Dusting off some old content

Specifically, the Transpond Covered Bridge from the RuntimeDNA store. It didn’t make it to DAZ, sadly, and it doesn’t appear the DAZ store has anything comparable (or at least a search for “covered bridge” didn’t turn up anything.)

Coming up with terrain — a bridge needs something to bridge — meant cobbling together a bunch of props, and then I was reminded yet again that I need to buy more snowy pine trees. My selection is limited.

Terrain kit-bashed from:

Flipmode’s Easy Environments Winter for the pine trees, the snowy road add-on from the RDNA Country Cottage bundle (no longer available), the morphing snow pile and morphing snow terrain that were freebies for RDNA’s Christmas freebie fests (so also gone), and the terrain from Most Digital Creation’s Winter Wonderland.

Unless I’m mistaken, that last one isn’t UV mapped; I couldn’t add a texture to it. I ended up making all the snow the same color and then adding texture in postwork. I used a snow seamless tile I made from a public domain image:

Feel free to download it and use it for your projects.

Everything else:

Transpond Covered Bridge, Snow for RDNA Covered Bridge, Lyne’s Little Birds, 40 Ice and Snow Tiles, and Ice Patterns.

I have the SAMS3D bridge too; it was a Renderosity Christmas give-away some years back. It’s not available anymore either. The snow add-on is a freebie, as are the birds. I don’t have any other cardinals, though KenG at Hivewire probably has one somewhere in his numerous bird sets.

The texture on the frozen river (a primitive cube) was from one of those two free ice texture sets; I don’t remember which one though. The Ice Patterns set was by Frozenstar and was, I think, part of a Christmas give-away a few years back. It doesn’t appear to be available.

Snow overlays from the PixelBuddha (link a few posts back.)

Halloween trans maps for tablecloths

More bits and pieces for an elegantly spooky Halloween scene. I made a few transmaps for tablecloths that, alas, are now unavailable:

 

Still, a few folks probably have these installed so decided to share anyway.

The first is an old RDNA Real Deal set, the second is a DAZ Holiday PA freebie from a few years back, and the third — Decor Throws — is an old freebie that’s long gone. The Real Deal tablecloth and decor throw set might work okay with any round or square cloth prop. I can’t use dForce on my machine, but again the transparency maps should work okay on anything that’s round or square.

Click to view the full-size image and save:


RDNA Real Deal Round Tablecloth


Holiday End Table Runner


Square Cloth – Spider Lace


Square Cloth – Spider & Web Lace


Square Cloth – Web Lace

What they look like in use:

 

Just plug them into the transparency channel at 100%. You can use them with a diffuse color or with a texture. The examples above were rendered with velvet fabric I made in Filter Forge. (Doesn’t work with tiled textures though; I’m not aware of any way to decouple the tiling ratios for diffuse and transparency maps in DS.)