A Little Stool in Red Oak
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Thanks Oli. I didn't round over the corners on the bottom of the feet. I only rounded the edges up the outside and in the recess underneath.
I didn't really want that texture on the skirting board to be high res. I didn't really expect it to be the focus of attention. I added a little bump to it, too, to keep it from being so shiny.
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I understand, it's just when there are so few objects in the scene everything stands out. It's easier to notice these things that's all. I was just being a picky bugger.
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That's alright. Maybe I should reduce the DOF a bit.
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@dave r said:
thanks for the suggestion. I'll see if I can sort that out. I used KT for these.
There is no proper AO in KT, so float or modify mesh to get some recess around the feet. If you used KT biased engine, missing contact shadows is just a feature... for example Thea has different approach in it's biased engine (Field Mapping instead of Photon Mapping) and it can produce good contact shadows ( +there is AO feature if needed). With KT, unbiased engines should produce better contact shadows, but still... floating models a bit will help.
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I think the floating effect is because the carpet is a flat surface with false 3d relief, your brain wants to tell you it isn't flat but the feet are siting on a flat surface
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Yeah, I can see that. I guess the trick is to change what the brain thinks it sees. I could take the easy way out and change the flooring to something hard like tile of wood.
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It is that damn carpet, I tried everything, bumps, lighting, holding my mouth right, a rabbit, nothing I could do made the carpet work. It's always the way, nobody sees the good stuff just the problems.
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A whole rabbit? That's really trying!
Hmmm.... I guess I'll tear out the carpet and put down something else.
Nice stool, though.
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Yes and the original wood textures are great. How do you go about getting even lighting when you take the photos?
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Nick, I think it's pure luck. It doesn't always work out that way.
Actually it probably isn't very even end to end. It matters most that it's even across the width of the board. My texture images cover 6 to 14 feet of a board so I don't need the material to repeat along the length like the typical square texture images must. Because of the size of the texture and because it is supposed to represent real wood, I have no use for seamless textures. Usually I'll have two or more boards from the same tree and I try to make them as similar in exposure as I can get.
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Four legs are not hyper stability for this sort of thing?
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@unknownuser said:
Four legs are not hyper stability for this sort of thing?
What difference does that make? It would be stable enough. If I'd made it with 3 legs it wouldn't have been true to the original design.
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Is there a stool plugin? Hmm the idea of pluging a stool in makes my eyes water.
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No fair! I had a mouthful of coffee.
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@unknownuser said:
@unknownuser said:
What difference does that make?
Less wood!
More difficult to make.
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Economy / Rentability / Difficulty
a difficult choice! -
Easy, sit on floor.
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@box said:
Is there a stool plugin? Hmm the idea of pluging a stool in makes my eyes water.
There is:
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@unknownuser said:
Economy / Rentability / Difficulty
a difficult choice!The cost difference to make two of these stools with four legs or three isn't much. I'm not planning to rent them to anyone and we have flat floors in our house. Nearly every other seat in the house has four legs, too, and no one ever has any difficulty sitting on them. The simplicity of building them with four legs outweighs any benefits gained by making them with three legs.
Gilles, that one would be hard on our maple floor.
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