Podium rendering "image over material" problem
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Hi there, I've made a spinning cycle with a red cross in the wheel. This wheel has a chome color, and I added a transparant Photoshop document with only the red cross visible over it. In Sketchup you can see this red cross over the crome wheel, but when I render it in Podium the wheel turned into black, with no chrome color or red cross.
How can I make a crome wheel with a opaque red cross on it??
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Is the face onto which you applied the image reversed? Check by changing the face style to Monochrome. If it is, correct it and reapply the material.
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Hi Dave,
I dont see any difference, but I think I see the problem. The crome fill is vanished when I import a texture over it. Logical I guess.
What I want is a wheel with a crome color and above that a extra texture with a red cross. How can I fill a texture above a other colored face?
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It would be a whole lot easier to understand what you're after if you could show the image without the render or something of that nature. SketchUp isn't really set up to handle multiple layers of materials on a face. I would most likely divide the surface into sectors and paint the sectors with the materials. It would be similar to what I did on this drawer pull to simulate a reflection.
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Thanks, Peter You're still up? Or an early riser?
In the case of that pull I had no intention of rendering it. I just used it to show a method of insinuating a highlight directly in SketchUp. And drawing the cross on the wheel is what I was trying to say but my coffee hadn't kicked in yet.
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That looks nice Dave. I guess rather than tweak a render until it does it, just draw it in!
Is there a reason the cross texture is "above"the chrome? Why not draw the cross in and give it its own texture?
Something like this?
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Can't sleep so I am sketchuping.
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I know that well.
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Matheos,
Just as should have done in my example, you will probably want to increase the segments on your wheel considerably for that close-up, and add rounded edges to the wheel and frame. You'll like it more.
Peter
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