Just playing

TIG

thanke you all mates, for kind words. in fact it is the quality and realism of TWI and KT , but aout the book

@dermotcoll said:

Not where Majid is from - they read from right to left me thinks

yes that is right, I missed it , btw you may imagine that it is backface cover of the book ?!

Nice try a getting out of the self made hole, Majid... but unfortunately in the West most hard-back books have a plain back without any printing on them - unlike most paper-back books - BUT don't despair, it's a great render anyway !

EscapeArtist

Majid you are an expert at getting the best renders out of KT. Very nice materials. Good job!

solo

I'm looking forward to the renders he will achieve with Thea.

2kemon

top notch as always, majid!

@unknownuser said:

combination of sketchup+wings3d is excellent

Interesting you're integrating wings3D in your workflow.
Would you care to drop a few lines about how you do that?

majid

@2kemon said:

Would you care to drop a few lines about how you do that?

here is a raw sketch of what I did.first I made this model using SU (it could be purely modeled using wings too)
then it needs some cleaning and adding more vertix, etc...

cutting, (via right click) connecting (c key), move nodes (v to see nodes) selecting and moving node to have better model...

after 2 times smoothing

and finally the seam

2kemon

very clear explanation, majid - thanks!

So from the sketchuppers viewpoint it's a free subdivide & smooth on steroids with a free 3D app on top. Interesting!
How many smoothing iterations did you do on the glass from your renders? I wonder what would create the smallest file size - the wings#3 process you described or the subdivide & smooth plugin?

EscapeArtist

Might be better off with the Wings smoothing, SD&S causes the object to shrink a little (if that's not a problem, then no worries), and the extra faces cause SU to get a little sluggish. If it's just a coffee mug, not a big deal, but it may be problematic if it's a complex object or multiple objects.

majid

wings3d is a free sds app, but not for sure with sds ruby plugin options.I did 3 times of sds and so obviously it added the mesh too much ,no worry for a mug and simple scene that it's main object is that mug.

Fletch

Great Tut Majid! Thanks for sharing/taking time!
I like the 'bridge'.

majid

@solo said:

I'm looking forward to the renders he will achieve with Thea.

thanx mate I started Thea, verry late,...in fact today I finally started it, it is wonderful , and hope to be more friendly with it in few next days. I've spent about 4 hours on it overall, and my first success was a car-paint material,..very conviencing result