Thanks Boo
That would have taken me forever to find

Finally had some time to get into this and here is what I have come up with.
The tire is too small in width but I can change that.
Any comments and tips would be welcome.

Larry

NewWheelPant.zip

@unknownuser said:

Thanks David...i think
Of course! Hey . ..your voice is a lot better than my mountain west nasal twang.

In all sincerity. . .Good job!

@unknownuser said:

I would just like to see some of your finished SU models. I'd bet they're pretty good.

Ran out of time. Not as good as I expected, but my boss likes it. This is for your curiosity:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63525071@N04/5985614702/in/photostream

I just gotta 🤣

@jet said:

Thanks a lot Jim!

You're welcome. I was reminded of another way that might work to create the relief - if you can create a greyscale image of the relief then you might be able to use ThomThom's Bitmap 2 Mesh plugin. Click on the link to view the example.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=31339&start=15#p276160

Thanks for the compliment and practical advice.

I'll definitely correct the shell material in future renders. To be honest I didn't pay attention to the actual chair and selected a glossy finish to help the shell stand out against the background.

Modelling the accompanying ottoman is on my to-do list 😉

Wow! Thank you all for your replies and comments!

@Pilou, oganocali, Rich O'Brien: Thank you very much, these resources are spot on. The only thing is I need to take some quality time to read AND understand them...
@solo: Well I have tried this and it looks good but I can't seem to import my textured rock back in Sketchup using Whaat UV Tools...
Edit: I can't even paint in Sculptris today... 😞

If I understand this, I have 2 options to texture this rock: paint it myself or apply a ready-made texture. In that other case, I'll have to map it and stretched areas in my geometry will be... stretched 😕

You can obtain the details by some bump or displacement as you have
the new calculated texture ! 😉
Here I have decreased twice from the maximum
photosculpt.jpg

Thank you very much for the helpful videos about your workflow!
Cotty

Better than my first try 💚

snoopy 2.jpg

thank you gaieus I'll look into it

Yes, this is pretty much what i need Thanks a lot 😉

@deanlegg said:

Marian
can you show me how you keep your inlet ducts square as mine always go rounded
So I put them on after sds
Cheers Dean

I'm planning on addressing that exact thing my tutorial thread.

Even extrude Edges by rail by TIG 😉

eebr.jpg

Dupplication with Grow by TIG

os.jpg

With Random Painter By Chris Fullmer 😉
os2.jpg

Ah ha
That makes a lot of sense
Thanks for the quick reply Pete

Hi Aaron,

Is it Artisan?
http://artisan4sketchup.com/

Thanks. And please post your progress as we would love to see it as well.

Ok this is about my 50th attempt... not quite up to solo's
A few questions
When you are doing the model and then sds to check I press return to get back to the model
but when its been sds and the then painted I don't know how to return to the model
This was only with 2 iterations
Cheers

dog.jpg

Thanks. We are all fine. I am however sore as hell from doing volunteer work. Just bought a chainsaw too so I plan on getting a great workout the next few months.

As far as my avatar goes I did not do that one with SDS. It was done with spheres, shapes, intersecting and the Round Corner plugin. I did have to do some manual stitching of the mesh after using Round Corner as some of the intersections were not "happy".

Here is the original thread I started with the smiley before I made it my Avatar.

Hope this helps. If I get some time I might try to recreate it in a tut.