I hope it works alright for you that way. I think it would save you a lot of time and it will certainly help you keep the file size down.

I don't know enough about ACAD but is there a way to automatically apply hatchings based on some parameters?

That is one great resource David. Much appreciated... 😄

And then we have this from TIG:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=33305&p=293710#p293710

No. essentially if you only have one instance of a component in your file, it's doing nothing for you in terms of file size. I'll sometimes do that, just to group my objects together but that's about it, just convenience.

As for rendering (assuming you're just talking about orbiting around in SU), components do nothing for you there regardless. Your cpu/graphics card still has to look at all the objects on your screen whether they're components or not. The only thing components do for you is help with file size (other than workflow improvements like editing one object rather than 20). Now if you get into actually sending your SU file to an external renderer then it changes things slightly, but that's a different issue.

-brodie

hey, thanks i already checked the warehouse and im a member of cadyou but the last link has some useful pieces thanx a bunch 😮

Thank you. They are great.

WOW thanks guys

Sorry I didnt reply earlier been very busy.

There are some gold textures here.

Your all STARS ☀

@bigtom said:

Thanks TIG
What is a colorized texture?

When you have a 'textured' material [e.g 'brickwork'] in the model materials collection you can edit it. One of the edit options is 'colorize' - this adds a colored 'film' over the texture [you edit the RGB - reset uses the 'average-color' of the texture] so you can tweak your bricks to be 'pinker' or whatever you want... 🤓

Thanks Daniel,

Great looking models!

Robert

dosch design have a large collection of high res hdri forest and undergrowth images. very good quality.
there is a nature package somewhere...dense undergrowth, grass, mud, water etc.

http://www.doschdesign.com/products/hdri

Thank you Elisei, that will work perfectly!

Getting the hang of materials.

Getting the hang of materials

thanks for the link

Thank you very much, I appreciate it

Thank you, gentlemen.

Just for fun, I made another couple of images using this style. I'm considering some variations on it which I might post. Is it too dark as it is?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5203596991_5d7a8dd49a.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5204196276_f78c61f77b.jpg

👍 Great. Open spaces All in One. Thank you.

@unknownuser said:

So, you mean to start from a horizontal base and go up?

Yup,Just trace over a hanging cloth picture and pull the geometry up,then divide a bit the surface and play with the lines a bit,can t be that hard.

@unknownuser said:

Sorry, I don't have much experience (and intuition - which is developed by experience, after all 😄 ) in modelling organic stuff.

It's my first cloth modeling too,although is not actually a cloth is more like a messy mesh and a texture applied to it,but is good for visualization because is so poly less and looks pretty real(it s not good enough for the main object in a render though).

Thanks you guys! The info is most appreciated.

Joe

Thanks Boofredlay! You really helped me to help someone else with the model you made. I took your shape and traced the bottom form with some follow me bristles. It's not truly optimized, I should have only made one bristol and deformed all the other copies to keep file size down. But it did not dawn on me to do so until I was almost done. Oh well another drawing for another day! Anyway Thanks again! Matte (Present Progress Attached)

Broom

Thank you for those log textures Urgen 👍