The vine house has been completed to my satisfaction.
The house was created in Hexagon, all texturing and rendering was done in Vue 7 Complete. The vine plant was created in the plant editor.
Hope you enjoy it.
This is a reference guide as to what the noise nodes look like when they are applied to a square.
Each material is mapped to “object-parametic”and uses a black-white color map where black is -1 and white is 1.
Inspired by Walther Becks ivy on cornucopia3d I have started work on a house covered by ivy. I have modelled the house on one from Tosterup, Skane in Sweden, and have created an ivy plant using a picture of an ivy leaf and editing the spring hollyhock plant.
Each of the ivy leaves has a different color tone to add some variety, its starting to look a bit better but I really want to get the texture on the house to look more weatherbeaten.
In this third part of the the rough guide to the material editor, we will be exploring the Color and Alpha Tab of the advanced material editor
Part 4 will jump into the function editor for a preview of some of the cool stuff that can be done in there. Filters will also be covered there.
There will be a reference guide to the shapes of the noise functions in Part 4.
Firstly we will look at the Advanced Material Editor Color and Alpha Tab. Unless stated, all mapping is as “object parametric”.
In this part of the rough guide we will look in more depth at the graph window and the controls that are availiable.
Using the Graph
There are various controls which allow you to move around and view different areas in the graph window and access different controls.
I am in the process of learning the function editor in Vue 7 Complete by using the fantastic tutorials at geek at play, the vue 7 manual and a lot of trial and error.
So far I am having a fair deal of sucess, in that its not as scary as it first appears, its just a case of learning where everything is and having the creativity to know what it is you want to achieve and how to make things more realistic.
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This is the start of what will hopefully be a fairly extensive group of guides on the material editor. I will hope to cover all aspects of the editor in a similar fashion to the water editor. Firstly I will cover the basic material editor, then the tabs in the advanced editor, followed by ecosystems, volumetric and mixed materials. There will be a final series of guides on the function editor.
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