A way to create a straw for your lemonade drink (2017-08-29)

[MadJik]

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

 

A way to create a straw for your lemonade drink

 

First of all, try to work with large images (4000x4000) the finishing will be better after reduction.

But for this tutorial I will use 400x400.

 

Plugins needed:

Gridmaker https://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=4175 

Paneling (optional) https://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=2617 

Shape3D https://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=18968 

(be sure to have the latest version if you want to use the XML files)

 

1.

Create your image (400x400 in my case). The color of the background will be the main color of the straw. White is good but you could test other colors.

   <-- yes it is a white image

 

 

2.

Add a new layer. Run Gridmaker plugin with these settings.

 

 

25 is to have 16x16 squares checker. This number (16) should by a multiple of 4 for a better result.

 

 

 

 

3.

Using the magic wand tool select the 8 white squares of the top line.

  

 

 

4.

Hide the top layer. The white layer is now active with the 8 selected squares.

Press M to switch to movement mode. Click and drag to make the selection on the full height of the image.

 

 

 

5.

Choose the primary and secondary colors you want for the lines of the straw.

And with the paint bucket fill each part of the selection with primary and secondary colors alternatively.

 

 

 

6.

These lines are too width. To shrink them invert the selection (Ctrl+I). The white bars are selected. Press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (copy and paste). You should be in movement mode (if not press M). Use the right cursor key (on the keyboard) to move the white bars 6 to 10 times (pixels) on the right (over the colored bars).

 

 

 

7.

Press Enter to finish the selection. This was easy till now!

 

 

 

8.

You could let the bars vertical or you could rotate them to create a regular spiral around the straw. For the second choice, we need to create an endless texture with the bars (bar going out of the image on the right side must fit with another bar entering on the left side. Use the Rotate/zoom tool (Ctrl+shift+Z) with these settings:

 

9.

You could check if the image is seamless by using the paneling plugin. if you move horizontally you should have continuous lines without step.

Vertically doesn't matter for this tutorial.

 

 

10.

Last step. Use the Shape3D plugin with these settings (or xml file). http://jcljay.free.fr/pdn/straw.xml (right-click, save as...)

Green are required, Orange are as you want to play with rotation, size, light, etc.

 

Final result

Have you ever looked Inside?

 

 

Other examples.

This is the xml for "Inside the straw" http://jcljay.free.fr/pdn/strawinside.xml (right-click, save as...)

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

[Seerose]

 @MadJik! WOW!!! That is fine tutorial.   Thank you so much for your effort and sharing.  

 

Edited April 16, 2018 by Seerose
Forget a letter!

[lynxster4]

This is pretty cool @MadJik!  I will try this out.  Thank you for posting!       

[Maximilian]

Really nice tutorial, @MadJik

Many thanks for your efforts!! 

[toe_head2001]

Steps 2-7 with the Tartan plugin:

 

[MadJik]

@toe_head2001 plugins makers are the best to use their own plugins. Good idea, then you still have to show us your straw outside your tartan.

(I'm asking myself if this is as word joke somehow?)

 

Thanks everyone for reading this and your comments.

[toe_head2001]

19 minutes ago, welshblue said:

the xml file isn't loading the settings your screenshot shows.  That's by the by though, nice easy tut to follow

 

That's a bug with Shape3D; it doesn't know how to handle a mismatch with the localized decimal points in the XML file.

i.e. The XML file was made on a computer with the decimal set to a comma, but your computer has the decimal set to a dot.

 

I'll talk to ERR about getting this fixed in Shape3D.

In the mean time, you can change your decimal point settings, or simply modify the XML file.

[lynxster4]

Weeeeeeeeee............I made candy sticks!   This is pretty cool as I said in previous post.  I have a couple of ideas already!

Thanks, again @MadJik !     

 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

 

7 hours ago, toe_head2001 said:

I'll talk to ERR about getting this fixed in Shape3D.

In the mean time, you can change your decimal point settings, or simply modify the XML file.

 

For the meantime, modify the XML file. Any text editor will do the job. Open the file and replace all instances of the comma being used as a decimal separator in a number with a period.

 

Here's the edited XML for non-European countries...

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Shap3DSettingData xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <Version>2</Version>
    <ObjectType>Cylinder</ObjectType>
    <ObjectData>
        <Sphere>
            <Scaling>1</Scaling>
            <HorizontalRadius>1</HorizontalRadius>
            <DepthRadius>1</DepthRadius>
            <VerticalRadius>1</VerticalRadius>
            <TextureMap>0</TextureMap>
            <TextureScale>1</TextureScale>
            <TextureRotate>0</TextureRotate>
        </Sphere>
        <Cylinder>
            <Scaling>2.03</Scaling>
            <HorizontalRadius>0.06</HorizontalRadius>
            <DepthRadius>0.06</DepthRadius>
            <Height>5.00</Height>
            <RoundedEdges>0</RoundedEdges>
            <TextureMap>0</TextureMap>
            <TextureScale>1</TextureScale>
            <TextureRotate>0</TextureRotate>
            <CylinderEnd>
                <TopStyle>Flat</TopStyle>
                <TopHeightOfBall>1</TopHeightOfBall>
                <BottomStyle>Flat</BottomStyle>
                <BottomHeightOfBall>1</BottomHeightOfBall>
            </CylinderEnd>
            <Face>
                <Top>False</Top>
                <Body>True</Body>
                <Bottom>False</Bottom>
            </Face>
        </Cylinder>
        <Box>
            <Scaling>1</Scaling>
            <Width>1</Width>
            <Depth>1</Depth>
            <Height>1</Height>
            <RoundedEdges>0</RoundedEdges>
            <TextureMap>0</TextureMap>
            <TextureScale>1</TextureScale>
            <TextureRotate>0</TextureRotate>
            <Face>
                <Front>True</Front>
                <Rear>True</Rear>
                <Top>True</Top>
                <Bottom>True</Bottom>
                <Left>True</Left>
                <Right>True</Right>
            </Face>
        </Box>
    </ObjectData>
    <ObjectRotation>
        <Axis1>
            <Type>X</Type>
            <Angle>270</Angle>
        </Axis1>
        <Axis2>
            <Type>Y</Type>
            <Angle>180.0</Angle>
        </Axis2>
        <Axis3>
            <Type>Z</Type>
            <Angle>0</Angle>
        </Axis3>
    </ObjectRotation>
    <MovePosition>
        <X>0</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
    </MovePosition>
    <Projection>
        <CameraAngle>10.6</CameraAngle>
    </Projection>
    <AntiAlias>
        <Switch>True</Switch>
        <Leval>5</Leval>
    </AntiAlias>
    <Transparency>
        <Switch>True</Switch>
        <AlphaChannel>144</AlphaChannel>
    </Transparency>
    <Lighting>
        <Switch>True</Switch>
        <StrengthOfLight>2</StrengthOfLight>
        <Direction>
            <X>-1.00</X>
            <Y>1</Y>
            <Z>-1.00</Z>
        </Direction>
        <Color>
            <R>255</R>
            <G>255</G>
            <B>255</B>
        </Color>
        <Lambert>
            <AmbientLighting>0.35</AmbientLighting>
            <DiffuseReflectionRate>1</DiffuseReflectionRate>
        </Lambert>
        <SpecularHilight>
            <Switch>True</Switch>
            <SpecularReflectionRate>0.3</SpecularReflectionRate>
            <HilightModel>Phong</HilightModel>
            <Phong>
                <PhongSize>50</PhongSize>
            </Phong>
            <CookTorrance>
                <RefractiveRate>1.4</RefractiveRate>
                <Luster>
                    <LusterType>Anisotropy</LusterType>
                    <Isotropy>0.2</Isotropy>
                    <AnisotropyX>0.3</AnisotropyX>
                    <AnisotropyY>0.15</AnisotropyY>
                </Luster>
            </CookTorrance>
        </SpecularHilight>
    </Lighting>
</Shap3DSettingData>

 

[Seerose]

 @lynxster4!    Thanks for the new addition!   

[Seerose]

 @toe_head2001!    Thank you so much for the hint.    

[Pixey]

Lovely tut @MadJik.  You are so clever   Why can't I think of these mathematical tricks with Plugins

 

 

[toe_head2001]

^^ Nice water refraction

[MadJik]

50 minutes ago, Pixey said:

Why can't I think of these mathematical tricks with Plugins

Why do you think I use sort of mathematical tricks?

A lot of do/undo/redo in my tests. And when I found the right thing and when I have to describe how to do it, then it could seem mathematical. Not my fault!

[MadJik]

Have you tried to look inside?

Spoiler

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Shap3DSettingData xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <Version>2</Version>
    <ObjectType>Cylinder</ObjectType>
    <ObjectData>
        <Sphere>
            <Scaling>1</Scaling>
            <HorizontalRadius>1</HorizontalRadius>
            <DepthRadius>1</DepthRadius>
            <VerticalRadius>1</VerticalRadius>
            <TextureMap>0</TextureMap>
            <TextureScale>1</TextureScale>
            <TextureRotate>0</TextureRotate>
        </Sphere>
        <Cylinder>
            <Scaling>2.03</Scaling>
            <HorizontalRadius>0.06</HorizontalRadius>
            <DepthRadius>0.06</DepthRadius>
            <Height>5.00</Height>
            <RoundedEdges>0</RoundedEdges>
            <TextureMap>0</TextureMap>
            <TextureScale>1</TextureScale>
            <TextureRotate>0</TextureRotate>
            <CylinderEnd>
                <TopStyle>Flat</TopStyle>
                <TopHeightOfBall>1</TopHeightOfBall>
                <BottomStyle>Flat</BottomStyle>
                <BottomHeightOfBall>1</BottomHeightOfBall>
            </CylinderEnd>
            <Face>
                <Top>False</Top>
                <Body>True</Body>
                <Bottom>False</Bottom>
            </Face>
        </Cylinder>
        <Box>
            <Scaling>1</Scaling>
            <Width>1</Width>
            <Depth>1</Depth>
            <Height>1</Height>
            <RoundedEdges>0</RoundedEdges>
            <TextureMap>0</TextureMap>
            <TextureScale>1</TextureScale>
            <TextureRotate>0</TextureRotate>
            <Face>
                <Front>True</Front>
                <Rear>True</Rear>
                <Top>True</Top>
                <Bottom>True</Bottom>
                <Left>True</Left>
                <Right>True</Right>
            </Face>
        </Box>
    </ObjectData>
    <ObjectRotation>
        <Axis1>
            <Type>X</Type>
            <Angle>270</Angle>
        </Axis1>
        <Axis2>
            <Type>Y</Type>
            <Angle>180.0</Angle>
        </Axis2>
        <Axis3>
            <Type>Z</Type>
            <Angle>0</Angle>
        </Axis3>
    </ObjectRotation>
    <MovePosition>
        <X>0</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
    </MovePosition>
    <Projection>
        <CameraAngle>10.6</CameraAngle>
    </Projection>
    <AntiAlias>
        <Switch>True</Switch>
        <Leval>5</Leval>
    </AntiAlias>
    <Transparency>
        <Switch>True</Switch>
        <AlphaChannel>144</AlphaChannel>
    </Transparency>
    <Lighting>
        <Switch>True</Switch>
        <StrengthOfLight>2</StrengthOfLight>
        <Direction>
            <X>-1.00</X>
            <Y>1</Y>
            <Z>-1.00</Z>
        </Direction>
        <Color>
            <R>255</R>
            <G>255</G>
            <B>255</B>
        </Color>
        <Lambert>
            <AmbientLighting>0.35</AmbientLighting>
            <DiffuseReflectionRate>1</DiffuseReflectionRate>
        </Lambert>
        <SpecularHilight>
            <Switch>True</Switch>
            <SpecularReflectionRate>0.3</SpecularReflectionRate>
            <HilightModel>Phong</HilightModel>
            <Phong>
                <PhongSize>50</PhongSize>
            </Phong>
            <CookTorrance>
                <RefractiveRate>1.4</RefractiveRate>
                <Luster>
                    <LusterType>Anisotropy</LusterType>
                    <Isotropy>0.2</Isotropy>
                    <AnisotropyX>0.3</AnisotropyX>
                    <AnisotropyY>0.15</AnisotropyY>
                </Luster>
            </CookTorrance>
        </SpecularHilight>
    </Lighting>
</Shap3DSettingData>

Save this code in a file like inside.xml and load it with Shape3D

 

[Pixey]

Yes, I looked inside - looks like mambo-jumbo to me .   Just proves you are a mathematical whizz  (as are the others who write this CS stuff.)

[ScrapbookWithPDN]

Oh, I love this!!!