March 2015 Giveaway - How To Use Bump Maps To Make Cool Artwork Like This

March 2015 Giveaway - How To Use Bump Maps To Make Cool Artwork Like This

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Gary really gives it all away this month. Not only do you get a dozen free bump maps (whatever they are) , but they also seamlessly tile, and if that weren’t enough, Gary has two written tutorials for using the bump maps on the Giveaway page. Yup, you struck gold this month. March comes in like a casino, and goes out like a texture. Read more... then post your bumped up artwork in this thread.

Oh, come on!

77 hits in twelve hours and no posts!?

Perhaps, some people want to go and try them out before commenting. Thank you for the Tutorials and the freebies Gary.

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Originally Posted by Gare

Oh, come on!

77 hits in twelve hours and no posts!?

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Wow Gary you sound just like Leeroy Jethro Gibbs of NCIS :) I'm just starting this tut. but keep getting distracted by the girl's bump maps :D I will endevour to carry on.

Stygg

@Keith,

I was kidding to get a reaction, and fortunately, I got not one, but two. Insecure content creators do this kind of stuff.

@stygg— To the best of my knowledge, I did not include any bump maps for the woman. I'll check again.


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Here's a question.

Why is one of the tiles affecting the other two?

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Originally Posted by pauland

Here's a question.

Why is one of the tiles affecting the other two?

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That's just a billboard for the Giveaway, Paul. I played with opacity on the top tile, and did a score of other things to build a plate, silverware, and so on.

It's called "trying to get attention", not intended to be deceptive in any way (as "advertising" often is)...if you do download the tiles and place one over the other, and give it something in the neighborhood of 40% transparency, you will indeed see what I've depicted.

But what you copied is just part of this month's "headers", and no silverware or food stuffs are included in the tutorials.

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Gary I like the composition, nice work, but see-through tiles are a little odd!

I love the tray.

The solid 22ct cutlery modelled on those of the Bouton household is a special touch!

Hi Gare

Thank you. Will print everything and first study it.

Hélène

@Paul—

Actually, most of the cutlery in the Bouton household is stolen from a famous Scottish restaurant, and is solid 22ct polystyrene. We might even have a spork or two in the Den, just to the right of the Aviary and Study.

Hi Hélène! Hélène, you can help save a tree or two by just putting a bookmark in the tutorials, or by copying the plain text.

Environmentally yours,

Gary

Well I gave the swimming pool a go. I had fun with it. It seems to be a nice collection of bumpmaps and I can see them being quite useful :)

[QUOTE=angelize;524615]Well I gave the swimming pool a go. I had fun with it. It seems to be a nice collection of bumpmaps and I can see them being quite useful :)[/QUOTE

That looks really good Francis, I'm stuck between starting the bumpmap tut. or the Casino Poster Part 2 which I've viewed and is excellent. Decisions-decisions :D

Stygg

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@Paul—

Actually, most of the cutlery in the Bouton household is stolen from a famous Scottish restaurant, and is solid 22ct polystyrene. We might even have a spork or two in the Den, just to the right of the Aviary and Study.

Hi Hélène! Hélène, you can help save a tree or two by just putting a bookmark in the tutorials, or by copying the plain text.

Environmentally yours,

Gary

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Like that!

Greetings from a fellow environist

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Well I gave the swimming pool a go. I had fun with it. It seems to be a nice collection of bumpmaps and I can see them being quite useful :)[/QUOTE

That looks really good Francis, I'm stuck between starting the bumpmap tut. or the Casino Poster Part 2 which I've viewed and is excellent. Decisions-decisions :D

Stygg

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Hi stygg, and thanks for what I'll take as an impromptu plug for

this month's video tutorial: Casino Poser Part II.

That number to dial again is 1-800-YAY-XARA. That's 1-800-YAY-XARA. .

Offer only applies in Continental USA, Hawaiian and Alaska residents cannot apply. Limited to 1 tutorial per household.

Here's my effort for the Pool bumpmap, next is the droplet and then Casino Part 2 :D There is no charge for the plug Gary :D

Stygg

Wow, stygg! That's better than my own version, and I thought mine was good!

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Originally Posted by angelize

Well I gave the swimming pool a go. I had fun with it. It seems to be a nice collection of bumpmaps and I can see them being quite useful :)

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Thanks, Frances. I'll bet some of them could be used as a seed part of a texture tree in filter forge.

One question about your version: why did you choose to make the water look as though it's running, like a stream? I know what you did with the control handles, but now the uniqueness of the texture is sort of smeared. I don't mind; hey, it could be a hot tub with hot (and no cold) running water! :)


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Wow, stygg! That's better than my own version, and I thought mine was good!

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The answer to that is quite simple, we have a great teacher here in the Xone :D Thanks for your kind comment Gary.

Stygg

Hi Gary, I was actually going for a hot tub look. Yes they could be used in Filter Forge, they could be imported as an external image and some of them look as though they may have been created in FF. I may play around with that tonight you have inspired me :)