Posts made by JHuman

Looks good! I especially like the fourth image, great job!

Hmmm, no I didnt, but thats a good idea! I will give it a shot, thanks for the advice. There are a couple of those scale rubies out there for circular shapes I might give one of those a shot. Thanks Honolulu, opened up a whole new thought processes!

I figured out how to sort of make it work. I ended up having to cut the oblong oval shape into about 5 or 6 different groups, then intersecting and subtracting from each one individually, then combining them back into one piece. The intersecting shapes had to have a very high segment count to appear smooth.

Honolulu, that’s pretty much the same approach I took, but since my shape was not a perfect circle and the soffit drops down and goes back up and snakes its way around the oval shape, this wasn’t as easy as it looked. I will post a final image once it’s all rendered in vRay.

Thanks for the help, if anyone else has more suggestions that would be great!!!

Sorry about the images, I knew how to do this with intersecting shapes and cutouts. Once I get the images up it will make more sense. Thanks for the reply!

I am modeling an "accent" piece for an interior lobby. The shape is somewhat oval in plan but I need to cut out shapes (see attached image).
I managed to do most of this conceptual peice in Photoshop but now we are doing a flythrough and I need to figure out how to do this in complete 3D. If anyone has any ideas that would be great!

Thanks

I like it a lot Pete, great work!

The only thing that stands out to me first off is that the hotel / condo is right on the beach. Most of the time there is some hardscaping to ease you onto the beach area. Also, put a few folks walkin around, no sharks in the water though

But, everything else is amazing, lighting and all, especially for no post processing.

Looks pretty sweet, the watercolor effect hides a lot of the imperfections, great idea!

Getting closer but it still needs work. I would first try and find an eye level that makes sense, either physical eye level (maybe 5'6") or birds eye, or pick a surrounding building to be "looking out the window in". Speaking of surrounding buildings where are they? You need to add the site surroundings in so it doesn’t make it look like its out in the middle of nowhere. Add some people walking around and cars driving and stopped at stoplights and I think you will be well on your way.

I would agree with Daniel. Also, the building looks very flat (like you pasted the images of the building on an extruded rectangle). I would zoom in closer, and make sure it is not a flat building, especially if you are presenting it to clients! Good luck.

What I do when importing cad to SU is do a save as and change all the linetypes to layer 0, make sure my model is on the 0,0 origin and then purge. Then do a LAYDEL command and delete any remaining layers. Make sure your drawing units are set up correctly otherwise it will come into SU not how you want it.

In SU do a purge and group the floor plan. I never draw using the geometry from ACAD, it has always resulted in larger file sizes and corrupt drawings.

Hope this helps.

Depends on how much detail you want to show, and if you are using it for rendering or just SU output. This is usually a few hours to complete, textured and all.

That house I have to say was terribly modeled, everything is attached (not using components or groups) and the layout is awful, but it should only take a couple hours.

Thanks for the comments! The coffee cups were the area of concern as well. I am going to try and keep them in but not make them so much of a distraction. The cups, I thought were higher poly count but after it rendered they came out different than expected. I touched them up a little in PS but not enough.

The ceiling track needs to be edited, its just the reflection of the lights, but the metal shouldn’t be that reflective, it should be more of a anodized aluminum / matte finish. I really do appreciate all the comments and crits, it always helps!

I posted this a while back on the vRay forum, it still hasn’t got updated since the client loved it, but there are a few things I would change. Comments are very much welcomed!

Looks good! Im not to familiar with Modo but I think the camera could have been a little slower in some spots, but overall it looked great.

Another question for you all.
How do you best model in SU to import into VUE. I think it would be good practice to name my components. It looks like it breaks every piece into a single component though. Any thoughts would be helpful though, thanks!

Very amazing work! I love it.

Very nice images! Love the birds eye views.

Yes, thats what I've been telling them for a while, but they always seem to wait to long then no really realizes the learning curve on any program, especially a 3D Modeling / Rendering program.

Im just trying to get proof that people have used it the way we want to, thats the only way they will buy it

We do own 3DStudio MAX, about 50 licenses, and none of them get used cuz no one knows it well enough to do anything with it, I think the learning curve on VUE would be less than MAX, and I hear VUE works much better with Sketchup. Thanks Chris for your reply!

I am trying to convince the company I work for to go for VUE, but I need some other imput to back up my claim. They are under the impression that everything can be done in SU and Max. So I am just curious on everyone elses workflow and software collection. At my business (separate from this job) use several different software packages depending on the job, I am trying to get them to understand this. So if there is a way some of you could list your workflow that would be amazing! Thanks!

Thanks Pete! I will check on there. It talks somewhat about it here and there but no one has ever given me a clear answer. I gotta know before I spent a grand on it. But it would be nice, I have several projects right now that it would be great for!