PD Particles tutorial at Gamer-Printshop, and at Comic-Con
by Philip Staiger · in General Discussion · 07/03/2007 (6:58 pm) · 3 replies
Michael Tumey of www.gamer-printshop.com has created a tutorial/review on using PD Particles.
Michael is a game developer, but not of the video games kind: he makes large maps for RPG's, the kinds you see used in conventions like GenCon. At Gamer's Printshop you can have such maps printed and laminated, ready to withstand the occasional (and oh-so predictable) Coke spill.
Nonetheless, PD Particles (and even more so PD Pro) offers interesting tools with the particle brushes, to create top-down (birds-eye) views of the trees and foliage for the maps.
Here's the link - it's in PDF format:
www.gamer-printshop.com/resource/pd-tutorial.pdf
(note: this is a 6 page, 1.3 MB download)
Also: this is for all developers who have been using PD Particles which is available here at GG:
PD Particles will be presented in the booth of Planet Wide Media (www.planetwidegames.com ) which is the maker of Comic Book Creator.
Hope to see you there in Sunny San Diego.
What's Comic-Con? The largest Comics Convention: prolly 110,000 attendees this year.
www.comic-con.org/cci
-Philip
Project Dogwaffle at thebest3d.com - beyond digital painting
Michael is a game developer, but not of the video games kind: he makes large maps for RPG's, the kinds you see used in conventions like GenCon. At Gamer's Printshop you can have such maps printed and laminated, ready to withstand the occasional (and oh-so predictable) Coke spill.
Nonetheless, PD Particles (and even more so PD Pro) offers interesting tools with the particle brushes, to create top-down (birds-eye) views of the trees and foliage for the maps.
Here's the link - it's in PDF format:
www.gamer-printshop.com/resource/pd-tutorial.pdf
(note: this is a 6 page, 1.3 MB download)
Also: this is for all developers who have been using PD Particles which is available here at GG:
PD Particles will be presented in the booth of Planet Wide Media (www.planetwidegames.com ) which is the maker of Comic Book Creator.
Hope to see you there in Sunny San Diego.
What's Comic-Con? The largest Comics Convention: prolly 110,000 attendees this year.
www.comic-con.org/cci
-Philip
Project Dogwaffle at thebest3d.com - beyond digital painting
#2
PD Particles is a painting program, a small subset of PD Pro. The main features in it are the particle brushes, hence the name. It also has bristle brushes, and numerous natural media (oil, airbrush etc...)
More about PD Particles at www.thebest3d.com/pdp
07/03/2007 (11:06 pm)
I know, the name can be confusing: PD (Project Dogwaffle) is a digital painting and animation project. There are several incarnations of it, including PD Artist and PD Pro. It includes a number of types of brushes. One type is the particle brush, which shoots particles from the mouse as you paint. These particles change colors according to a gradient, are subject to gravity and other forces (in PD Pro : image based force fields), and numerous other parameters that can help in creating foliage, trees, bushes, but also hair, waterfalls, fireworks,... lots of stuff.PD Particles is a painting program, a small subset of PD Pro. The main features in it are the particle brushes, hence the name. It also has bristle brushes, and numerous natural media (oil, airbrush etc...)
More about PD Particles at www.thebest3d.com/pdp
#3
07/03/2007 (11:08 pm)
If you want to make textures, especially seamless textures, and animated looping textures, PD Pro is a better tool. It also has tons of filters, and the latest includes animated displacements from the swap buffer: www.thebest3d.com/pdpro/tutorials/animswap 
Torque 3D Owner David Stocker