefinitely but is definitely an inconvenience, counterproductive and an overall pain in the arse. Hope you get it straightened out in short order. Yesthe name etching on the ring, I created another copy of the ring design object and this time I rescaled it slightly smaller than the ring opening. Then in Photoshop, using the same size file as your design image, I created the bump map name etching using the text tool on a white background. I stretched it vertically and squeezed it horizontally so that it would fit evenly in the viewable space provided so that it could be read entirely at a glance (this takes trial and error to position). Being that the texture would automatically be applied on the closest surface normals facing the viewer in front of the ring, the new object would have to be rotated around its y-axis to bring the etching into full view and because the etching would now be facing opposite the viewer, I needed to flip the map horizontally so that the name was backwards from right to left on the map so that the viewer can read the name correctly from left to right. Being that the name was written using black as the foreground color, I entered a positive 5 value for the bump height (I could have gone deeper than 5) and the rest is Smeagol history.