The September 2012 Guest Tutorial Discussion-Creating Textured Extrusions

Creating Textured Extrusions with Displacement Maps - September 2012 Tips and Tricks Tutorial


Angelize (Frances Proctor) demonstrates in this month's guest Tips and Tricks tutorial how you can use a Xara Live Effects plugin filter, ImageSkill's Displacement Map to move 3D extruded text from ordinary to extraordinary. She shows how you can create an effect in Xara Designer Pro X, a 2D vector drawing program that looks like it was created and texture mapped in a 3D modeling and rendering program.

So spend some time to read through and experiment with the technique and then show us your work here. You don't need to limit yourself to extuded text either, you can work this technique on any extruded object or group of objects.

Frances' tutorial demonstrates the "thinking outside of the box" approach I'd like to learn from, and teach more often.

Xaraists have a problem making the sides of an extruded object anything other than a solid color: angelize found a solution, and we don't even have to exit the program to get the piece finished.

Nice going!

My Best,

Gary

I enjoyed the tut. by Francis Gary and also learnt a little trick to make it totally transparent, no big deal but could come in handy. :D

Stygg

Actually, the last panel is a nice piece of art in and of itself, stygg!

Well done!

-g

Very nice Stygg :) Thanks for posting your results!