Creating a realistic gear in GIMP

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:53 pm **(#81)**

trandoductin wrote:

No they're not, they're gears of many people on here I just cut and pasted and combined them for fun :lol

Oh! Never mind... :hehe

trandoductin · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:16 pm **(#82)**

Wallace wrote:

trandoductin wrote:

No they're not, they're gears of many people on here I just cut and pasted and combined them for fun :lol

Oh! Never mind... :hehe

my old boss used to call me "tranny" sometimes. :oops:

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:21 pm **(#83)**

trandoductin wrote:

my old boss used to call me "tranny" sometimes. :oops:

I'm not going to touch that one. :mrgreen:

Adventure · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:29 pm **(#84)**

Thank u for the tutorial. I will try it out when I have time, maybe even come up with a gear interface.

Mikechat · **Joined:** May 23, 2012 **Posts:** 150

Rod

nice sprockets and cogs

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16175

Mikechat wrote:

Rod

nice sprockets and cogs

Thank you Mikechat

SysTemX · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 1088

Thanks for the tutorial Rod and the textures.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16175

SysTemX wrote:

Thanks for the tutorial Rod and the textures.

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

Carlos Diniz · **Joined:** Jan 20, 2013 **Posts:** 590

My outcome

LupisDominus · **Joined:** Mar 22, 2018 **Posts:** 1

Ha! I know this is almost 4 years after the last comment, but I was looking for a tutorial on making gears and came across yours. Its pretty good.
This is my attempt at a steampunk gear that is aged.

Thanks for the tutorial, it helped a lot

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Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:18 am **(#91)**

LupisDominus wrote:

Ha! I know this is almost 4 years after the last comment, but I was looking for a tutorial on making gears and came across yours. Its pretty good.
This is my attempt at a steampunk gear that is aged.

Thanks for the tutorial, it helped a lot

Attachment:

gear3.png

Nice!

Qruqs · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2014 **Posts:** 97

Haven't checked all the pages here so this might have come up already, but the first step can quite easily be made with Inkscape (there is a gear plug-in for it, I think it's installed already from the start, or I got a bunch of plug-ins after I installed Inkscape, memory gap). Its result can be used as a path in Gimp (Paths menu in the dock window, Paste Path), or pasted as a pixel layer (simple copy-paste procedure).
Then again, they look a little different.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16175

LupisDominus wrote:

Ha! I know this is almost 4 years after the last comment, but I was looking for a tutorial on making gears and came across yours. Its pretty good.
This is my attempt at a steampunk gear that is aged.

Thanks for the tutorial, it helped a lot

Attachment:

gear3.png

You are very welcome. Sorry it took so long to respond. :roll:

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16175

Qruqs wrote:

Haven't checked all the pages here so this might have come up already, but the first step can quite easily be made with Inkscape (there is a gear plug-in for it, I think it's installed already from the start, or I got a bunch of plug-ins after I installed Inkscape, memory gap). Its result can be used as a path in Gimp (Paths menu in the dock window, Paste Path), or pasted as a pixel layer (simple copy-paste procedure).
Then again, they look a little different.

It is going to depend on the size of the gear you make in Inkscape and import to GIMP. The level settings to round the gear ends will be different for each size. You would have to play with it. :bigthup