Book Re-Textures

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               I've been working on some book icon retextures, I was going for a dragon skin look any thoughts? While messing with the retexturing I cut out some book attributes to use to make other variations of books, if anyone would like the source I can make it available on the vault or send it direct either or. I know its not much but hey its something.


               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 10 janvier 2011 - 12:28 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Estelindis]

               They look great - a slightly more scaly leather look to the covers than the standard.  And it's nice to have the details isolated for making our own books.

Oh, what about dynamic, part-based book icons?  Cover, clasp, and decoration for the parts?  Does anyone know if this could work?
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Estelindis, 09 janvier 2011 - 04:01 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Rubies]

               If you get a chance, I'd love that source, if it includes a transparent background (although it probably isn't much effort to add a transparent background, if not). '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Frith5]

               Hey, that's pretty cool. Nice!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Eradrain]

               These are very nice!  You should definitely make them available somewhere, and thank you for offering!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               Estelindis Parts based books would rock, I would have no problem helping with a project like that as I have grown somewhat proficient at disecting images. It would probably need more then 3 sections though, the spine, the lock, the center section, and the corners.



Rubies  I sent you a PM.



Frith thank you for the kind words



Eradrain thanks for the kind words as well, I will upload the source to the vault as soon as I go through the rest of the books and disect any other offerings.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Estelindis]

               I think (possibly wrongly) that part-based icons are hard-coded to have three parts. Which parts would we isolate as distinct elements if that was the case?  Anyway, we'd have to find out first whether it could work or not.



In the meantime, I'd love to have a copy of your resource too.  :-)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_TheSpiritedLass]

               Doesn't Project Q contain some "new" 3 part things?  I vaguely remember seeing amulets done like this.  If so you could check how they did it and apply it to books, which is a real sweet idea.  Nice work on isolating the bits, Birdman.  That level of teeny tiny detail must have taken you a while.  The scaling is very subtle, again, nice work.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               I've uploaded the source files to my mediafire account (forgot I had one lol) the link is provided below. I will be going over the rest of the book offerings and disecting/adding to this and then adding the whole dealio to the vault.

http://www.mediafire...ooks_Source.rar



Thank you for the compliments Lass '> It really wasn't that bad cutting out the attributes, I've done a lot bigger projects that span over a day or two for a cut out in comparison this was cake.


Updated to reflect additions to Source file.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 10 janvier 2011 - 04:39 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Shadooow]

               very nice and cool to have books part based
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_virusman]

               Quick hack:
http://data.virusman...based_books.rar
Part-based books using Birdman's icon parts.
Extract files to your override folder, create new item, select "Books", edit item appearance.
Bottom part is the base book, middle is decoration, top part is currently empty.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par virusman, 09 janvier 2011 - 08:18 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Estelindis]

               Wow - that was quick!  *downloads and checks*  Very nice indeed!  If you don't mind, I shall get to work on this with some refinements.  :-D
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               Wow that is awesome, I really appreciate all the feedback and making this a hak and everything!!!

I am currently working on stripping the books down to bare, here is what I have already.


               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 10 janvier 2011 - 12:28 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Birdman they look great. Couple of thoughts. Any chance of making some stone covers (malachite, marble, tigers-eye etc) or metal (iron, copper, gold) or wood or any other sort of standard texture? The other thought is any chance of converting some of the work you've already done into brushes for programs like gimp or photoshop?



Keep up the good work.



TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               +1 Good stuff.  This sort of collaborative development is fun to watch unfold.