Ground Scenery How To Create A Basic Wooden Plank

[Prophecy82]

In this current tutorial, I will go over the basic concept of creating a wooden plank tile.
For this example we will create vertical planks instead of the normal (Horizontal).

Step 1 - Selecting Your Victims! I Mean Colors!!


Step 2 - Creating Four Rectangles
From the top of the canvas, from the top left, count seven (7) spots and mark it off, leave one (1) blank spot, then continue with the seven spot until you have four (4) rectangles.

Once all four rectangles have been created, go to the four white lines and fill them in with the line out color for transparent lines.


Step 3- Creating The Deception! Of Depth!! aka Adding Shade
Use your lightest color and highlight the top, of the rectangles.

Use your darkest color and highlight the bottom of the rectangles.

We now have a basic wooden plank tile, go ahead an test it out. Make sure you like the colors you choose before proceeding. This is the time to go back and modify the color choices.


Step 4 -Creating A Pattern & Adding Depth
Here are two (2) optional patterns you can work with, but for the tutorial I will stick with my original.


For my original design, I will attempt a shaded wave and follow up with some circles using the smallest size of the round circle tool.

Going to use a dark color to highlight some of the circles and apply some random dots as accents.

Save your design and test it out. I am definitely satisfied with my design


OPTIONAL MODIFICATIONS

Creating A Jointed Appearance
From the bottom and top of the canvas, in the transparent space, count (6) space mark it off, and use a favorable color and mark three spaces.
See photo for reference.



Creating A Jointed-Stitched Appearance
Follow the previous modification setup, but in the spaces between the connectors, make dots in ever other space. See photo for reference.



Creating A Jointed-Stitched Appearance Railroad Tile
Follow the previous modification setup, but we are going to remove a line from both the top and bottom of the canvas with the transparent color. Then following Step 3 in the original tutorial, fill in the light and dark shades.

Now I am going to use two (2) light grayish colors and fill in the transparent lines; I am using a very light gray and light blue-ish gray, and I will alternate every other space.

Save your tile and test it out.

Note: The reason I used the jointed-stitched appearance for the railroad design because it already incorporated the look of have the railroad nails on both the bottom and top of the planks.

Examples Coming Soon...

 

[rayraysparkles]

sooo good thank you!

 

[Prophecy82]

Thank you!

 

[Zura]

So you can have the acnl train tracks in your town without the annoying train that's always in the way haha

 

[Vintage Viola]

These look very nice!

 

[Prophecy82]

So you can have the acnl train tracks in your town without the annoying train that's always in the way haha

Yup, damn those tracks from blocking me getting to my main street.

 

[rayraysparkles]

He doesn't admit it, but he secretly pretends to be a train

 

[Mick]

So you can have the acnl train tracks in your town without the annoying train that's always in the way haha

You should definitely put some furniture on there just to block the path.

Actually, one of my favourite things I ever did in New Leaf was that tripping glitch that could send you onto buildings and onto the train tracks. The actual train didn't even collide with you (of course I tried), so it's actually the railway crossing itself that we need to blame here

A bit more on-topic: Nice tutorial. I'd have figured it out myself no problem but it's good to see how other people do it!

 

[Prophecy82]

I always tried to out run the train like Smallville Superman