Posts made by marvins_dad

Hey Jax...

I have been thinking about modeling an old Depot in my birth town for a little while.
I was getting ready to contact the local Historic Preservation after doing a few google searches to see if there were any plans on the building documented anywhere. Since they are looking at restoring the building it looks as if they had as-builts done, at least partially - and they are located on the Library of Congress website. Looks like a good starting place for anyone looking for historical documents.

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/la0418/#step3

I got lucky and was linked from this website that discusses the history of the building.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/caneriver/tex.htm

Hope this helps in whatever project you are hunting down.

I can't believe someone hasn't done this yet...at least not in this thread...

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Really Cool

Thanks!

I was looking to try this out to combine 3 large files.

but...
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=7330

Seems that the Tutorial has vaporized.

Any ideas if there are any other locations that can give me an idea how to get around with this ruby?

Thanks

Nice! I have plans to visit Chaco again next summer.
Pueblo Bonito...nice!

@newguy said:

It looks like I can't update a live Poll. So hopefully "Other" will cover what I missed.

Looks like someone updated it for you.

He didn't forget mine...Architecture and Design...or Designing Architecture.

I had a similar problem. I ended up giving up on them all together. It was nice that you could make your own markers, but for any large model it would offset the model from the marker point that it was unusable.

Looks good, love the FotoSketcher. Haven't used it yet for a schematic image yet, but I am gaining inspiration.

LOL - Gai

The newest building is 1908! That's awesome!
Monroe Shops was built in 1914. They just don't build and maintain buildings in the states the way they do over there.

I modeled a historic building for a project that is now under construction.
It was called Monroe Shops - in Dallas, Texas. Apparently it was a maintenance facility for Trolleys back in the day. Now we are re-occupying the building for DART police. Adaptive reuse for the police of the modern transit system.

We were fortunate to have drawings to go by from the client and previous renovation. But we also got a great deal from a local University's library of images throughout the years. I could always go to the images to see how it was supposed to look, because sometimes it was documented incorrectly in the field verification documents.

I ended up only working with a section of the interior where we were housing a historical trolley car in the lobby - but it was fun learning all the history while doing the research for the project.

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I can assure you they are pretty heavy files. I sometimes go to them for the range, but they can bog down really fast because of their size. I have even cropped a few down in the past.

I created the texture and gave it the 83+" scale. That makes it about a 6'+ texture...so it won't repeat on a 5'

If you like I can share jpg versions with you...they are still quite large though ~19mb...that way you can test it out yourself before you purchase. I can set up an FTP for you to pull it down.

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Example: Wood-01 6002px x 6002 px or 83.351"x83.351" at 72dpi = about a 45mb png file

Which specific texture are you looking for?
Looks like I have Volume 1

I made my decision based on the ease to work within SketchUp, tweak and re-render since I am constantly updating my designs. Using it as a design tool more than a final render tool.

I had worked with Kerkythea, but every time I had to make a change it was difficult to reload the file without something blowing up and re-texturing got really old. When Twilight came out, being a child of Kerkythea, it was an easy decision to work with it. The added bonus of being able to continue to work on the model while it renders in the background is really cool!

Never heard that word, but I could start using it.

We use the term "Parti" regularly to describe the Initial Idea/Plan and sometimes I call an initial Model a "Parti Model". That language came from my particular Architecture School - I sometimes get blank stares when speaking to people that graduated from other schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti

That's a good idea...both - the avatar and the username.

My username comes from my online name for my beetle...whenever we get together at car shows people more often call me Marvin than Antoine. LOL
But, meeting folks after seeing their avatars and usernames for so long it would be easy to walk past someone you have talked to for years if they just had their proper names on their name tags.

I guess it's down to take the netbook (light) or the workstation grade laptop (heavy) or just rely on the Android enabled G1 (it IS Google, after all - right?!).
Maybe I will see if SketchUp will run on the netbook...probably not.