tonymouse opened this issue on Feb 26, 2007 · 4 posts
tonymouse posted Mon, 26 February 2007 at 2:29 PM
I am planning on making a Cactus man out of the freak, using a bump map to simulate the virtical ridges that a cactus has, but I am looking for No nose and no ears morphs, and I am hoping I can make his head very round and small. M3 morphs also work on the freak, so those for him would do as well. as for the props, anybody know of any thing I could use for the cactus spines, and perhaps cactus buds/flowers.
Free or pat I don't care ;) thanks in advance.
Tony
tonymouse posted Thu, 01 March 2007 at 8:50 AM
WOW, This is the first time I have ever been searching for something and got no sugestions. I guess its just not out there. thanks anyway.
Tony
Miss Nancy posted Thu, 01 March 2007 at 11:18 AM
oops, sorry 'bout dat! the spines are easy - poser cones. some 3d modelling apps have a "spherize" transformation that would morph the head like that. simulate the valleys between the ridges by drawing yer own texture over the m3 template, with various soft-edged axial black lines, then use it as a displacement map. the cactus buds and flowers .... jeez, I dunno. they've got a distinctive waxy and translucent appearance that I haven't seen in flowers posted as freebies here.
3Dave posted Fri, 02 March 2007 at 5:08 AM
I've been experimenting with displacement maps, perhaps you could use them to create the spines, the image below was made with small white circles on a black background as the displacement, (value 0.5) I think I could have achieved finer definition of the spikes but was using a relatively small texture map (720 x 835px) as its an animated texture
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1391617&member