Box, you absolute star!! Thank you so much! That is perfect! When you say that you 'cleaned up' the edges, what did you mean/do exactly? Just so I know for future modelling! I welded a lot of the edges/curves - did that cause problems?

Anita

John, thanks for getting back to me. The 'offset' hidden geometry was the original shape that was subsequently modified. I did what you suggested and it did the same thing, even when I scaled it up 200. Any other ideas?

Thanks

Hey everyone,

I've been trying to soften the corners on a bed component and I'm doing something wrong. I've attached the SKP file for reference. I selected the entire face initially but the plugin struggled to process it, so I selected individual lines. On Scene 2 you can see that it worked fine but as I selected additional lines (scene 3) things started to go awry, the entire face disappeared.

All thoughts greatly appreciated!

Anita

Bed Corner.skp

Kristoff, my bell is most definitely not broken! It was momentarily silenced by the shock!

Box!!!! Can't beat a decent knocker!

I'm the same! I've been doing A LOT of 3D visuals recently and the thought of upgrading to SU 2014 was too much of a headache. Although, I'll obviously be using SO 2013 anyway because I don't have the most up-to-date version of Maxwell Render. Grrrrrrrrr...

Although, just as observation: architectural exterior rendering is a completely different ballgame to interior rendering. I'm not sure I will be extending my portfolio to include exteriors - they don't 'ring my bell'!

OH!!!!! Doh!!

Praise the Lord!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Hey guys,

I've got a query. I've recently received a commission from an Architect to provide exterior renderings. He sent me his SKP file today and when I tried to open it, I was advised that because I was using SU 2013 (PRO) that I couldn't. This perplexed me somewhat.

So then I upgraded to SU 2014 (PRO) - I already had my license details and decided that now was a good time to upgrade. I use Maxwell Render and copied my Maxwell plugin folder into my SU 2014 plugins folder (it took me A LONG TIME to do this because of all the locked permissions on my laptop!!!! NOT HAPPY!!!!).

When I opened SU 2014 I couldn't see the Maxwell Render extension, so I did a bit of digging and this is what I found out from the Maxwell Render forum: I use version 2.7.20 of Maxwell Render (they recently launched version 3). But it would appear that version 2.7.20 is not compatible with SU 2014. So this leaves me with no choice but to use SU 2013, which is fine. But it's not fine when clients send me SKP files using SU 2014 that I can't open using SU 2013.

Anyone got any ideas as to how I solve this (without upgrading to Maxwell Render v3 because I only renewed my current license last November)??

Thanks
Anita

Oops, I used Windows Movie Maker (I know, so basic but so effective!) but was heavily reliant on Photoshop to create the individual frames!

Pugz,

I'm so glad that you understood what I was trying to do with that animation...it would appear with the two 'thumbs down' on my Youtube ratings that some people just didn't get it Which is slightly disheartening but hey, you can't win 'em all!!

I thought the image quality of the birds was ok, but yes, the rabbit could have been better. Actually, my favourite cartoon character was the flying bird in the background!

You're so right about wanting to chuck the laptop out the window...towards the end I wanted to put my laptop in a headlock!! The only saving grace was The XX song - I love it. I certainly do not love the second song; it's one of those songs that infuriates you so much but once you hear it, you just can't stop singing it!!!

I got a much better overall response to my first animation of the light bulb, maybe I should just stick to more 'inspirational' and 'serious' animations!

I'd love to see your animation - can you provide a link?

Anita

Mike! Thank you so much! I did enjoy making it; although it was over 200 frames and towards the end I was starting to loathe it!

Mission accomplished!

Another animation folks. Let me be clear: this is intentionally over the top, absurd and ever so slightly kooky!!!! And I also think it's downright hilarious!! But then, I always did have a strange sense of humour...

Thanks Dave, my wee mucker!

Thank you!

Thank you!

@box said:

It was blocked earlier.

Weird. They were all set to 'public'??!! Maybe there was a problem with the Flickr website??

@krisidious said:

That's a great looking portfolio Anita.

Thank you, I really appreciate that! It's taken me a long time to get to my current standard. Self-teaching is no joke!

Guys, my apologies. I didn't realise that you needed a Flickr account in order to view images. What a croc!!

I've attached the images in smaller formats - I hope it doesn't affect their quality.

Anita

Ok, I've taken on board the feedback that I've received on the forum - if these renders are not an improvement on my last ones, I'll eat my hat!!

I've attached a link to my flickr account, hope it works (scroll to the right to view the other two). I can't upload my images in PNG format here and when you convert to JPEG the image loses clarity - which kinda defeats the point!

Anita

Contemporary Kitchen - 3

Flickr (www.flickr.com)

@rich o brien said:

Free the weed

LOL!!! Nice! But I think in a public forum I'll go with 'For The Win'!!!

Pbacot, thanks! A calling card!! I like it!