Marianna ^✦✔ @Marianna

So very nice to see you @JamieWright!! I want to stop by your winter region before it is Springtime!! Will you have your educational cultural holiday Roleplay again? I sure hope so, I learned so much visiting they were all thoughtfully created. Merry Christmas 🎄💗🎄🎅🏽💗💗

Thank you @Hugabug, I hope you are doing well, Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏽🎄💗💗💗

Hi Frank, it is nice to see you about!! 😻😻😻😻😻we cannot ever forget the Cat tax!

Surfaces can look shiny, matte, or anywhere in between, depending on roughness and metallic settings. Giving more depth to the scene. Normal maps in PBR create the illusion of depth and texture without adding extra polygons. So that will help with LOD too. I chose to focus on PBR metals for jewelry first because, for jewelry, the interplay of light on metallic surfaces is critical. Jewelry's visual appeal largely comes from its shine, reflections, and intricate details, which PBR captures far better than traditional Blinn-Phong shading.

By prioritizing metals, I wanted to showcase what PBR does best in my specific use case—bringing realism and life to gold, silver, and other metallic finishes.

I am playing with Diamonds right now and I have a GLTF texture for it and it looks okay but Fred showed me how using trans, and glow settings the diamond looks realistic without the GLTF created. I tried this morning and I like the look without the texture so as with any texture creating there is fine tuning to get just how you like it. When I would create my jewelry and apply the textures and see that plastic look it took all the fun out of it. With PBR and shinier metals the jewelry is stunning. Now to perfect my diamonds, or borrow @Ferdzee's Nice work on your PBR @Luna!

I added info on how to use the metals. Some of you might wonder how in the world do I create a GLTF texture? If you need any tips please DM. I have How to info at my sandbox three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Sandbox

The grid will need to be implemented with PBR too. Before my grid was updated (thank you @Ferdzee) I tested at Osgrid.

Thank you very much 💗Happy Birthday Bestie!! 💗

When I first started creating jewelry I discovered that I could use the dingbat fonts for neat jewelry parts. You have to make sure you have permissions especially if you plan to sell the jewelry. Dingbats have all sorts of cool shapes for creating. There are a few steps to make the mesh solid when viewing from a distance. Since it is Christmastime add a little snow with Blender's Real Snow Addon https://youtu.be/VTe9pi_NPgk?si=SlsRtGWzx0RxFx_s

This looks interesting https://youtu.be/k5uKJEF-ZWw I always go here for my RAW terrains: https://opensimworld.com/hop/82029'
And all these resources: Procedural Terrain Generation: The Worldbuilding School offers a tutorial on generating random terrain using Photoshop's built-in filters. This method involves rendering clouds and applying threshold adjustments to create unique landmasses.
WORLDBUILDING SCHOOL

3D Terrain Mapping from Google Maps: For those interested in creating 3D terrain maps without additional plugins, there's a YouTube tutorial that demonstrates how to use Photoshop to transform Google Maps data into 3D terrain models.
YOUTUBE

Topographic Map Patterns: To create topographic map effects, another YouTube tutorial guides you through designing detailed patterns using a combination of Photoshop filters and techniques.
YOUTUBE

Fantasy Map Creation: If you're aiming to design a fantasy map, Instructables provides a step-by-step guide on crafting a random continent map in Photoshop, covering aspects from coastline creation to biome coloring.
INSTRUCTABLES

Terrain Texture Creation: For those focusing on texturing, CRYENGINE's tutorial explains how to use Photoshop's high pass filter to convert photo source material into seamless albedo terrain textures.
CRYENGINE

That was with a quick AI search. Good Luck on this project :)

Thank you @Ferdzee I appreciate all your dedication to this project it is greatly appreciated.

Thank you Luna

Thank you @FerdFrederix!

Thank you 🍇💗

I am so sorry to hear of your loss, those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed, and very dear, keep him close always 💗

Here is some great bumps https://outworldz.com/cgi/free-seamless-textures.plx?c=Mic...

Beetlejuice is roleplayed by @FerdFrederix! Thank you Ferd1

Thank you we have had lots of fun with this :)

https://three.hills.grid.outworldz.net/index.php/addams-fa...

I have PBR jewelry added to the middle section of the store. I tested it in Osgrid using the FS latest PBR viewer, the jewerly is beautiful. I teleported to my 3HG using my Osgrid avatar and the metal is beautiful. Then I logged into 3HG using the PBR viewer and the metal was a bit dark so I adjusted the sky setting and the metal popped with shine! You just cannot edit the texture yet at 3HG - DG will be implemented in the near future too so the good news is the jewelry is going to look a hell of a lot better. Thank you @FerdFrederix for suggesting I give it a try.

I have no doubt your new region will be something enchanting that draws people into your magical world. It is never "gone" Magic lies within each of us 🧙🏽‍♂️🪄🧙🏽‍♂️

Best wishes on getting all restored 🎃💕🎃