Rotan Chair

[irwanwr]

Trying to practise SketchUp with traditional chair made of rotan.

[mwm5053]

Nice model Irwan

[solo]

Sweet model, very well done.
Can I see the line version? how heavy is it?

[solo]

Nice and low poly

Too bad the attached model is not textured, I'm guessing the textures were commercial and could not be shared.

[irwanwr]

Ah yes, sorry. Forgot to include the model too.
Here it is

kursi rotan.skp

[irwanwr]

No.

The texture is self made in Kerkythea. But the textured model size is about 1.38 MB.
I thought that would be something unacceptable to post in the forum.
If not, I'll attach the textured model too if you'd like to.

[solo]

Please do, as the chair needs those textures to be awesome, I normally make a low resolution proxy texture and in my render app i exchange it for the higher resolution one.

[irwanwr]

That's interesting.
How to lower the model size with texture?
Are you saying that we should use downgraded image file to use in SketchUp? That makes sense
I'll change the resolution for use next time.

Thank you Solo

bangku rotan.skp

[irwanwr]

Thank you, Walt.

@solo said:

I normally make a low resolution proxy texture and in my render app i exchange it for the higher resolution one.

Thank you for the tips, Solo. Thank you very much

[hellnbak]

Really nice work

I have a question - why is it that you can see thru the rotan in both photos, but in the first one it casts a solid shadow, but in the second one the spaces between the rotan cast no shadow?

[Gaieus]

@hellnbak said:

I have a question - why is it that you can see thru the rotan in both photos, but in the first one it casts a solid shadow, but in the second one the spaces between the rotan cast no shadow?

I guess the first one is raw SU output and SU cannot handle image transparency but will cast a solid shadow. The second one is already a render.

[hellnbak]

Ah. Didn't realize that one was a render. Thanks.

[irwanwr]

@hellnbak said:

Really nice work

I have a question - why is it that you can see thru the rotan in both photos, but in the first one it casts a solid shadow, but in the second one the spaces between the rotan cast no shadow?

hi Steve,
the second one have a texture of a woven rotan. made into Kerkythea material with clip map.

[irwanwr]

@hellnbak said:

Ah. Didn't realize that one was a render. Thanks.

that sounds like i failed to make a difference on the look before and after the render

[hellnbak]

@irwanwr said:

@hellnbak said:

Ah. Didn't realize that one was a render. Thanks.

that sounds like i failed to make a difference on the look before and after the render

Not at all Irwin. I just don't have much of an eye when it comes to rendering (or anything else for that matter)

[hellnbak]

Nice (now, which one is the rendered one? )

One thing I noticed, there are a lot of "fighting faces" where the components overlap each other

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[irwanwr]

yes, Steve
that's how they tied those rotan bars. there is no other way around to make it smaller, either in file size or poly count. i did that on purpose, trying to mimic how people tied them up. i might try to erase one part. but that might seems to be a not well tied up rotan bar. thought that way i decrease the need to make bigger components, etc

here's one of the picture i took as an example. i know you are very good at modelling complex things like car. perhaps you can teach me how to do the chair model in a better way.

[irwanwr]

another rotan chair i made for SketchUp practise

kursi rotan 2.skp

Texture Rotan.7z

i've been thinking to upload the materials in KT forum. to ask others opinion and correction on the materials. it's still not worth to share now i'm afraid.