Testing a few environments.
Rich
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Testing a few environments.
Rich
Hi Rich - what is 'Ec4k' please??
Steve I would think Ec4k = Eye Candy 4000
I think I may be catching on the Rich's acronyms :D
Eye Candy 4000 environments in JPG format. Need to be changed to TIF format.
Rich
A tile maker.
Rich
molluca,
I don't understand how to get that drawing, I load your xar and appears hexagons in red and a black rectangle, I think I have to do something with live effects, is it true?.
Can you explain me step by step?.
Thanks in advance
There are three drawings. The rectangle is a cutting object that will cut a tileable section.
It needs to be placed away from the edges to eliminate any edge effects.
There is a group of hexagonals. If you select this group, activate Eye Candy 4000 and color the group. You can coor a group as long as they are separated. Select the grid group and do the same. Align the two groups and group them. Put the cutting rectangle over the group and intersect. Make a bitmap copy of the result. Draw a rectangle and fill it with the bitmap copy and set the fill to tile. See if you got a tileable section.
rich
Visuals.
Rich
how can I add your reflection maps?.
I have only the original ones?.
You need to change the format to a non compressed TIF. Then copy and paste them into the EC4000 resource folder. TIFs are too large in file size to post.
If you did it correctly, thay will show in the list.
Rich
XXP drawing exported as EPS to E3. A vector stroke in E3 applied to a spiral path. Smoothed and exported as PDF to XXP. Colored with EC 4000 from XXP.
Rich
aha, I finally understoooood !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Thank you very much
I am begining to understand. I noticed that if you mouse over the image files, there is a message at the bottom of the plugin window that says the images are uncompressed TIFs.
Rich
A Spiral and a line shape.
Rich
Making E3 ring maps and a frame using EC 4000.
Rich
Weaving, it is just an illusion.
Rich
A few more canidate environments.
Rich
I saw that EC appeared to use the center of the environment regardless of the evnironment size. I made a few test images.
Rich
I replaced all the standard Reflection Maps with my own. The program is sensitive to the name and not the actual image. I never did like the grayscale chrome. Just looked out of place with color fills. I have been naming the images with respect to color so that they fall in groups.
Rich
Fly colors. A couple from CMONE's fly, and a few from mine.
A few colors I have ben trying.
XXP with EC 4000.
Greens.
Rich
You can color a multiple selction or a group. A multi selection only shows one object, and a group shows all objects in the group.
An early E3 drawing exported out as a PDF. I was trying to learn to draw in E3 at the time. There were a few problems dealing with things.
When you export without comples fills, the export will be in vector, and useable in XXP.
It is a little difficult to color in EC 4000 because there is just a list of files and no view of the color. I have named the files in primary and secondary sections.
Rich
An oval plate in XXP/EC 4000. Two ovals, one filled and one non filled with a wide line.
An E3 example. Spherical and ring reflection maps applied to two ovals. These are both fills, however, the ring map has a transparent center. The maps fill from the shape. I set the ring fill with a blank white texture to reveal on scren transparency. Being an unknown capability, it wasn't developed.
Wood environments in JPG for EC. Just need to be changed to unformatted TIFs.
Rich
An E3 erase blending frame in XXP. The idea is to make frame stock without the end effects of the fill. A somewhat different path in XXP.
Rich
The frame drawing may appear strange, but you only need to color the rectangles and apply clipviews with the objects behind them.
Rich
Been out gathering gold.
Rich
A comparison to the reflection maps used in E3. I generally use Xara to create the maps. SBP and EC 4000 appear to be useful as well.
The active part of the map is the circular portion. The corners are not used. There are several formats E3 can use. The idea is to design a map to produce an effect. I discovered that E3 could use transparent images as maps. This is not in the manual, and the method is somewhat unusal. Transparent maps flow like the others, being guided by the object shape and using the circular portion. The map fills will export out with transparency, but this isn't normally seen on screen. I found using a papre texture enables on screen transparency. I usually use a blank texture, but any will work. Map fills are sensitive to the complexity of the object. No exact deffinition of what that is. At times, I zoom in to add a fill in the blind. Then save out hoping the fill was complete.
Rich
Amazing Rich
your work is great
greetings
those frames are looking very realistic..
you have created some really good maps - thanks for keeping us in the loop as you go along ;-)
That butterfly, if you flattened the fill bits it would look like enameled jewelry.
Yvonne
Yvonne,
A few more environments. To me, this all appears simple. But, I have been making environments for years.
Rich
A few additional environments to fill in the color range.
Roch
Inspiring work as usual Rich. Nice.
A couple of leaves. Thought these might make good brushes.
Rich
A few black environments from bugs and such.
I drew rectangles slightly larger in width than the frame borders and a little longer to eliminate the end effects. The border shapes were used as clipview objects.
Rich
A few shapes to test the map colors.
Rich
A weed leaf made into an E3 vector stroke and applied to a spiral. The shape could not be map filled in E3. However, I exported out to PDF and opened the vector file in XXP. Then used EC 4000 to color the drawing.
Rich
I tried applying a leaf as an image stroke, but it got stretch too much ans lost the quality of the gloss.
The bamboo leaf applied as a vector stroke and exported out as a PDF. The file had so many nodes that I had difficulty moving it. I did node smoothing in XXP. A little better control than E3.
Rich