A different use for SketchUp...
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Okay, we usually have architectural stuff here and the odd car or other item rendered for display. I use SU for something a little different: stained glass windows. Here's the latest one I've made, and the SU images. Panel is 26 3/4" sq.
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Hey, those are different colours!
Anyway, cool. You could easily make renders for "more real" pre-viz. of these stained glass panels. Even installed in the (models of the) rooms they are designed for.
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Yes Gaieus is right, stained glass renders pretty well. Here is one I did fooling around in on of the forum glass challenges a while back. Modeled in SketchUp rendered in Kerkythea
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That looks cool.
Hmmm...gives me an idea for the next challenge, how about a stained window challenge where not only the texture of the glass needs to be present but also the filtered light and even colored light/refracted, and even diverted spectrum effects?
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It's a great idea. There are so many environments that stained glass can be placed in, ( back lit from the light inside a building, in a stained glass lamp, backlit from sunlight outside of a building). Plus the textures would be a challenge.
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@solo said:
That looks cool.
Hmmm...gives me an idea for the next challenge, how about a stained window challenge where not only the texture of the glass needs to be present but also the filtered light and even colored light/refracted, and even diverted spectrum effects?
The intersection of two hobbies, I'd definitely enter that one.
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That's a very good idea. And if needed, you can print out full size paterns to work from.
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I'll dig around and see if I can find the pattern I made for the Welsh flag stained glass panel I did (well, did 1/2 of
). I made the pattern in SU, but never rendered it. (I never actually finished the project because I burned out the motor in my glass grinder and never got around to fixing it....been 3 years now!)Chris
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Burned it out? You know you're supposed to cut little pieces to size, not grind the sheet to size right?
Lol, a new grinder isn't that much - heck, check Craigslist. Usually once a month someone is selling all their stuff.
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