Posts made by shawb

Initially you could try using the 'Reduce polygons' tool in the dropdown menu: Tools/Artisan/Reduce Polygons. This might simplify your shape.

(on a PC/Windows 10) You could try a search from the Taskbar or go to the File explorer in the Start menu. Just a matter of looking through each of the sub-directories to find the app required. Make a note of the location and then go back into Layout to link.

Suggest having a look at the Layout dropdown menu: Edit/Preferences/Applications/Default Image Editor. Could be that you need to relink after an operating system update. That's as much as I can come up with!

@shawb said:

Consider setting up the lighting first with just the overall enclosed space modeled. Or copy/paste the room shell into a separate file to run test renders with simple shapes painted with your textures.

Maybe this could help with the shadows as well?

@bryan k said:

it's not really the lighting effect I had in mind

How did you achieve the tint? Could it be too 'warm'? I just remembered a posted comment on one of my own renders which concerned the colour warmth value. It prompted me to search for an RGB value for the effect I wanted so a search for something like 'RGB value for red fluorescent light' might be an avenue to explore. Setting the colour of the ambient light sources might work rather than applying an overall tint in PP. (if that is what you did!)

@bryan k said:

But what am I doing wrong?

Absolutely nothing at all! The only person you can look to please is yourself. I think the only way to go is to ask yourself if what you have produced has gone some way to bring life to the idea that you had in your mind.

Its nice to get the good comments and approbation of fellow modelers but if no-one says your renders are downright bad then that's a win. There is no judgement save that which we inflict on ourselves and that is, perhaps, the harshest of all. It could be that many folk looking at the postings feel that they, somehow, are not qualified to pass comment but that doesn't mean that they don't appreciate what they see.

@bryan k said:

it's not really the lighting effect I had in mind, but no way to adjust due to long render time.

Consider setting up the lighting first with just the overall enclosed space modeled. Or copy/paste the room shell into a separate file to run test renders with simple shapes painted with your textures. Even one texture at a time just to get multiple test renders faster?

Apart from that, keep posting!

Very nice! I like the monitor array, think how many SU plugin toolbars you could have on view?

Ah! Now I get it. Completely different thought process, not a poker player but a remembered popular Country song by Ned Miller circa 1957. Had to look that up as I'm not a fan of the genre but now it will be going around in my head for days.

Has to be 'From a Jack to a King'?

Reckon you've nailed it! That light is now washing into the room.

The outside backdrop is nicely soft focus to give depth of field and the sunlight hitting the window behind the blind is excellent. Huw Edwards and the BBC News service in general would benefit from being switched off so just a blank screen would do it!

Hmm.. I see a plus one there so maybe there will be others who can see a resemblance to their own! For the record, no mothers-in-law or ex mothers-in-law were used as source material for this model.

@shawb said:

A powerful reminder that such terrible events have no relevance to our lives today.

That should have read that such events are, of course, still relevant to our lives today. Excuse my poor proof reading!

Arriving at a destination and finding it covered in scaffolding/plastic would be a normal experience for me! There are a number of similar sites around the UK and a virtual tour of, say, Beamish Open Air Museum and the Black Country Museum would entertain during our enforced isolation. I think we somehow get used to thinking that the world used to be in black and white. Of course Victorian buildings were once new and very much in colour. Sites such as Blists Hill reflect this but we still think it odd to view things in this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYIeactlMWo

The above link is to original WW1 film that has been colourised and is quite startling in it's impact. The people in it could be just the same as the ones down your own street. A powerful reminder that such terrible events have no relevance to our lives today.

A departure from my usual modelling but an exercise in native tool use only. Non render with just a little Photoshop to finish. I don't even particularly like snakes!

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Thank you Dave. I would like to visit Blists Hill myself sometime. That area is where it all began for modern iron and steel making. I think the loco you would have seen is a replica of the one that Trevithick built after the Penydarren one. Known as the 'Coalbrookedale' I believe. He also built a road locomotive at this time. During an outing it ended up in a ditch whereupon all involved retired to a local inn. A loud explosion was heard later when the boiler burst. No-one had thought to drop the fire.

For me the outstanding image has to be the fireside composition posted Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:27 pm. The light falling on the armchair with the blanket and newspaper are totally convincing. Superb work!

Thank you xayzer. The rails at that time were made of cast iron. The arching was for strength I would imagine. Also, they were only meant to support the weight of wagons that could be pulled by a horse. On maps from the period they would have been shown as 'Wagonways' & 'Tramways'.

The engine that I have modelled was a lot heavier than the existing rolling stock and so was continually breaking the rails. Although the engine was successful in pulling a lot more weight it was soon relegated to the factory to serve as a stationary engine. The rail technology had some catching up to do!

Nice drawing with a vintage flavour. A long time ago I used to deliver to a company that made the leather belting that was used on those lineshafts and things like drive takeoffs from traction engines. Apparently there is no substitute for the way in which leather has the right friction to move with the smooth pulleys.

When I was teaching myself AutoCAD I was lucky to acquire two volumes of the following:

Engineering Drawing with Worked Examples Volume 1 & 2 by Parker & Pickup

Still to be found on Amazon they contain a wealth of detail on engineering drawing. I practiced drawing the examples in the book many, many times in AutoCAD to improve my speed and drawing efficiency. I no longer have the books (I think I don't!) so can't try the examples in Sketchup.

Simple answer - trust nobody! We have to get our collective heads out of our collective arses and start thinking for ourselves.