Bob: I'm using Wine to launch the generator, but I notice that when using the settings I see in your screenshot, my image doesn't take the same shape. It's far different. Which makes me wonder if by using Wine it causes rendering inaccuracies.

I'm using Wine also. Try clicking on the image in the render window and turning it (click and drag down).
Also, Right-click and drag zooms/unzooms; if you have a middle button, middle-click and drag will move the image left/right.

I wonder if I have to go to the trouble of creating .rgb files too. Not hard since I found out XnView can create these. The files look pretty much like the ppm files did so just curious.

The .rgb files are used as backgrounds only, as best I can tell from the generator.tcl file. Gimp can create these as easy as any other. When you are ready to save, use Save As, and for the type select the Silicon Graphics IRIS type, then manually change the extension from .sgi to .rgb. In the next dialog, select Raw as the type.

Never saved in this format; cool info again Bob. I think instead of modifying the file, I will go the rename file route (back up textures of course). Just easier for a lazy guy like me.

Just confirming that replacing the file with one already in database works. Used my coral texture in this case.

Pretty nifty!

Just a reminder (something I knew in the back of my head but didn't occur to me until I started fooling around with the textures...thought I'd mention it here): the reason the molten gold texture looks so smooth is that it is a large texture (512x512p) and I only applied one to the figure. Smaller dimensioned textures will either have to stretch to cover the figure, or add more texture tiles until they "look right."

Lyle,
Here's your last one with a brick texture, which I named "Long and Winding Road." These screenshots don't do justice to the render, especially in autorotate.

Bricks does make a cool texture Bob. Using an actual texture inside the program is much better then doing the texture application in GIMP (used Displacement mapping then).

How do you get the sculptures to seam perfectly? I've fiddled with the settings to no avail, there is always a slight gap that never lines up because the slider spacing is in 5 or 10 increments.

The sculpture or the texture pattern?

The sculpture. If the sculpture seams right, so will the texture.

Maybe it depends on which settings you are using. For example, Bend toward arch=360 always seems to give me a complete seamless circle. Sometimes I see that it looks like there is a line but if I use the mouse to click-drag a little the image redraws seamlessly. The images should have symmetry so that even +/- 180 Axial twist will allow seamless-ness for that setting. For other renders, even numbers for Holes per Storey seem to be more likely to provide seamless-ness than odds.

The turn must be divisable by 360. That seams to work Mahvin. And what the heck; one more for fun.

Those are real nifty Lyle.

Thank's Rod; just wish there would be a way to define a contoured map (as opposed to a plane) in GIMP so that you could make cool textured maps, but then GIMP would not just be a 2D editor anymore (i.e., outside it's scope). Using this program to map the texture is nothing short of the bomb to me. Fantastic to see textures as they should be. Displacement mapping is just not convincing enough to me. I really do need to figure out how to work with 3D apps; wish I wasn't so lazy sometimes. lol

This is so much fun to play with!!!

Greg,

That looks sort of caterpillar-ish! Add some legs and "googly" eyes and there might be some toy company willing to market it.

That's a good idea!



That's a reeeeaaaallllly good idea!!

Another sculpture. I like separating the sculpture from the background. Rendering it can be tricky, though!