Hello people, today I will make my first tutorial, how to make a potion!. But first, I would like to give credit to fencepost for creating this tutorial: http://www.gimptalk.com/topic.php?a=v&t=187&f=8 , which taught me how to make the glass orb for my potion. To do this you must have a basic understanding of the "Map Objects" tool, "Selections" tool, and "Layers", Okay lets get started:

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CREATING POTIONS IN GIMP

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1. Create a new image, 400 X 400.

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2. Rename your background layer "Container" and add 3 transparency layers and rename them "Liquid", "Cork" and "Top".



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3. Now with the "Container" layer selected, go to Filters >> Map >> Map Objejct and set the settings like this:



leave the "Orientation" tab "Rotation" settings all zeroes

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4. Now go to Filters >> Colors >> Color To Alpha, and click on the white box, now in the Html Notation box type in b7b7b7.



Now for a better effect, duplicate your "Container" layer and merge it down.

your image should look like this so far:



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5. Now Select your "Liquid" layer and grab your "Rectangle Selection" tool (Tools >> Selection Tools >> Rect Select) and select about two thirds of your "Container", mine is 246 pixles high (MAKE SURE YOUR SELECTION COVERS THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF THE IMAGE!!!), like this:



Fill the selection with the color you want your liquid to be, again, make sure your "Liquid" layer is selected.

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6. Deselect your layer (Select >> None). Now go to Filters >> Map >> Map Objects, and set the settings like in step 3, but in the "Orientation" tab, set the "Z" in "Rotation" to 9.0 like this:



Your picture should now look like this:



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7. Now select your "Top" layer and fill it with solid white, Repeat step 3 but instead of "Map To: Sphere" drop down and select "Map To: Cylinder". Set Theese settings:



Now repeat step 4 with your "Top" layer.

Your image should now look like this:



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8.Okay, now we are almost done! Select your "Cork" layer and take a dark-yellow-orange color, for example, try #d29900. fill your whole "Cork" layer with it and Go to Filters >> Map >> Map Object and "Map to Cylinder" with theese setings:



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9. Congratulations! you are done!!! Lets add the final touches:

Put the layers in this order (top to bottom) :

"Top"

"Cork"

"Container"

"Liquid"

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10. It should look fairly realistic now. this is my result:



Happy GIMP'n ^_^

-da nite slaya

Criticsicm and compliment accepted ^_^

The outcome is nice, good job.

You should try to add the tutorial on adding a rippling water effect somehow.

Thank you for the i dea but ive tried that and the outcome is very... screwd up :a: . can u help me make the effect?

Very nice step by step tutorial. Moved t oofficial illustrated tutorials.

Thanks for sharing.

regards

TY soooo Much! :l:

hey? ur birthday is on the 3rd? wow, Mine is on the fourth :

Will anyone help me with the ripplin effect, I can't get it rite.

I have one thing to say in response to this tutorial:

"I'll get you my pretty! And your little dog too!"

Heh, just that word potion made me think if the Wicked Witch on the Wizard of Oz.

Nice tutorial, nice results. :l:

Here is my attempt



To geta liquidy ripple to the liquid layer i used the bases of this tutorial you dont need to do the black layer, shrink by 2 pixels or the shine layer.

nice, I like it!

This is what I got. :a:

hmmm... id guess ur one of those people who likes to experiment (which is good if u do a little experimenting)... a little too much :a:.

theese are your mistakes.

[*]U did not set the light correctly

[*]U did not select the whole canvas of the image

[*]U did not set the cylynder cap faces like in the tut

Sorry for criticising so much, i just wanted to show u where u went wrong
:l:, No hard feelings

Hmm, when I started, mine had a black ring around it. I don't know what that is, or means. I followed all your settings, and it remained. I am continueing on trying to follow the steps, but they are a bit tough for me; I'm fairly new to GIMP.

~~Joe

Post an image of wut u got. :l:

Heyy... I tried this tutorial, and this is what I got:

nice but u need to pay attenttion to the cork settings. Other than that it's nice, i like the liquid. :l:

Very nice..but can someone help me? I know this is not the right place to ask, but how come I can't create my own topics? everytime i click new topic, it says "you cannot post new topic in this forum"...is it because I am new here?

Thanks, and yea I know I messed up with that.
I added something to the liquid, but I forgot what I did... lol.. :l:

Babyang:lol thats funny:l:

Predator: u need to go to the user created tutorials not the official tutorials :l:. if its good enough, ali imran will move it for you.

How do I select Layers?I'm kinda new here and also each time I click on container and do the Map object part,it shows a new window with a sphere but with black stuff around it and it has only one layer.Maybe it's because I don't know how to select or somthing like that?

This is what I got:

Hmm.. I'm curiously if there are more 3d-Object tut like this one .

there's a flower one that I made!

Cool tut, I gotta try it sometime.

SWEEEEEET MAN THANK YOU THANK YOU *KISSING HUGGING BEAR HUG* THANK YOU MAN that's gonna help me a lot with the game development of THY QUEST :l: :l: :l: ups. I think I squished that guy little too much : :

theres a black cylinder around it :

Yeh it is good, however I suggest you change the lighting effect on the glass, and maybe make the potion slightly transparent with maybe a bit of turbulence in the water since at the moment it looks a bit too still which is what I think the people talking about ripples were talking about. But it looks really cool, the flower tut is good aswell btw did it and got some cool effects avec my artistic licence

thats cool..yeh i want to know if there are any more 3d tuts going around