Posts made by massimo

Thank you very much guys.

Hi guys, long time no see...
This is something I started some time ago, well actually a few years ago, but that I managed to try to finish only now after I forsaken it.
It is a nice three floors semi-detached house in Switzerland designed by Christian Kerez.

The peculiarity of this house is the fact that it has only a single shaped wall, hence the name, on every floor that, running longitudinally, divides the two flats. The dividing wall is the only wall in the entire house and it cannot be crossed anywere. It is the load bearing structure and the installation core, its folds define all of the rooms and it determines how the view from the entirely glazed building is divided between the two living units.

The space I wanted to represent should have been empty, not yet inhabited or by now uninhabited, without furnitures and with almost no technological systems, taking a set of nice photographs as a reference.
In fact, I think that this kind of spaces are at their best if represented like this. Almost as if, as soon as they were built, they were already an abandoned ruin.

Despite the apparent semplicity, a bit of time was spent on the details of the model, tuning the materials and in the building of the context around the house.
For the lighting was used a HDRI. Sketchup and Thea 1.5 standalone. The post-pro was done in Photoshop and ArionFx.
As usual, feel free to comment.

Didn't try to go to the end, to submit some changes I mean, but so this doesn't work?

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@dave r said:

I updated your e-mail address and sent you a PM to let you know but haven't heard back yet.

Great. Now I just wonder why he couldn't change his email address by himself...

@damathecat said:

massimo,

Large thanks for the reply. I went to 'settings', account settings' and all I got was a blank SU screen with a small box for 'log out'.

Maybe I should just start a new Account?

Again, thank you!

Have you already tried to log out and then log in again and do what I have suggested?

I think you can do that under "settings"-->"profile"-->"account settings" and there you should be able to change your email address.

De rien.

@dverger said:

Est-ce qu'un utilisateur de Thearender pourrait m'indiquer comment avoir des ombres moins durs en rendu? Merci.

Sorry if I reply in english, but I hope it's useful anyway.

In order to have softer shadows from a point light source, you need to:

sun
-select the sun in the scene tree view panel;
-click on "properties";
-check "manual sun";
-check "soft shadow";
-increase the value of the "radius multiplier".

omni-spot-ies-projector
-select the point light in the scene tree view panel;
-click on "properties";
-check "soft shadow";
-increase the value of the soft shadow.
By doing that basically you increase the size (radius in meters) of the point light and then the shadows will be softer.

@dan rathbun said:

@penpendrum said:

I sorry if posted in a wrong forum
can we just continue?

I'll get a moderator to move the thread.

Done.

Love the last one.

@cjryan said:

Massimo, that plugin does look interesting, but for future use. Oh and your last comment was that it failed to install, does it work now?

Yep, works just fine even if I use it with SU 2014. It is supposed to work better with SU 2015+ versions.

This is a nice plugin, very funny to work with. Perhaps could be useful?

Best wishes on my part too.

@rich o brien said:

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Well said FriedRICH.

Ok, thanks, I will definitely give a closer look to it.

Ciao. Thanks for the infos.

@unknownuser said:

Given that you're referring to an intimidating UI, I'm assuming you're talking about Substance Designer

Yeah probably. Sorry, never really looked at them. I meant something like this :

@unknownuser said:

Felt, eh? Dammit.

Hmmm, perhaps more something like a worn felt to my eyes. Very good work though.
I especially like the "no idea of what this is" material.
How is your experience with that Substance thing btw? The interface looks really intimidating and most of the mats I've seen around have, IMO, a bit a C-Games taste.
Oh, I guess you've already seen these: https://www.arroway-textures.ch/en/products/designcraft-2.

Hi, I know these two plugins for that:

http://www.smustard.com/script/MakeFaces
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ithil_facefinde_reverseface

Of course, if lines are coplanar, you can simply try to draw a big rectangular surface which intersects with the cad-lines.