Forum: Bryce

Subject: Building models with transmaps...

AgentSmith opened this issue on Oct 14, 2002 ยท 14 posts

AgentSmith posted Mon, 14 October 2002 at 1:17 AM

Just fooling around, made this with a cylinder and a transmap. Never thought about creating objects with them before. Something I will tuck away for a rainy night to experiment with. AgentSmith

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EricofSD posted Mon, 14 October 2002 at 1:19 AM

Yup, you can have a ton of fun with alpha pics.

catlin_mc posted Mon, 14 October 2002 at 6:02 AM

I'd like to have tons of fun with this too, there's just one thing......how do you do that ? Catlin

Colette1 posted Mon, 14 October 2002 at 1:59 PM

What is a transmap?

shadowdragonlord posted Mon, 14 October 2002 at 7:31 PM

It's a black-and-white (grayscale) image appied in a texture channel to an object, where the blacker the value, the more transparent, and the whiter the value, the more opaque. Or vice-versa, you can flip the values from within bryce, which is cool. Many of the stock Bryce trees (non tree-lab) use this method to remain on the 1-polygon level.

Colette1 posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 1:22 AM

OH.

catlin_mc posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 2:41 AM

Since everyone is taking about, or trying to make leaves, here is one I made earlier. It is a photograph of a leaf together with the black and white wrapped round a half sphere. It's not brilliant but it's a start. Must play more with these transmap thingys.

Colette1 posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 12:30 PM

This is really good, is anyone going todo a tutorial on this? I really have no clue what your all talking about:(.

catlin_mc posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 5:39 PM

Follow steps 1 to 4, and then click ok. The image will appear in Bryce, open "Edit Materials" and click add. You can then put this material on whatever shape you like, try it on various shapes, like circle or cone and see what happens. Hope this helps Colette, any questions drop me a note. Catlin

AgentSmith posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 7:02 PM

Here's the transmap I used. Feel free to use. AgentSmith

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AgentSmith posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 7:08 PM

Basic settings. AgentSmith

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Colette1 posted Tue, 15 October 2002 at 8:25 PM

Thanks guys! I understand a lot better with visuals.:))))

SevenOfEleven posted Wed, 16 October 2002 at 8:23 AM

Thanks for the info. Have seen abstract stuff done on other sites and transmaps look like the way to go.

AgentSmith posted Wed, 16 October 2002 at 3:41 PM

I've also used transmaps to make soft shadows in bryce 4.

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