Desk lamp

watkins

Thanks Urgen!

Thanks James!

Praise from the both of you is praise indeed.

Dear David,

Yes, I did think about reducing the polycount, but my original intention was to while away a few hours modelling something close to hand (using a plastic ruler I eyeballed dimensions to get the proportions right). In that respect, low poly modelling was not my aim. I was also curious to see how well I could model the plastic components, which were far from simple shapes. The intersections went well and I was able to cleanup all redundant geometry, so I was pleased enough with the result to post here even though lamps are two a penny (or should that be two a dime). I thought about redrawing the spring component, but I had already spent too much time modelling so....

When modelling something (like a household object), does the question, "Why!", ever enter your head, and do you just ignore it and carry on? Should I seek help?

Kind regards,
Bob

Ross Macintosh

Thanks Bob! I saved the one w/o springs and know it will come in very handy.

Regards, Ross

Dave R

"When modelling something (like a household object), does the question, "Why!", ever enter your head, and do you just ignore it and carry on? Should I seek help?"

Yes, it does and yes, I do. I doubt there's much help that anyone could give.

Keep doing it, Bob.

Best,

Dave

dylan

Thanks Bob for this great looking lamp.

Gaieus

Hi All,

If you don't need a very realistically looking spring for your lamp (i.e. to save geometry and for farther shots), you can use a semi transparent png texture positioned slightly rotated on the surface.
Note that it runs around more than once so it is really not accurate for a spring but who cares from a distance? (I made it 1 cm wide and 10 cms long but you can adjust it to your needs).

And the skippy:

Spiral.skp

watkins

Dear Dylan,

Thank you for your kind comments. The lamp was really my way of improving my modelling skills. I am slowly working out how best to align parts, but I still found the springs tricky to position.

Dear Gaieus,

Many thanks for the semi-transparent texture. Would this be an application for the UV tool, say mapping concentric rings onto the walls of a cylinder? If so, then we might also have a new way of representing threaded parts.

Regards,
Bob

Dave R

Gai,

That works very nicely for for a spring. Thanks for posting it.

Bob, I've used the Sketchy_Lines_Wavy materials to represent threads and it seems to be at least understandable. No UV mapping required for that. You just have to scale the texture down.

Gaieus

@watkins said:

...Would this be an application for the UV tool, say mapping concentric rings onto the walls of a cylinder? If so, then we might also have a new way of representing threaded parts.

Regards,
Bob

I did not use the UV tools in this case (although it could be involved) because when I tried, it set it back to horizontal (maybe it could be used however but I just wanted to present a quick idea) if you mean that (if not, I1m not sure what you ment above - please, remember that English is not my mother tongue )