@krisidious said:
it's sahpe seems irregular all the way around, like a real apple... is that the case or is it an illusion?
just an illusion, its regular all the way around, except for the top section where the stalk comes from, there are a few irregularities there but not many.
thanks for the comment about how real the skin is, as i said i was pleased with the texture, particularly how seam lines hardly show up, and the lack of 'smearing' of the texture.
Gai, yes I did render it (i was suprised how well it came out to be honest)
You can see the render of it in a scene here
Did this about a month ago (in fact it was part of my first post on these forums), and thought I'd add it to the catchup competition. Nothing very complicated, but I quite liked the texturing I'd achieved.
Sketchup files:apple.skp
Thanks for the comments. I had half intended to do more with the book - If you noticed with the open book in particular, the cover, pages, and sleeve are modelled separately - with the sleeve even having the inner parts textured as well. I think i started out expecting to be able to model it and be able to open the pages like a real book or something!
Did this over my lunch break, and thought I might as well put it on here as part of the catchup competition.
its two components really - an open and closed book
Sketchup files:
book_open.skp
book_closed.skp
Edit: updated skp files as i had modelled them 10 times real size
Here is my entry:
Quick render in Kerkythea as well:
And finally the SU file:
click here! (it comes in at about 2mb as I got a little carried away with modelling the icing joints etc)
Enjoy!!
I used soap skin bubble as part of my weld tutorial, and have continued to use this method for my current mountian bike model. However for large joints there becomes quite a large number of individual 'welds' all generally having the same amount of pressure applied via ssb.
What I would like to be able to do is select multiple skins and apply the same pressure to each, but ssb will only apply this pressure to one ssb skin at a time.
Having to select each weld and apply pressure to each individually is very time consuming, and I thought someone may be able to help create a ruby script that would work in conjunction with ssb??
Thanks for the comments.
@daniel said:
It would make a great cover for a Christmas card.
I think I am going to make it into a card, along with a snowman version aswell...
This is something I've been wondering about aswell. I realise that I could use the follow me tool, but this doesn't really work for chamfering two curved surfaces such as the one shown below
The shape above is easy to do manually but more complicated shapes aren't as easy (or quick) to do.
First post here since the move across to these forums and was feeling inspired to do something christmassy, so decided to render a (non realistic looking) christmas tree.
Rendered in Kerkythea
I use the click-move-click method for nearly everything.
This is the way i've always used it from when I first tried SU (ver 3 I think) but its probably because of using other programs like autocad before SU and is therefore what I'm most used to and comfortable with.
I visit here nearly everyday as well, and enjoy looking at what everyone is using su for, as well as the useful hints that I have gained by just reading the forums. Since I first posted here the forums have got better and better. The only thing I think (as others have mentioned) is the number of sections/sub-sections, personally I would be quite happy to have a single 'off-topic' section, although which others you'd get rid of I'm not sure.
As for the change to phpbb 3, it would be a positive move as far as I'm concerned.
@pixero said:
Coen, I like it better with the avatar and personal info to the left.
We read from left to right and I believe its better to see who has posted before reading the post. IMHO.
The name of the poster is actually above the post on the left aswell (under the title of the post) - takes a little getting used to at first though!
Dylan suggested that it would be nice to put this in the tutorials forum, so here it is...
(originally from this topic)
Heres a quick (simplified) run through of what I did.
Note: you need SoapSkinBubble installed for this.
(click on the images for a larger view)
I've just used a simple cylinder and a flat plane to show you but the principle should be the same for any shape.
create the outer edges of the weld
Draw arcs between the outer edges of the weld (you probably only need 6 segments at most for this)
Select the edges of one 'weld' and click the creat skin button (the vcb will control the number of divisions for the skin - i chose 5 or 6)
Once the skin has been created, enter the group and soften all the edges.
Exit the group and click the Generate soap bubble button - the vcb control the 'pressure' - try out a few different values to see which works best - I chose about 300.
Repeat 3-5 until you've gone all the way around the joint. (in this instance the weld could have simply been rotated and copied around the cylinder to complete the weld, but for more complicated shapes this obviously won't work, as each part of the weld could be a different shape)
Edit (13/07/09): Re-Uploaded images at simon le bons request, also noticed post didn't link to my original topic (marin bike)