Color; Highlighted space or making light

dukejazz

Giving objects a locolize regions of box, spear, cone, dome or other primitives that has a foregound or backgound a color with noise, shine, matted line, colors with transparency gives a glow to a highlitghted objects region of space. Work best with tile or random small color textures.

This is a highlighted space for a objects.

More Examples:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=45254

dukejazz

Masking the space

back view (note the spear is solid)

side view

front view

Now it should be clear what a highlighted space is and how it can be textured

dukejazz

both sides rev and front transparency worked here

with mask

dukejazz

Highlighted space: 100% sketchup done with X ray mode in layers

highlighted space. 100 % sketchup X ray .skp

Dave R

Your posts are very confusing. I don't understand what you are doing here or why. It's like you started in the middle of a sentence. Why would you use this? There's no good explanation. Is this a setup for rendering in some rendering program?

@unknownuser said:

back view (note the spear is solid)

I don't see a spear anywhere in your images.

What does the sphere have to do with these transparent boxes? Why do you have a cube painted with transparent material? If you want to create the appearance of light through the opening, wouldn't a single face work just as well?

Please clarify and make this a useful tutorial. If you do that, I'll move it to the tutorials section.

jeff hammond

@dave r said:

:?:

Your posts are very confusing. I don't understand what you are doing here or why.

i think it's an attempt at making the spear look like it's glowing (the 2nd to last image posted prior to me posting.. the one with a sphere inside the building while looking through the window.. it looks as if this lightbulb/sphere is lit and glowing more-so than if you just put a sphere inside a building.

Dave R

@unknownuser said:

i think it's an attempt at making the spear look like it's glowing (the 2nd to last image posted prior to me posting.

I've looked again and I still don't see a spear anywhere.

TIG

Perhaps 'spear' is a typo of 'sphere' ?
There is one of those

Dave R

@tig said:

Perhaps 'spear' is a typo of 'sphere' ?

Ah, yes. I see. I was reading it too literally.