Render this: banner

jeff hammond

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here's a skp that might make for a more interesting render:
ss_jh.skp

a quick test render showing what the model looks like.. (3D cubes keep the grid for the signage and thicker/outlined letters)
click pic for larger

guzman tierno

@solo said:

Refering to the banner used on this rubrics cube solving website: http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/forum.php
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best render I'm assuming will be used for that site?
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Have fun, get creative, use lights...do your thing.

As Marcus (d12dozer) explained, I made this model as a candidate banner for the SpeedSolving.com Forum. They actually chose this banner.

I was now trying to give the banner some cool effects (some materials, some lights, some shininess) but I am completely new to renders so I really don't know how to do it.

I think that the SpeedSolving Forum will be happy to accept improvements of the banner.
I can show this thread to the mods fo SpeedSolving so that they can see what's going on and have some interaction.

I'm not interested in being the only author of the banner, so if someone comes up with a nice rendering we can share the authoring of the product.
Let me add this is a "for fun" project: no money for me or anybody.

A technical aspect: I think it would be nice if the grid in the banner also shows in the final result 'cause it recalls the squares of the Rubik's Cube, but Marcus explained me that the solution is to add the grid again after rendering.

d12dozr

@guzman tierno said:

...Marcus explained me that the solution is to add the grid again after rendering.

That's just one way to do it...Jeff's is even better

One other thing to note, when you are modeling to render, make sure your front faces in Sketchup are oriented facing 'out'...check this by setting your view to monochrome. If not oriented correctly, the model may not render correctly.

guzman tierno

@unknownuser said:

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here's a skp that might make for a more interesting render ...

a quick test render showing what the model looks like.. (3D cubes keep the grid for the signage and thicker/outlined letters)

That's way better than the original, the solution is simple and effective.

Rich O Brien

We can modify the model?

guzman tierno

@d12dozr said:

... Jeff's is even better

Yes, Jeff's idea it's a very nice improvement to the model and solves the problem of rendering the grid.

@unknownuser said:

We can modify the model?

Yes.

I know this isn't in the rules of a "Render This" challenge,
but in this case improvements and even bigger modifications of the model are allowed.

I uploaded Jeff's improvement here (with his name)
I've set the background color to the one it should have in the forum.
I've also set the point of view it should more or less have (but of course you can modify it).

Edit: I've told the mods in SpeedSolving.com to come check this thread.

Lobster

About as much 'pop' as i can muster on a sunday afternoon.

The more render freindly model in Thea for about 15mins TR2 speed solving.png

Should have made the whites whiter: never mind.

Regards

Sam

guzman tierno

@Lobster:

That's interesting,
thank you.
I hope I'll be able to do something like that,
I still have to understand all the options of Twillight.

By carefully choosing the colors
I think that something like that would fit nicely as a forum banner.

Lobster

Hi Guzman,

I'm sure someone else here more competant than me will give you a better shot at it.

I thought that the lettering suited using a coloured emmiting mesh and some oblique spotlights to light up the underside edge of the blocks and one to give some sort of gradient colour, i tried unsuccesfully to focus the eye more on the cube. Yes my colour palette was pretty unsubtle but it amused me. I got the blocks whiter but ran out of time.........

Hope it goes well.

Regards

Sam

solo

Threw some glass in and greebled some faces