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HNRS 304.503 Lecture 19 – Figures

November 30, 2012 by Chris Johnson. Filed under fall 2012, honors 304.503, lectures.

Agenda

• Texture volunteer
• Normal mapping
• In-class box modeling

Adding non-color material

Materials don’t have to effect just color. You can pretend that very simple geometry is more detailed than it is through something called a normal map.

1. Create your geometry and give it a material.
2. Add a texture to the material. Change its type to something interesting. Let’s pick Voronoi for now.
3. Under Influence, uncheck Color. Check Normal.
4. Bake your texture as described above, but instead of setting Bake Mode to Textures, use Normals. Save your image.
5. Look at it. It’s pretty.
6. Import your model and image into Unity. Change your model’s material to Bumped Diffuse. Change your image’s Texture Type to Normal Map. Drag the image onto the model’s material’s normal map texture.

Box modeling

1. Pick an animal.
2. Draw its form on paper. But use nothing but boxes! Heh heh.

TODO

• Watch http://cgcookie.com/blender/2010/07/23/sculpting-blender-2-53/ and some videos on figure modeling. (Feel free to share any good ones.)
• Model a figure.

Haiku