@olishea said:
I know, the scheme is just awful. Its really boring working on things like this!!
Thanks for the advice!
Mate that's where your job lies! To make it look good even though the designer didn't! Though yeah your work is cut out for you here!
Hi!
Every time I need stainless or some other shiny material, I just use a big image of that material (a photograph for instance) (you can even stretch it quite a bit). Here's an example of stainless (works for glass surfaces too. Look's ok, even when moving in the model). Works pretty well for my projects even though it's not a tileable texture. Sometimes even renders quite nice (but most of the times not
Antti
[image: TJpI_steel.jpg]
yes it is weird, especially the outdoor 'al fresco' kitchen haha.....but you gotta give him some credit....its the first thing he's ever designed!
the model was an absolute nightmare to work with: no layers, no groups, no components, no textures, no trees, no windows, no lights......just pure messy geometry (takes me back to when I first learnt SU!!)
Thanks Olishea. I always try to "draw over" when i can for things like foreground lamp posts, etc, as i did in the image posted at top (the outdoor seating area is new) but no matter what it seems you are correct... the better final product will always need to be rendered and comp'd in PS to get things just right. Excellent masking tutorial link, btw. thanks for sharing.
I didn't export shadows in these images, they are just the podium shadows. I only exported the SU shadows to add a blurry effect for another project.
If you read the whole of this tut I've explained how to do it.
http://supodiumforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3446402
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