Rotan Chair

irwanwr

Thank you, Walt.

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

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.jpg

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.