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    • I Offline
      igor
      last edited by

      no! dont stop! these are awsome. i especialy like those last ones, they remind me of glass with stripes of colored glass inlayed with it.
      and if you cant find the time to learn how to render stuff, just use podium. its as intuitive and easy to learn as SU. plus its pretty dang fast.
      i serriously need to get this pluggin.

      The genius switch has no "off" position
      Intelegence is natrual, it takes real effort to be ignorant

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        remus
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        Those last ones are very cool fred, i look forward to you learning to render, i tihnk we could have some interestign stuff being posted 😄

        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          pilou
          last edited by

          Can you use some texture like this or must it be tiling seamless?
          (here Zbrush doodling)you can find some on my "Speedy galerie" free to you to use them 😉


          text01.jpg

          Frenchy Pilou
          Is beautiful that please without concept!
          My Little site :)

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            ehaflett
            last edited by

            Great stuff Fred, your posts never disappoint and always entertain.

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              lapx
              last edited by

              Great images Fred don't stop posting please!

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                fbartels
                last edited by

                Thanks all, for the kind comments. One more experiment.

                http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/sds last one v5.jpg

                http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/sds last one v4.jpg

                http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/sds last one v3.jpg

                http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/sds last one v1.jpg

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                  solo
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                  oooh! that looks like one of the deep ocean creatures from the BBC Planet earth series.

                  http://www.solos-art.com

                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                    kwistenbiebel
                    last edited by

                    Love'em !

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                      fbartels
                      last edited by

                      Just a couple more. One, a final export from last night in which I removed the screen "shadow" shapes, and the other from a quick experiment using follow-me to create the proxy shape to feed into SdS. Quite a bit of potential there I think. (Chris.. btw, I enjoyed your original pre self-censored comment. 😉 😄 )

                      http://dws.editme.com/files/Home/sds last one v7.jpg

                      http://dws.editme.com/files/Home/sds 8 v2 sm.jpg

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                        ___olo
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                        @fbartels said:

                        Just a couple more. One, a final export from last night in which I removed the screen "shadow" shapes, and the other from a quick experiment using follow-me to create the proxy shape to feed into SdS. Quite a bit of potential there I think. (Chris.. btw, I enjoyed your original pre self-censored comment. 😉 😄 )

                        http://dws.editme.com/files/Home/sds last one v7.jpg

                        http://dws.editme.com/files/Home/sds 8 v2 sm.jpg

                        👍
                        I have a litte question, how do you paint the map on your model ???

                        Xin chào nhau giữa con đường
                        Mùa xuân phía trước, miên trường phía sau

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                          fbartels
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                          Hi _olo,

                          The steps to project a texture are...

                          1. Bring an image into your model and position it as you want relative to your geometry. Be aware that after sampling, the image in essence projects out at 90 degrees from the plane of the image surface.

                          2. Once you have the image where you want it relative to the geometry you want to paint then select the paint bucket tool while holding down the Command key (on a Mac) and click on the image. This samples the image. (If you haven't already exploded the image you will need to do this.)

                          3. Then let go of the Command key (or Windows equivalent) and click on the geometry you want to paint. If the geometry is grouped, or a component, then you want to enter the group/component and select everything you want to paint before painting with the bucket tool.

                          A trick I use is to extrude the image to make sure it completely covers the geometry I want to paint. If it doesn't, use the Scale tool to resize the entire extruded box until it encloses the geometry. The two images below should help make this clearer. The SU file used to make the images, which it too large to upload here, is available at the bottom of this page.

                          ex 1.jpg

                          projection example 2 .jpg

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                            fbartels
                            last edited by

                            This one turned out looking quite glassy. Kinda cool. Some of you in Holland may recognize the place in the image that I used for the texture.

                            sds exp 11 v3.jpgconcert hall in harbor 2.jpg

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                              twharvey
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                              @fbartels said:

                              A trick I use is to extrude the image to make sure it completely covers the geometry I want to paint. If it doesn't, use the Scale tool to resize the entire extruded box until it encloses the geometry. The two images below should help make this clearer. The SU file used to make the images, which it too large to upload here, is available at the bottom of this page.

                              [attachment=1:1qnq3rb6]<!-- ia1 -->ex 1.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:1qnq3rb6]

                              [attachment=0:1qnq3rb6]<!-- ia0 -->projection example 2 .jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1qnq3rb6]

                              Fred,
                              I downloaded your SU file and tried it. I guess I still don't understand what you did.

                              1. How do you apply the texture to the object when it inside the extruded texture image?
                              2. When I extruded the image, the sides of the box were just parallel stripes (as Normal)so that when I tried to paint them on my object (a cylindar) all I got was the same stripes.

                              Thanks in advance,
                              Tom

                              Tom

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                                fbartels
                                last edited by

                                Tom,

                                I made a quick video tutorial which should make this all crystal clear.

                                It is fairly large and will take a few moments to download.

                                It is located here.

                                Fred

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                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  Cool video ☀

                                  Are you the cousin of Niki de Saint Phalle? 😉

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                    kwistenbiebel
                                    last edited by

                                    Indeed, I always loved those statues and fountain of De Saint Phalle over at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
                                    Are those still there?

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                                      fbartels
                                      last edited by

                                      Pilou,

                                      I think Niki de Saint Phalle would have really liked SketchUp and LOVED SdS and FFD.

                                      There are some interesting videos of her garden in Tuscany here.

                                      I just read through her Wikipedia page. She was quite the character.

                                      Thanks for pointing her out!

                                      Fred

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                                        twharvey
                                        last edited by

                                        @fbartels said:

                                        Tom,

                                        I made a quick video tutorial which should make this all crystal clear.

                                        It is fairly large and will take a few moments to download.

                                        It is located here.

                                        Fred

                                        Fred,

                                        Thanks. I followed your video and got a good result! 👍

                                        Tom

                                        Tom

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                                          pilou
                                          last edited by

                                          Indeed, I always loved those statues and fountain of De Saint Phalle over at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
                                          Are those still there?
                                          I am not sure if the big piece is still there, maybe yes 😄
                                          Tinguely +Nikki = joyous mood ☀

                                          http://www.productionmyarts.com/Images/architecture-musees/paris/paris-centre-georges-pompidou-fontaine-detail.jpg

                                          at flickr 😉

                                          Frenchy Pilou
                                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                          My Little site :)

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                                            Marian
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Fred, scouring the warehouse i found this little interesting bit of information.

                                            http://img7.pictiger.com/775/15558598_th.jpg

                                            So...you were a Sketchup nut about 40 years before most of us 😄

                                            http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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