Column capital
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I think the best would be to download some vegetation (like ivy) images with transparent background and place them onto a billboard face in front of the capital. This would also make sure that it looks realistic (the leaves are a bit farther from the capital instead of being "painted" on it)
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Great now I am done with that thx!!... but for the same project I would like to make some drawings on a sphere. I downloaded the Surface Tool but when I start up SU this comes up
no such file to load -- /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/BZ_Dir_12/bezierspline_main.rbError Loading File bezierspline.rb no such file to load -- /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/BZ_Dir_12/bezierspline_main.rbI downloaded the plugin into /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins; and I didn't change the name of the folder, but it is named: ToolsOnSurface_131-1
what should I do??
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Obviously something is missing from Fredo's plugins (or someother plugin that would be needed). You'd better post this in the Ruby forum because the folks there may know what to do.
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Hm. The image doesn't want to load - I can't really compare. Why don't you attach it to the post instead?
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OK... I didn't get it working... so I decided to go another way... Here You see a picture that I have made (the finished project must be clean). But when I compare my birds to the 1 on the picture bellow they are pretty different. How can I make them more alike? The main problem are the visible edges.
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i did that... hope that it is fixed
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Now this is definitely a question of the segmentation of curves. With more segments, your design would be much more "smooth" and similar to that of the image.
I saw you post your question in the ruby forum (hope someone will answer - I don't have that plugin currently installed). What exactly did you try to achieve with it?
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well I wanted to make a school-boy smilie, that would fit in to the context that I need to fill... well I went with the school logo but I don't know how to make it smoother... I heard of CAD importing, but I don't know how...
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i guess that I need to import a dwg image... but how to I make a jpg file a dwg one??
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You can either use software that "converts" raster images to vector images (Google some and find out which suites you) or use curves (arcs, beziers etc.) with higher line segments than what you are currently using when tracing around your image.
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@kus said:
i guess that I need to import a dwg image... but how to I make a jpg file a dwg one??
wintopo free did this quickly - you'll see it's all 'steppy' because of the raster pixels becoming lines... You could quickly redraw over it to improve it before importing to SUp...
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great... it looks great from far... but up close you can see the "steppyness"... I am on a mac... can't find a program that can open dwg files... can some1 tell me if there is a free 1??
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@kus said:
great... it looks great from far... but up close you can see the "steppyness"... I am on a mac... can't find a program that can open dwg files... can some1 tell me if there is a free 1??
A Mac limits you a bit, but try this site http://www.lemkesoft.com/lemkesoft.html
If you are on a budget this site has 'free' shareware ($30/35 each) (I think with unlimited use - it's up to you to be honest) for 2d-CAD and Image manipulation - including GraphicConverter which can change virtually any raster-image into many other raster-formats and also vectorize them too... I think that CADintosh only exports as DXF [that can be used in SUp], but it can import other file formats that you can first vectorize from raster-images with GraphicConverter [like HPGL and PICT]... If you have a DWG you can always import a DWG into SUp, and if the 2d drawing is too intense with that then export it as JPG or DXF into GCon' or CADin' etc... -
well I have downloaded the GraphicConverter but don't know how to change it to be able to change in SU...
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No problem... I have corrected it in SU... it turned out great!!!
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well here is the picture I have made:
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@kus said:
well I have downloaded the GraphicConverter but don't know how to change it to be able to change in SU...
Open the PNG file in GraphicConverter.
Make/convert it into a vector format - like HPGL ?
Import that format file into CADintosh and edit it as desired.
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one more thing... I am using podium and I set the reflection to 10 but I did not like it... now I cant set it to 0... why???
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make sure youve only got faces selected when your setting reflection (or light). Podium doesnt like it if you try and give reflection to groups.
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