Preserved Topic: Gear tutorial -- almost...

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I have been looking for a tutorial on making gears for some time. Finally I had arrived at NeoFrogs place and found one. Then, on the same day, I had come across another gear tutorial that was the same thing. Is there no end to the copy layer / transform method?

Sure there is. Rather than write up a tutorial and send you to it, I have zipped up a PSD and uploaded it. I know, it's not quite the same, but I'm sure damn near all of you folks can figure it out.

All it really took was some creative use of grids, circles, polar coordinates, and some very savy channel operations. I prefer this method as it allows more control over some aspects right off of the bat. Like the spacing and number of teeth. But alas, it does have draw backs over the other method.

The PSD isn't the cleanest, but it gets the method across for those of you willing to take a peek. Once you get the final alpha, dressing it up shouldn't be problem.
http://www.tir.com/~lhalmich/gear.zip

http://fa.regeringen.se/

Animated gears, ripped from a photosgraph, for one of the departements here in the swedsih government. No real help for how to do gears, this just reminded me of a headache I once had! :-)

Your pal, -doc-

I made this a couple years ago... not too helpful for what you're asking, but it's kinda neat nonetheless. It's just a circle with squares on the edge, given a metalic texture.

{Edit: It looks a lot better on a white background.}

[This message has been edited by Slime (edited 27-08-2000).]

ok......... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... being kinda "paranoid"... I shall take your word for it!. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/redface.gif">

There are two easy ways to achieve gears, in my opinion. Create a bar in the center and duplicate and rotate it like 10 degrees or something over the span of the 360, then add a circle over it all, or cut arcs out of a circle....

don't know who made them but I err ummm 'borrowed' these for a sig I but together at another board

THAT'S A SIG!? For Bob's sake it's bigger than your text! Holy hell!

No it isnt Sloloem. Actually the sig is pretty small ... maybe your eyes are just playing tricks on you ... I suggest getting that checked out ...

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Oh, uhm...I opened that PSD file in my photoshop and you know what I saw? I saw a 400x400 pixel black square. could you fix that, warjournal?

Jestah, what the fuck are you talking about. That sig is at least 400x400.

i did eventually make it a bit smaller I worked with it at that size putting together the gif but at the board I was on they did things big...heh heh
the sigs got huge at one point...
this was another one... anyone know who made the dragon??


jesus that sucks on a dark background... should cut it closer


[This message has been edited by Boomzilla8 (edited 31-08-2000).]

Sorry, Sloloem. I left out one little detail. Check the alpha channels and you will see. There is one standard and two simple variations. However, like I said earlier, it's not the cleanest. The grid I used wasn't evenly divisible by 3 so on one part of the gear it's kind of lop-sided.

Remember, some basic alpha channels, a polar distort, and then some savy channel ops. I'm not one for writing tutorials, but you should be able to figure it out. Sorry for the inconvenience.