Freemason's Hall

jasonh1234

Just a pic of a model I made as practice. It was just an interesting looking building that was down the street from me.
Started with Photomatch but ended up abandoning the textures. It's not quite done yet but it's close enough to post.

freemasons hall-small.jpg

jasonh1234

@unknownuser said:

Why did you abandon the textures?...they are the best part of a good model.
Your model job is great though! I would just like to see the textures on it.

I was working from a single photo. When that model is rotated, or zoomed in on, believe me, the textures looked fugly.

Daniel

Nice model. You might want to take a look at ACME Brick's masonry designer (freeware); you'll probably find a brick texture that closely resembles that on the building.

FIRE1BULL

Looking good, shame about the textures... i know sometimes they look a bit (read: alot) crap. I got about +6000 textures, so you're welcome if you need textures

jasonh1234

Since no-one believes me...

freemasons hall_side1-small.jpg
freemasons hall_side_2-small.jpg

jasonh1234

@unknownuser said:

Send me the biggest picture you have. I will correct them for you and send them back with comments on how it was done.

To big for attaching to a PM. Want to PM me your e-mail address?

jasonh1234

@unknownuser said:

Here is a start for you ....the large side window.
Let me know if I should continue

Looks good but the real question is... what can be done with the side wall? (The actual wall.)

jasonh1234

@unknownuser said:

The side wall;
The wall material itself as sampled from the picture you sent.

That was the thing that kind of made me want to abandon the textures. I figured "well if I'm making a new texture I'm sure that I can find something within SU that's close enough and tiles."
But then all the SU textures look so clean that it makes the photo textured areas look out of place so I decided to go with all SU textures/colors.

jasonh1234

@unknownuser said:

Hey Jason....don't you disappear...you got work to do!!

Heh. I know but my Mini is sooo slow with 3D. Bought a BTO MacBook Pro today. Should have it within 2 weeks.

jasonh1234

Well I got my new Built to Order MacBook yesterday.
(17" LED Backlit, Core 2 Duo 2.6Ghz w 2GB RAM, 7200RPM drive, & a GeForce 8600M GT w 512MB)
Loving it so far although I JUST installed SketchUp and loaded up one of my models and was actually a little disappointed with the performance. Especially with Shadows on.

Out of curiosity I also installed SketchUp on a Virtual machine running on VMWare Fusion (XP Pro SP2)
Surprisingly it seemed to run a lot better in XP.

Going to try it in Bootcamp next and see what happens.

edit Ok tried it under bootcamp.

End results (My opinion.)
WinXP Boot - Looks fantastic with hardware support) Runs so-so. (Borderline sub-par)
WinXP Virtual - Looks so-so, (No Hardware support) Runs really fast.
OS X - Looks so-so, (Exactly like XP with no hardware support) Runs fantastic.

I would say XP virtual and OS X native are about the same as far as speed and visual quality are concerned.

So in summary...
WinXP = Great visual quality, & reduced performance.
Mac OS X = Great speed, & reduced visual quality.

I can't even find drivers for my video card on Nvidia's site oddly enough.
XP is using Windows drivers from the MacBook's OS X disks. OS X is using... I have no idea.
but one thing is clear... This Nvidia card running in OS X, looks like crap compared to within XP (Booted with full hardware support)

ups

jasonh1234,

You may like to use another columns at the front entrance (see the attachement).

Regards,
Andrey.

Column_Doric.skp

jasonh1234

@unknownuser said:

Can't tell whether you are happy or sad about the mac book.

Very happy with the Macbook. Little disappointed witch SketchUp's performance on it though.
I've run Cinebench on the laptop to benchmark it and it performed great. SketchUp sadly seems kinda lacking in performance and visual quality. (I was expecting better)

I used to run SketchUp on my PC with 2 Nvidia 7900's in SLI with Hardware acceleration and anti-aliasing. It behaved, performed and looked great. Sadly I think my Single core XP PC ran SketchUp better than my new dual core laptop with a better video card.

C'est La Vie.

Currently on a quest for the perfect laptop bag.

@ups said:

You may like to use another columns at the front entrance (see the attachement).

Very nice. Thanks!

chezet

I really like that architecture jason.