How to build this model in SketchUp?
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Dave, I'm pretty sure you are right. Just in case Pilou wasn't trolling these boards, I posted the same basic challenge at the MoI3D forum-- which he was one of the first to answer there too!
Frenchy, Thanks much for taking the time to show me so many examples! Much appreciated
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Dave,
Playing with Greeble. How did you get the originating grid in order to use Greeble? Having a tough time getting there...
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@chippwalters said:
Dave,
Playing with Greeble. How did you get the originating grid in order to use Greeble? Having a tough time getting there...
One example with ThrowTo plugin...
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Chip, I just made a flat grid and deleted the edges to get the D shape. I like Cotty's idea for creating the shape of the letters as well as the background blocks. I didn't have Throw To installed so I didn't think of it for this.
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Else for Cubify the D
Voxelize by TheDroDraw a "D" in any font : Make a Group
Voxelize by theDro
Take the Top Line of cubes: Move it
Explode
Select Only Top Faces (not perimeters) (Selection Toy) by Thomthom
Joint Push Pull "N" (random as you want) by Fredo
et voilà
PS Ground will be of course trivial!
The 3 letters D N S can be voxelizing in the same time but careful heavy calculation!
Depending of the scale of voxelisation!
Edit : in fact no: it's Speedy Light : see following posts!
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If you take the 1/4 height with Voxelise
that is speedy light for all letters in the same time!
Take the Top cubes, Select the faces Joint Push Pull "N" (random) etc...as you want!
(for your exact result asked at the first post)
After moving the original group
Color by Sdmitch Plugin
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Thanks everyone who contributed. Much appreciated.
Frenchy, thanks for the Voxelize mention. I started using it, but then just couldn't figure out how to easily match the logo with the underlying grid while easily keeping things separate.
Instead I used Cotty's advice and quickly created a grid comprised of single GROUPED sqares, then placed the logo beneath it and another plane beneath it as Cotty did and projected to Infinity using the Throw It plugin. Needed to keep the squares GROUPED or else they wouldn't 'throw' correctly.
Once I had individual square poly groups in place, I then EXPLODED them and then creatde a single mesh Group-- one for the base and one for the logo.
From there it was simple to apply Greeble to the group to get the effect I wanted. On the logo, I used the 'keep top faces grouped' Greeble option so that I could then AGAIN Greeble to get a slight bevel. I would've done the same for the base, but Greeble took so long to work through it, I decided to leave as is. (I don't even know how long as finally I just went to bed).
Here's the final. Now off to create a KeyShot rendering of it.
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@Chipp
Why Not!
Just make 2 goups!
Letters and a flat ground
And play with the "N" random range of this flat one with the Joint Push Pull "N"!Of course fonts must have inbetween letter multiple of cube unity!
As it's groups you can move them as you want for any positions x,y,z if adjusments are necessary!Here my plane is 1 m under the letters - so my range can be for example 0.8 m ---> 1 m
Thanks to Fredo for this marvelous tools!
Notice the range random!
(in this video my cubes'ground are rectangles! It was just for the concept!
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And the render...
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Space Odyssey!
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That's a great little plugin. You should stick it up on the PluginStore.
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@rich o brien said:
That's a great little plugin. You should stick it up on the PluginStore.
Before I do that, what does it need to be more user friendly?
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Simple is beautiful!
5 minutes (but many letters!
In Fact a cool plugin will be also this who draw only the cubics letters!
(without random : only the flat crossing plane with the grid )
Your parameters don't permit that for the moment!
Like this we can adapt by example some other plugins! JPP "N" by Fredo by example!
Or some deformations like TGI3D etc...
Here from the Voxelize by TheDro of the beginning posts!
(but some killing erase are necessary and size of cube don't adapt to the model - here i was lucky! )
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@chippwalters said:
Does anyone have an idea on how to automatically/algorithmically build this in SketchUp using a bitmap (or other way) to drive the distribution of randomimzed height boxes (or other shapes)?
Perhaps some sort of combination of Scatter and other plugins? Thanks for any cycles spent cogitating...
Just the type of mindless exercises I live for. Over the weekend, I tried various scenarios and this was the best of them. Created in less than a minute under SU2016 64bit.
Usage:Extensions>SDM Tools>Misc Tool>Random Cubes
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@sdmitch said:
Just the type of mindless exercises I live for. Over the weekend, I tried various scenarios and this was the best of them. Created in less than a minute under SU2016 64bit.
Usage:Extensions>SDM Tools>Misc Tool>Random Cubes
[attachment=1:1at0ardt]<!-- ia1 -->Random Cubes.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:1at0ardt]
Wow! Amazing. Thanks so much for sharing!
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