After design Crit

Richard

Have you thought about loading the model into Sketchfab and embedding it here to let us wander around it a bit? I'd like to get an idea of whats going on inside and out before jumping in...

You forget that I'm bloody lazy! No more than needed!

Rich O Brien

Some baked textures would make it sing in Sketchfab

Richard

I'm not sure there is a proper renderer that bakes textures yet is there?

Here is a quick mock up Post Pro!

Rich O Brien

Blender will bake textures, ao, normals, full render. Basically anything.

Richard

@rich o brien said:

Blender will bake textures, ao, normals, full render. Basically anything.

Yeah but no one want to learn blender just to do that!!

Rich O Brien

[mod=:103sfoc2]Removed SketchFab embed as it caused load time to increase for page[/mod:103sfoc2]

But when the end result i this then the time spent is worth it

massimo

I have to admit that I never really understood the utility of those baked textures. In that sketchfab model the shadows seem all wrong and way too soft. I mean it's like the light is coming from any point and the result is fake and cartoon-like at best.
A raw Sketchup model with shadows is 100% better than that IMO.

Very nice work Richard btw.

Rich O Brien

[mod=:2c4n0eqd]removed SketchFab embed[/mod:2c4n0eqd]

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massimo

Really nice.

Richard

Yeah I'm never sold much on walkable or navigable models mate. Buyers aren't impressed by them, they just click in to watch it move get lost and give up.

Not if you consider the other option is to spend some money on good images. There is a saying they use in advertising, if you haven't got good images - don't use images. Same I think with these!

Rich O Brien

Ignore me as I'm testing the affect of page load times with these 3D viewers

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pbacot

Great B&W image Richard. I like the plants too.

pilou

Why the Warehouse viewer has not "vertical" rotation ?

Box

Probably because you are using Google Stone not chrome or Prefire fox as your browser.

mitcorb

@Rich:
I was wondering why this page was dragging ass.
I also get slow loading whenever there are dropbox attachments.

Rich O Brien

@Tim

My bad.

@King Dick

Sorry for derailing the thread.

It's a wonderful image

Krisidious

Revizto bakes textures too... Although I'm no good at it.

Box

I must admit while you had the 2 sketchfab links on the page I was trying to reply with a comment about how they slow the page down. I gave up because even typing was taking 10 seconds between letters.

I think 3D viewers are great things but perhaps if they can be set so the user needs to click them if they want them to load. Otherwise they are thread killers.

Sorry Richard, I've been meaning to comment on your images. Love them but I've been waiting for the solution to your imbalance to drop into my head, sadly I don't think I'm up to it.

Krisidious

Yeah Box, me too... Page was really doing weird things.

Krisidious

actually, it still is...