Power Distort

[wbiss]

Erik: they do, Wendy, but cablespeed isn't speedy at all. You should wait untill they are loaded...

So that's it...??? Hokey Dokey... I'll wait! ;)

[shhh] I'm just not used to having to do so, since installing DSL!

Update: 10 minutes later .... still nothing! [confused]

Okay, will sit tight 'til your new domain is ready, Stroker! ;)

[Erik]

to quote myself: "Yet if the highway is crowded, the browser gives up."

[wbiss]

I didn't mean to infer that my browser waited 10 mins, Erik... ;\

I just gave up trying (for now) after attempting half a dozen times in those 10 mins. ;)

[Stroker]

Looks like my new domain has propagated and my FTP problems are gone. Power Distort images are up and posts are edited. My fingers are crossed.

Please let me know if can't see the images.

Looking forward to working on my new site. Yippie!
If things go well, I'll have a little surprise after Sneak Peak 2. Not much of a surprise, just a little celebration present.

edit:
ApWiz, yes, by some standards I am considered crazy and/or insane. Then again, some consider me a genius. It's a mixed blessing.
I'll PM you one of these days when I'm not so busy beating the kids.

Eric, I did think about attaching them to the posts, but having them at the end of a post really ruins my flow... and I gotta have my flow.
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[Erik]

I can see them loud and clear captain!

[wbiss]

me too Stroker!

B7 I look forward to sinking my teeth into this!

[Stroker]

This is something that I avoid talking about. As you read through this, don't be surprised if I sound a bit angry.

Sneak Peak 2

Even for a sneak peak, I'm not showing quite as much as I want to.

As we saw way back in the beginning, you can pick a colour from a reference cube and know it's direction when you hit Displace. The opposite is also true. That is, you can start with a colour, then Select > Colour Range in the reference cube to see where that colour with grab from. This is good.

Now, there are a lot of tutorials out there about wrapping a texture to a face or something. The majority of those tutorials are just flat out wrong. Yes, they are wrong.

One method to show that they are wrong involves the above Colour Range trick. Unfortunately, I don't have the strength right now to run you folks through it. If you are smart enough, and I'm sure you are, you'll figure it out.

Another method to show that they are wrong is Power Distort. Luckily, I just happen to have a face to illustrate this.

Upper-Left
This is the face that I chose. If you are using one of those other tutorials, chances are you would be recycling the colour information in the photo. Right? Thought so.

Upper-Right
Oh, man. I stitched together eleven funky quads to get a partial D-Map. It's not the whole face, but it's enough to get my point across. It is a lot of work, but the end result is far superior to recycling colour values from the photo.



Lower-Left
This is the Red channel of the partial D-Map.

Lower-Right
This is the Green channel of the partial D-Map.

I'm sure you can see how both of those channels are a far cry from the values in the photo.

I have tried this D-Map and it works very well. Although, I haven't gotten an example that I'm entirely happy with. That is, I have yet to find a texture or something that looks decent when wrapped. I tried grids and a few other things, and they do wrap well, but they don't look that great for one reason or another.

While most of the time recycling colour information is bad, there are times when it works. A certain someone did a fine job of this. When I get to the official tutorial, I'll get into this.

That's about it from me.

play.fiddle.learn