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FI
http://www.infoseek.livedoor.com/
~f_ichikawa/
Plug-ins by Fujio Ichikawa
Texture Editor | Procedural Type pop-up
menu.
What makes this cool
: Using
mathe-
matics
to define a texture as opposed to
painting
one will more often than not give
you a better-looking texture that uses far
less memory and looks good both from a
great distance and at close range.
Notes
: The README and, more impor-
tantly, the sample scenes (under the Intel
directory) will get you up
to speed the quickest on
how to use each one of
these new procedurals.
FI's Procedural Textures
(Intel)
Full Version
What it is
: fisptxtrs.p adds
seven
new pro-
cedural textures to choose from under your
Figure A-9
FI's Wrinkle
(Intel, Mac OS9, Mac OSX)
Full Version
FI's Wrinkle adds works perfectly with
sub-patches and only adds the minimum
amount of geometry to keep the detail in
place.
What it is
: Modeler => Utilities | Addi-
tional | FI's_Wrinkle will “wrinkle” your
model along a “seam” desig-
nated by your point selection.
You drag your mouse left or
right to change the depth of
the wrinkle and up or down
to change its width.
What makes this cool
:
You can quickly add detail to a
mesh that holds up under
scrutiny far better than any
painted texture. The detail
Figure A-10: This model is the Peixe+Wrinkles.lwo that is found in each
of the different computer platform directories for this plug-in.
