Bamboo time

So recently i came back from disneyland paris and noticed that there 'adventureland' area was almost a tropical jungle. I decided to take note of the plants they had growing there. Mainly it was bamboo, ferns and palms oh and palm ferns. Well i had already made a fern for everyone so i decided, why not make some bamboo?

So first to start off im going to use milkshape for this one , since it is low poly modeling and milkshape is easy to use when making small things.

using the cylinder tool i made the base. 5 stacks , 10 slices.

just like so , i also added some curve to it by selecting the vertices and rotating and moving them.

ok now we need to add the leaves to it.

for this we use a simple 1 by 1 plane. like so.


ok now im going to cover the top half with them.


ok now that's sorted for a bit. im going to save and make the texture.

The texture.

OK so many people paint their own which is the best way to do it. The only problem is that it is very time consuming.

instead im going to make my texture from a photo.

i just randomley searched bamboo in google and picked up this one.

from here http://daddylonglegstilts.com/wp-content/uploads/bamboo1-800x563.jpg

the reason i picked this particular image is because of a straight piece in the bamboo.


after using photoshops polygon lassoo , i took out the piece. rotated it. duplicated it and made a green square in case the UV map doesn't fully fit. So this is what i have so far.

note that there is a white part , that is transparent. It just doesn't show in .jpg's


ok lets have a look at this on our model.


I dont think that is too bad considering that it is rendered using milkshape and that it has no maps yet.

ok now for the leaves.

once again a bit of google image searching gave me this.

thanks to http://melissaweaverlmt.com/images/bamboo-leaves.jpg

a quick magic wand tool and delete gave me my leaves and then i just copied and pastes onto the current map we have.


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ok milkshape just threw an exception for some strange reason and is now saying that my save file is corrupt. Never mind , i have just remade another bamboo plant.

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ok now , here is what i have made.

it should hopefully look a lot better when rendered with shaders/maps and in an advanced program.