PdN Die (As in Dice ;)) Comments Please! + Random Ball

[AndyP]

Well, first post

I saw Ash's die tutorial, couldn't figure out a few steps until the following week, but managed to make a fairly realistic looking die from scratch! I might post a tutorial if I figure out how to lessen the steps, my way was not very efficient! Here it is:

And a random ball that made me think of zelda for some reason 8) I think it is the rhombus around the black opening

please leave a comment on how I could improve either of these! Thanks!

[007 Nab]

I like your idea on the dots on the cube -- they just need to be a bit more anti aliased. That also goes for yor sphere -- remember to check the box Anti-Aliasing" in Shape 3D. It will make the edges look much smoother.

If you didn't save it as a .pdn, you can still apply a radial blur to the sphere (at very low degrees) and it will make the edges nicer.

Good job overall, I hope to see a lot more from you!

Nab

[AndyP]

Thank you very much! And luckily, from reading a bit, I knew to save a gif as well as pdn, so I will work on that ASAP

[007 Nab]

If you save as a .png, it still has transparency, but has NO quality loss. That way your colors remain just how you saw them in your PDN window. I prefer to save as .png over saving as .gif, unless I'm purposely not going for high quality.

[Max Power]

Short time ago I had the same idea... -->

The ball looks like madjik's caleidogen plugin... nice work though

[AndyP]

I like the falling dice, and I think I might incorporate it. There is a plugin? Yay! Gonna have to look it up, thanks for comment, I should switch these to thumbnails soon, and I am thinking of undertaking a bigger project in a few days, a more suitable siggy

[Crimson]

Short time ago I had the same idea... -->

The ball looks like madjik's caleidogen plugin... nice work though

That's kaleidoscope.

Personally, i think the sphere looks very cool

keep working with paint.net!

[moeshere]

Andy I would have to say you did a great job on it really like the way the dots look. and max love the falling dice I have'nt tryed that one yet but I did do some reading on that one. But me like a lot of the rest. You guys help so much in here that it gives us a lot to learn and understand but that thanks goe's out to all of you that do work on making this program. and helping everybody to understand it

Thank you all again.

[anonymous6366]

I liked that sphere. It looked really cool 8)