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| I should say a little more about Crazy Bump. You can get SOOO much bang for your buck out of running an image through it and adding layers besides your regular color/diffuse map in Element. I had a set of Polaroids I needed to animate a few months ago dropping from above the camera. I could have just used a regular 3d layer, but bringing it into element and loading in bump and spec maps allowed the Polaroid to actually look like there were plastic layers catching extra bits of light as it fell and flopped around. It didnt take long to generate and it brought something to life way more than the traditional method would have. Sorry, for the off topic aside. Brian Behm | Art Director Rooster Teeth Productions On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Brian Behm wrote: You could potentially start by tracing the chips outline on a solid layer and then using that custom path as a shape to extrude in element. Then take your image and run it through something like crazybump (free shareware) and bring the various image maps in as textures for your layer. -- not getting enough of my blather? check out http://flabbyironman.blogspot.com or my portfolio at http://behmcreative.com |
