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Using Meld

Rodrigo Duarte Aug, 15th 2012 1 Comment

Meld –formerly known as Metaballs– is a modeling command that enables us to merge two or more objects (spheres or polygon meshes) into a single object with a "liquid" appearance. We shall see how to use it and some interesting properties thereof.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
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Perpetual Rotation – Lua Script

Rodrigo Duarte Aug, 13th 2012

CX Animation, CX Beginner, CX Intermediate

Another sprocket, another way to make things rotate. Besides keyframing and using the cycle attribute, another good way to make things rotate continuously is using a Lua Script. Among the scripts available with Strata Design 3D is a continuous rotation script, that enables us to make things rotate continually at the same speed in any of the three axes.

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Adding Fog to a Scene

Rodrigo Duarte Aug, 6th 2012 5 Comments

CX Beginner

There is a little used 'Air' tab in the Environment panel in Strata 3D. It allows us to do several things. We'll add a Fog Shader to the whole scene and explore the options the Fog Shader offers us.

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Quick Mountains Using a Height Map

Rodrigo Duarte Aug, 5th 2012 2 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Intermediate, CX Modeling

We will learn to create quick mountains importing a bitmap file and converting it into a Mesh. The ability to import a bitmap image and have its grayscale information converted into a mesh is a great tool.

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Using the Mock Tile Shader

Rodrigo Duarte Jul, 28th 2012 0 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Texturing, Design 3D CX

Strata 3D has several shaders, also known as procedural textures. Shaders do not use image maps, but are controlled through parameters. We shall learn how the Mock Tile shader works.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
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Using the Ripple Shader

Rodrigo Duarte Jul, 27th 2012 0 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Texturing

The Ripple shader is a great tool for creating quick liquid surfaces. We'll explore some of the options of the shader here, using a pool scene as an example.

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Using Meld

Perpetual Rotation – Lua Script

Adding Fog to a Scene

Quick Mountains Using a Height Map

Using the Mock Tile Shader

Using the Ripple Shader