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    • pilouP Offline
      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
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        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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            • soloS Offline
              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
                    last edited by

                    @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
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                            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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                                          kwistenbiebel
                                          last edited by

                                          🤣
                                          That's funny.
                                          It must have been the age Sketchup was still in black & white. 😄

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                                            igor
                                            last edited by

                                            its from when dinosaurs romed the earth! (sorry to all the 38 year olds for making you feel old.)
                                            that must've been an error, google has probably fixed it by now. or was that really posted in 1970?

                                            suddenly, it's 1970. (car nuts will understand)
                                            oh, and LOL.

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

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