Modelhead, I use Envisioneer for modeling, working drawings, and take-off estimates. It uses RS Means data, have a look, http://www.rsmeans.com. However as Kris said, nothing beats human experience and input, it took me a long time to tweak by adjusting labor costs that were acceptable for my area, also inputting material costs for the actual materials that I would be using, and these both need adjusting constantly.
Mike
alpro
Just curious if anyone has bought any software from E-bay. In particular, I'm looking at Photoshop CS3 Extended which can be bought on E-bay anywhere from $479 to $625. I just want to make sure that it's authenic authorized Adobe software and not just some copy or hacked cd. If anyone has had any experience with this sort of thing I would appreciate any advice or suggestions.
Mike
alpro
I too, think this place rocks. Being a newbie I haven't been able to contribute but have learnt plenty, so thanks to everyone that makes SCF what it is.
Mike
alpro
Don't know how to make a animated gif, but just had to comment. Solo, that dancing Edson has me laughing all morning, I'm sure Edson has better dance moves than that.
Mike
Edson, sepo posted a perforated steel texture on the Podium forum that might be helpful. http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/supodiumforum/vpost?id=2093378
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Mike
Here are two ways for manually making seamless textures with PS, http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=18 http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/160/en/ Both are rather time consuming especially with more detailed textures, this I know from experience as I'm currently in the process of starting to make myself a texture library that I hope will become quite large with high quality seamless textures including bump maps. modelhead also created a great tut for making seamless textures, http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=3947&st=0&sk=t&sd=a There are also some plugins for PS, though I haven't tried any and some stand alone programs such as posted here, http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=4212
Mike
Alot of the local bars and taverns around are closing or selling out, more hip, trend setting night club type places,the kind younger crowds seem to like are replacing them. But I'm lucky enough to live very close to a great place for a good dinner and a good beer. I'm sure almost anyone would find a good beer here as their selection is the biggest that I've ever seen. Just check out this selection, all prices are USD. http://www.sharpedgebeer.com/html/full.htm
Mike
I have family that lives in the Czech Republic, the last time I was there was over fifteen years ago so I don't know if it's still the same today. I traveled to Prague, Bratislavia, the Tatra Mountains, all by train. The public transportation system was amazing, you could travel pretty much anywhere and everywhere by train or bus. Where I live, bus transportation rates have gone up, routes have been cut, and forget about conveniently taking a train anywhere. In Humenne, where my grandparents lived, there were quite alot of local neighbor stores, I remember walking to the market with my grandmother almost everyday for fresh ingredients for that days meals. Where I live, everything is either in a strip mall or plaza and definitely not in walking distance, the grocery store that I shop at is about ten miles away. I have a grandfather, several aunts and uncles that live there and my uncle Roman is the only one that even owns a car. My point being, that comparing gas prices in the US and Europe (at least the Czech Republic) is a little unfair as I think driving is more of a necessity in the US or at least we have to do more driving, public transportation is not very reliable and even nonexistent in some places, there are no more local neighborhood stores, have been replaced by giant corporate market chains, and even our kids get bussed to school.
Mike
Granted, but now you can't connect to the internet and visit SCF.
I wish I could improve my SU skills faster.
solo, the model and rendering are amazing, but what makes it even more amzing is that it was done under 7 hrs. Couldn't even image that sort of time limit, I've got a looonng way to go.
Mike
modelhead, thanks very much for the tut. This is exactly what I was trying to do with a piece of PTL and a piece of Trex. There were quite a few steps that I was missing before trying to make a texture tilable. Looking forward to part 2, thanks again.
Mike
I would also be very interested in how you do that. I'm very new to PS, just got my copy a couple of months ago, spent my Christmas break trying to make a few usable textures without much luck. I was taking photos of actual materials that are used on the jobsite and trying to use the offset filter to make them tilable. Didn't make much progress, so would appreciate any advice, tips, or tricks from taking the photo, best size to use for a texture, to making a it a seamless texture. Thanks.
Mike
Now I'm a little confused. I've read alot on this forum about graphics cards and have been researching which one to get. However when I ran the crowd test, my computer flew through it without any problems, all 11 scenes. I'm running Vista on a HP, AMD 64x2 2.6 ghz,500 GB harddrive, 4 GB of RAM, with intergrated graphics, Nvidia GeForce 6150SE. Am I missing something or is the crowd test actually not a very good measure?
Mike
Thanks for the comments guys.
Mike
Vesele Vianoce a Staslivy Novy Rok
Very nice render, I really like that style, was it created with PS and if so would you mind sharing your method?
Mike
Vesele Vianoce a Staslivy Novy Rok
Thanks Gidon, great book collection, will add some realism to differnt shelving.
Mike
Here's the link, found this program almost a year ago but still haven't used it.
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
Mike
Vesele Vianoce a Staslivy Novy Rok
Fun little sled I did for the Podium contest, now that the results are out, I figure it safe to post here. BTW thanks to solo for the snoloman.
Mike
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