Hello everyone,

in this new thread I'll present prop maps I've developed for one or another of my projects.

You can assume that each prop map has been carefully tested and checked and can therefore be used immediately.

If you download the prop maps I provide for free and upload them to a picture host of your choice is up to you.

I'll start with a self-developed prop map of a prop that I unfortunately didn't pay enough attention to so far. In my current prop, however, it was of great help to me.

I was faced with the question of how to represent a pallet with make-up or a bar of chocolate in a reasonably pretty and authentic-looking way. There are a number of props available, ranging from the Wall to the Pedestal to the Generic Box or Primitive Cube.

I tried them all, I wasn't really happy with any of the props, either they meant a lot of work like the Generic Box or the Primitive Cube or the performance was bad like the Wall or the Pedestal. And then I stumbled again on the "Sign 3d". The prop map shown by Wraith on his site is not usable for meaningful work, due to its size of 16 x 16 pixels.

So I took the time to enlarge it to 512 x 512 pixel and to create my own map based on the colors distributed on this map. With several attempts I managed to isolate the areas that appear light yellow in the prop map, they represent the narrow sides of the prop.

The red area is assigned to the surface. The image of a make-up pallet or a bar of chocolate simply has to be fitted into this area, with the specified dimensions of 459 x 457 pixels.

If you now carefully place the layer in the red area and give the yellow edges the color that your placed layer has at the edges, usually it is one and the same color on all four sides, then you have it,



This approach also has the advantage that you can work with the low-memory JPG format. Here comes the self developed prop map for the "Sign 3d":



And now I wish you all continued fun, pleasure and success, but above all always stable health,

divingA

Subsequent EDIT: I forgot to mention that, for example, carpets with straight edges can also be easily and authentically represented in this way. If I then just scale the sign 3d down to 0.03 to 0.05 in the Z axis, you have fantastically good looking carpets that rarely require more memory than if you apply the carpet to a paper thin sign_01. The performance of the Sign 3d is then unsurpassably better, because now your feet sink very minimally into the carpet, as they would in real life.

Hello elmer,

Wraith is allowed to use my prop maps as well as anyone else. It has always been this way and will never be any different, if I can be a helping hand to users of this community, I'm happy to do it. Whether users accept the help or not is then their decision.

And at this point another word to the above mentioned map. One or the other may need it in such a way that the outer edge, shown in light yellow in the map, protrudes into the surface. In this case there is nothing more to do than to keep the layer for the surface a little smaller than the dimensions given in the map, and to enlarge the yellow border a little to the same extent instead.

Stay safe and be well everyone, divingA

Hello everyone,

for me a holiday is coming to an end, because today was a holiday in Germany, which I actually celebrate, can and want to celebrate, after all we (East Germans, citizens of the former GDR) were given back freedom and an actual democracy on that day.

In addition to a feast and the visit of some sights reminiscent of this dark GDR time with the family, especially our children, I also had time to once again a little tinker in my graphics program and to handle with pixels.

Some of the results will be given to you later this year, around the 1st of December, that's all I have to say.

But I like to share one of my results with you today. It is a plant that is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental flower in gardens, but is actually a wild plant, the dotted loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata).

Based on the simple prop map of the Alpha Flower (it doesn't matter which one you take), the map shared below can be decorated with the script Cached Web Image.

Since this plant likes to stand in somewhat larger colonies, gladly at brook or forest edges, but also as an ornamental plant in gardens gladly in larger groups, I recommend you the following procedure:

- Create an Alpha Flower Prop
- give it the size of 2,0 x 1,3 x 1,0 for a most realistic and natural appearance
- Script as said above "Cached Web Image", set File Caching to forever and use the Prop Map shown here as Image URL or download the Prop Map and upload it again in the Picture Host of your choice.



- But it is important that you check Texture Translucent, enter a value of 111 and check Texture Double Sidet.

- Finally, place the prop in the garden as desired, then clone it a few times, place the clones paralell next to each other, a few of them rotated 180° each, then you get a nice and realistic looking colony of: Lysimachia punctata, the dotted loosestrife.



Have fun, stay healthy everyone, don't get sidetracked on your paths, don't let others discourage you from going your way,

divingA

Hello everyone,

it's autumn, the nights are already cold, the days sometimes still with friendly sunshine, but often with a fresh cold wind, nice for autumn walks, but in the evening you are home early after a long autumn walk through colored forests.



Here now comes a building instruction for it, made from three props.

You have to start with the prop:

Cast Iron Frying Pan

Give the pan the size of 0.8 x 3.0 x 0.8 in the x, y and z axes.

Now place it on the stove and rotate it as desired.

For the illusion of the Irish Stew you need the Prop Sign_01.

Rotate it to 270° in the x axis, y and z axis stay at 0

Now give the sign the size of 0.19 x 0.19 x 1.0 in the x, y and z axes.

Here is the texture for it, apply it with the script Cached Web Image, because you can never say it enough: remember to set the file caching to Forever.



Now lower it down into the pot until it fits and doesn't stick out anywhere at the edge of the pot, unfortunately this requires some dexterity, but that shouldn't be a problem for you.

And now the most complicated prop: Dummy Model.

Give it the size of 10.0 per axis and place it in the middle of the casserole, about 8 to 10 units higher than the sign.

The needed script is "Emitter", the needed texture file is smoke3a.png.

And now follows the list of values to be entered to make the dummy model make realistic looking steam at the end:

• Particle Life 2
  
• Emitter Life 150
  
• Particles per second 10
  
• Speed 20
  
• Start Scale 0,1
  
• End Scale 0,5
  
• % Life Fading In 50
  
• % Life Fading Out 100
  
• Check Enable Fade
  
• Alpha Scale 0,5
  
• Spawn Cube X 10
  
• Spawn Cube Y 0
  
• Spawn Cube Z 50
  
• Normal X 0
  
• Normal Y 1,0
  
• Normal Z 0

Good luck, have fun, stay healthy,

divingA

Hello everyone,

just in time for St. Patrick's Day, first of all I would like to wish you all a happy and beautiful St. Patrick's Day.

And now for my free gifts for you all on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day.

For my project "Molly Malone's Hotel Cockles and Mussels" (presented here) I developed a market stall at the time, where Irish Coffee is offered as well as - fittingly - delicious Irish apple pie. Because if there's one thing I've learned to appreciate more than anything else in Ireland, it's a delicious Irish coffee, accompanied by a slice of apple pie, which, when enjoyed, makes you forget all about the rain in no time.



On the occasion of the above mentioned St. Patricks Day, I take the liberty to give you the entire booth along with all the equipment.

Let's start with the prop "Vendor Cart". You can find the required prop map here, but like many others it is a PNG file, which means you have to check Texture Translucent in the State tab and enter a value in the corresponding box, I used the value 25.



On top of the market stall there is a prop "Primitive Cube" for the coffee machine, here the prop map for it saved as a jpg file. For the cube I recommend to work with the size relations 1.5 x 1.0 x 1.0.



Then two "Blender" props should be lowered into the cube, one of which should be set to 90° in Y rotation, the other to 270°. The prop maps are again PNG files, I recommend the value 50 for Texture Translucent.



Next we need the prop "Primitive Cylinder", first in the size of 0.30 x 0.16 x 0.30 for authentic cans with spray cream. For this I have two prop maps, one representing full cream, the other what my husband calls unleaded cream, i.e. calorie reduced diet cream.



But we need more "primitive cylinders" now in the size of 1.50 x 0.06 x 1.50, for the apple pies, which are best presented on "Empty Plate" prop. The empty plates then need the size 1.50 x 0.06 x 1.50. Again, there are two different prop maps, one for shortcrust pastry covered apple pie, the other for apple pie covered with sprinkles.



Next, we need the prop "cushion", which should be scaled down to 0.35 x 0.40 x 0.45. With the prop map saved as jpg file, this becomes a bag with the irresistible Irish Coffee Fudge.



Now we slowly come to different whiskies, first some for the prop "Whisky Bottle 4". But please be careful, all prop maps for the various whisky bottles are all PNG files, so that they appear authentically translucent in real life. I recommend working with a value of 10.



For the prop "Whisky Bottle 2" there are two more prop maps, scale the bottles to 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.5 for maximum authenticity.



The best whisky in my eyes, favorite of my husband and also of me Cardhu is available as a prop map for the prop "Whisky Bottle 1", whose size ratio is sensibly worked out with 0.8 x 0.9 x 0.8.



But I have invested most of my personal heart and soul in the upcoming prop, in the "Wine Glas 2". It does not need to be edited in size, but the prop map is also a PNG file again, as value for Texture Translucent I also recommend the value 10.



And with that I say goodbye to you for today, wish you all a above all healthy, but also charming and enjoyable St. Patrick's Day,

divingA

Hello all again,

And here I have a little fun, just out of pleasure. Don't we all know him, the knickknack, who can hardly be slowed down in his enthusiasm for our bookshelves, cupboards and bookshelves? The longer we live, the more we gain!

Yes, I am a German, and so long ago I had the pleasure of photographing a knickknack figure in a shop and then converted it into a texture, that is, the photo freed from all background around the figure.

Now King Frederick the Great, standing with his favorite dog "Biche", but maybe it is also the other favorite dog "Alcméne" can also decorate your bookshelf or living room cupboard, if you want.

All you need is a sign, but the texture is a PNG file, so you have to check "Texture Translucent" in the state tab for the activated script "Cached Web Image" and enter a value in the box, otherwise the "Sign_01" prop gives a bad performance.

Here comes the prop map:



Have fun, stay all healthy, see you again soon, divi

Hello everyone,

almost all of us have a living room or dining room cabinet not only at home, usually with glass doors, where the dishes and glasses for holidays are stored, but also here in RLC.

A prop best suited for these purposes is the Breakfront Bookcase. But beware, so that books, knickknacks or bottles like here:



Or dishes, glasses, vases like here:



are visible behind the glass doors, the Breakfront Bookcase must first be assigned Texture Translucent in the State Tab, with a value entered in the box behind it, starting at 10 when working with the original image from RLC (see the upper screen shot) up to 150 if you have created your own prop map for this purpose, as can be seen in the two screen shots below.

To ensure that PNG files used to display stacked dishes or empty glasses deliver a proper performance, it is necessary to change another value in the State tab, namely "Render Priority". You can find this value at the very bottom of the State tab if you scroll down to the bottom of the list.

In the case of my two dining room cabinets in the two screen shots below, I have given the glasses and the tableware representing Sign_01 props a render priority of 12 to 20. Theoretically, the value doesn't really have to be that high, a simple 1 will suffice in most cases, but if you have for example, glass shelves built into the cabinets like I did, or other sheer items, you'll have to dig a little deeper.

So much for the introduction for the two prop maps I want to share with you today. I'm just putting the links below and not showing the picture because ... well, ... what would you see here if I show a prop map here that represents a glass? Right!!! Nothing! At best a few gray streaks on the white background of the forum "paper".

The first prop map is developed for the prop "Wine Glass 1". As you know, in RLC the glass is filled with red wine. But now you want to have empty glasses hanging in the cupboard or on the glass shelf above the bar, don't you?

Then please use this prop map, which turns the full glass into an empty glass.



The second prop map was developed for the prop "Cocktail Glass". It also turns the full cocktail glass into an empty one.



And now a little tip on how you can bring some variety to the displayed glasses, this is especially interesting for bars, but also for well-stocked dining room cabinets. Take a close look at the following screenshot.



On the glass shelf above the bar counter you can see various glasses, liqueur bowls, red wine glasses, white wine glasses, champagne flutes etc. They were all made from one prop, the "Wine Glass 1", which was just given different size values again and again.

For example, if you give this prop the size 0.60 x 1.8 x 0.60, you have a champagne flute. The size 1.0 x 0.50 x 1.0 makes a liqueur bowl out of the glass, the size values 1.4 x 1.8 x 1.4 make the Wine Glass 1 prop be a fancy Burdeaux goblet. And so on and so on and so on, just keep experimenting yourself, I'll leave that up to you. And yes, of course, you can do the same with the Cocktail Glass prop.

Have fun, good luck, stay healthy, divingA

Hello everyone,

the new project I've been working on for quite a while, which I actually started as my contribution to the ZHS, I'll never get it done on time until the ZHS. I'm missing the hours of work that I have to put into my real work additionally as overtime, but I was probably also a bit too ambitious.

As disappointing as my realistic assessment was for me yesterday, the fact as such also brings undeniable benefits. Namely, I can now continue to decorate with appropriate thoroughness, I no longer need to rush, I can rearrange my agenda and no longer need to systematically finish room by room, but can decorate what comes to mind.

And that brings us to my topic for today. Because I needed to check if I might have poked through the ceiling in the attic with some props on the second floor, I stopped in the attic for a bit. And there I got the desire to design some very special things.

Call me quirky, or weird, I can live with that. I wanted to design some first discarded furniture for the attic. Two old desks, their paint splintering and cracking, the handles on the drawers oxidizing and rusting peacefully away.

An old chest, the paint is peeling, as is the case with two old closets, where the paint is also already peeling more.

If you think, like I do, that in RLC, as nice as it can be sometimes, we don't just need to surround ourselves with brand-new objects, but rather devote ourselves a bit more to the reality in which not only we ourselves, but also the objects around us age, feel free to help yourself with the following propmaps.

Give your attic or basement some reality with items that you have discarded, but for whatever reason have not yet entrusted to the bulky waste.

Here come the propmaps, the first two for the Prop Black Tall Dresser:



followed by two propmaps for the Prop Executive Desk Medium:



And finally a propmap for the Prop Chest:



Anyone may grab these propmaps as any others previously posted, buuuuut !!!! ... the propmaps posted in this post are for once dedicated to a person to whom I myself owe many 1000 inspirations. Thanks for that @ Siren says divingA,

with the reality always preserved by you in your layouts, your reaslism, you will always be a shining model for me.

Have fun all, stay healthy, divingA

Hello all,

it's been a while since I posted flowerpot propmaps here. At that time I promised to share 5 more designs with you. Now I would like to finally put this promise into action.

As always, there are optimized JPG files from me, for each decor there are two propmaps for you. One shows the flowerpot filled with soil, the other shows the surface covered with fine quartz gravel.

All 10 propmaps have been developed exclusively for the prop "Primitive Cylinder".



I wish you all now a lot of fun and success, here in the game as well as in real life, divingA