Posts made by Gus R

@Rich-O-Brien said in Ant Chair - Series 7:

@Gus-R Lovely model and that interior is slowly becoming the most expensive room on the planet

Thanks Rich. Guess I should finally do a super car but I have other things to learn. I unwrapped the seat itself in Blender and it's far more accurate. Just have to learn how to unwrap the sides of the chair (not show here) unless you have a quick answer. I tried the seams thing but it unwraps in a circular fashion. That's the edge which can show the lamination of the wood.

Great work.

Ant Chair I started modeling in 2010 with information from "Republic of Fritz Hansen" which is a Series 7 Ant Chair that was designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955. The seat itself was tweaked with Artisan and the UV mapping was done with Fredo's Thrupaint. Textured in D5 Render. I created a solid color model and wood grain model and adjusted the materials as required. If you make the asset "unique" in D5 you can apply different materials or colors to the seat.

Another variation.

@Mike-Amos Apparently it's still popular with some folks.

My Mies van der Rohe + "New Home" with bonus EMD SD45.

Here's a bunch of variations.

This is the New House from WIP. Finished I guess. This could go on forever.

House I designed today from the ground up just using Sketchup. It's under construction.

@Rich-O-Brien The Barcelona Chair!

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks, Rich. I don't know if you remember but this was my first post on it back in 2009, "1962 Fender Stratocaster Body". Then I went dormant for several years. All of those were rendered in Kerkythea.

Couple more.

@Rich-O-Brien I was trying to find a blue velvet and then there it was.:

Yellow Terry Cloth

Plus I didn't want to spend too long noodling with it.

Here's my Fender Stratocaster rendered in D5 Render. It wasn't too difficult to convert to D5 materials and a lighting set-up. This was first rendered in Kerkythea, then Thea Render and here in D5 Render.

@Rich-O-Brien Glad you brought that up. Maybe we can get Trimble to change this because it's an ADA violation. Seriously though my eyes are getting worn out with age and 2024's design went in the wrong direction.

@Rich-O-Brien Yes, it's not very clear. Quixel Mixer has an option to download all acquired assets under the library menu. I have no idea how big it would be. I clicked it and it started downloading but stopped it. You can get a portable 4TB SSD for about $100.

The caveat is they use the word "may" instead of "will." The question is which one is it. By saying "you may lose access" that leaves everything up in the air. I'm not really interested in the 3D assets but instead the materials and Quixel Mixer. Another lingering question is will Quixel Bridge work stand-alone when it's sunset.

Speaking of sunsets. Skecthup will disable 3D Warehouse, Extension Market and location on Sketchup 2022 next year. Anyone that wants to use those will have to use 2024. I already installed 2024 and did a dirty transfer of all my plugins without a glitch short of a couple of plugins. The icons are terrible and the text is hard to read so I ended up putting it on large icons which looks kind of funny. I'm used to 2022 already.

I don't know if anyone saw this yet. From Quixel's FAQ about the transfer.

Do I get access to free Megascans forever?

Before Fab’s launch, you can get Megascans for free from Quixel.com or Bridge. You can use them for free forever under the terms of the Epic Content License. Please note that these assets will not receive updates after Fab has launched. When Quixel.com and Bridge are sunset, you may lose access to these assets unless you have saved them locally.

From Fab’s launch until the end of 2024, you can get Megascans for free under Fab’s Standard License. Any Megascans that you add to your Fab library during this promotional period will remain available to you for free even after this promotion ends.

@ntxdave You're welcome, Dave. I was trying to figure out how to do my brick arches in Blender that doesn't involve an hour on some procedural. There's a lot of really good videos on Youtube but nothing that gets it done fast and simple. Then while there's a lot of great Youtube tutorials on Blender a lot of them seem to talk 100 MPH and they have 20/15 vision.

@Rich-O-Brien You can do this with shape bender too although the "bricks" at the top widen out. Ignore the exaggerated proportions.

The line used in Shape Bender had to be the same distance as the overall length of the arc + sides.

@TIG Right. Shape Bender!