Ah. My hero! Thank you.

I ought to know this but I can't remember.

Someone sent me a model to critique. evidently they have applied a camera format from the Film and Stage plugin which I don't have and would rather not get. There are gray areas on the top and bottom of the drawing window. Can I get rid of them without the plugin? How?

Thanks for the help.

Thank you, Daniel.

Yes, I don't think there'd be no problem with the footrest. The bolt alignment would be similar to putting hinges on adjacent sides of a square box and expecting the lid to open.

Thank you Gai. You know, I thought about soft shadows. They are turned on but I suppose I need to replace the spot lights with some larger sources.

Wall changed. Skirting board added. Cropped to hide most of the shadow on the stone. I alsso a ceiling to the set to keep some light in.

@sepo said:

We are talking renders, right? So no scribing

Well, I was hoping you'd come over and scribe the wood to fit the stone wall for real.

"In this case I would put skirting board on the junction with wall."

So you'll be over to scribe the skirting board to fit the stone?

Here's a new version with the white stone with bump cranked up. I also got a bit more strategic about cropping.

Thanks for the suggestion Gai. I did change the color and started it cooking. I like the stone being more white but the shadow still looks like it is falling on a flat surface. I set the bump to 6.00. Problem is, I have no idea what sort of range there is or what sort of scale there is to the bump map level. I'm going to stop the render and increase the bump more to see what happens.

Thank you gai. I know that stone is too flat. I had tried adding som bump to the wall but it looked pretty awful. I suppose I should try something other than the stone but I was looking for a nice contrast to the wood and steel.

I'll give it another shot, though, with some bump.

thanks again.

Dave

Sort of dark and moody but I kind of like the stage-like lighting. 46 passes of MLT.

FWIW, here's the cabinet with the QSWO texture applied. I only made sure the grain orientation was correct but it is clear I need to find some additional textures for this.

Thank you all. No, Eric, I haven't built one yet. I have the same concern about the foot rests. I was thinking of drilling extra holes through the straps and the legs and using an annealed steel rod as a rivet. If it was ground and filed off flush, it wouldn't be visible. The bolts and nuts called out for the project are square. I kind of like the idea of those.

Coen, I like the icons, too. It's all cool.

It's probably been said but I thought I'd make a new post to say it again.

Thanks for setting this up. I'm not a fan of the Google Groups layout either. This arrangement seems so much more user friendly. It's great to see the activity, too.

Keep up the great work.

Dave

Thank you.

First run through KT.

This is based on one in a woodworking magazine I have.

Well, yeah. You know that endorphine rush is kind of addicting.

Thank you.

Just for exercise.

Hey Modelhead! I had a bit of a chance to play with that texture. It works pretty well. See this link: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=3953

Thank you very much. I wish I understood how to do what you did. I imagine I could find some additional quarter sawn oak textures that could be handled the same way and they could be used together to create some variation.

Thanks again.

Dave

Here are three variations of a quarter sawn oak texture. Thanks to Modelhead for converting the lousy JPG I gave him into something very usable.

Quarter Sawn Oak.skp