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e) Drawing pattern with freeze



Pic.8 Drawing in line mode.

Point first point of the line, then move to the place of last point and point there. Press Esc to cancel the first point.

NOTE There are Undo [Ctrl+Z] and Redo [Ctrl+Y] commands.

In the end you will get pattern similar to the one shown on Pic.9



Pic.9 Pattern of freeze.

Now you can press 4 to exit «view wireframe» mode.

Don't forget to save your work.

g) Filling pattern with color and specular

At first invert freeze

In the «Menu of freeze regime» press [select command] and select «Invert freeze / selection»



Pic.10 Menu of freeze regime.

Now your pattern is free from feeze and all other surface is frozen.

Let's make it a little bit convex.

Go to Tools->Filling



Pic.11 Fill tool.

Than go to right side of the screen and click right mouse button under the color channel and specular channel to disable drawing in these channels. Then move the mouse arrow to Depth channel and set Depth — 20.

Pic.12 Color and specular channel.
Pic.13 Set depth.

Move pen to the pattern an click on it to fill it with Depth to make it convex.



Pic.14 Fill pattern with Depth.

Now let's paint this area with color, specular and depth.

- enable color and specular channel (click right mouse button on them)

- in the Filling mode select modulation type — Fractal N1.

Here you can set different options of Fractal filling and then click on your pattern:



Pic.15 Filling options.

Please try to choose your own parameters to make your pattern more similar to natural metal color.

You can save your presets by clicking on «Add preset» button in the right top part of screen.

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