Saturday, September 25, 2010

Rolling

Not stones. I wasn't thinking of moss, and neither were you. Although both of us are now I guess. Let's stop.

I took the die from yesterday, modified it a bit, duplicated it (Shift-D in Blender, nearly everything has a keyboard shortcut (designed for power users, remember?)), and rotated them all around a bit, in different directions, so they looked like they had just been rolled out on to a table. With some of them still falling, and spinning.

A very shiny table. In fact one that makes a good impersonation of a mirror. Without the "mirror, mirror on the wall" banter. To do this you have to turn on ray-tracing, which is trick for getting light to bounce of mirrors, and do other things that light does. And give somewhat realistic effects.

The modifications were making the single pip twice as large as the others, and pushing each of the six faces in a little to make the corners tighter. Better for rolling. Not that these virtual dice will ever touch a real table. Or moss for that matter. Sorry, I shouldn't have reminded you.

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