Dear Michalis, dear all,

what amazing trees and work

As I'm finally learning Blender (!), I'm at the first level interested by this very instructive thread ++

(!)SU + Blender = war machine)

Re: The Blender Tree Generator
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=44345#p395545

@michaliszissiou said:

Thanks for the kind comments.
About the skp file:
It looks heavy ~15Mb for downloading. It's not that huge though, I just don't use components.
I tested another skp tree, full of components ~400kb downloading. It behaves heavily in SU making rather impossible to load 10-20 such trees. It won't happen with the one a shared.
@andybot
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=33448&p=372812#p372812
TIG's obj exporter thread.

1. SU exports non welded vertices as obj. Import in blender/edit mode, select all, delete double verts (under the [W] menu). This welds all verts.
2. The ruby addon, remove inner faces. Very useful to kill non manifolds at once.
3. be aware of the inverted faces in SU (the blue ones), you may fix it in blender but will mess the exported SU UVs.
4. SU uses ngons internally and exports triangulated meshes. Terrible topology for subdivisions, displacements etc. The funny thing is that new builds of blender 2.62/bmesh implemented these ngons too. You have knifes, push pulls, insets (SU F tool), arcs etc . And some terrible topology in the end. If you're going for displacements, subdivisions, sculpting.
   So, don't subdivide SU meshes. Just render them, apply better textures, unwrapping, materials for rendering (cycles), bumps. But never subdivide, it's logically impossible. You may retopo all these but not practical for archi vis projects.
5. Components: Explode them before it's too late

I've experienced some difficulty to find the Wikii Inner faces Remover you are talking about.I was remembering this inner faces remover but too vaguely to be able to find it on the forums and have found it into my downloaded plugins repertory. It is not referenced as a normal plugin but it is a reply from Wikii to a Pilou's request.

So here are the links :

Pilou _ [Plugin] Internal surfaces
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=12668&p=92295#p92295

Wikii remove_inner_faces.zip
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=12668&p=92295#p92295

Simon

@unknownuser said:

Zmodeler also post #357 This thread is a true gem

"This thread is a true gem": right it is sir! a great (and long) numeric trip

thanks Pilou
*+s

Hi Pilou,

Hope you feel good.
I often discover the tracks of your participation into the many places i'm grabbing informations concerning 3d activities

@unknownuser said:

Just missing for the fun Qubicle!

You may kidding a little I guess Qubicle seems very specialized in Lego modeling..

I'm surprised you don't speak about
Wings 3D as a free credible alternative

Do you know something about
Ayam

or

ZModeler

@unknownuser said:

Ce fameux logiciel 3d gratuit est un modeleur principalement prévu pour la réalisation de véhicules pour Grand Theft Auto, Mafia, Need For Speed, Midtown Madness, Colin McRea Rally, etc. C'est également le seul logiciel de création 3d permettant de manipuler le format 3d de Mafia, le *.4ds. Vous pouvez importer/exporter une grande partie des modèles de Mafia du dossier "models" et créer vos propres modèles grace à cet outil. Tous les modèles de véhicules que vous pouvez téléchargez sur ce site sont tous passé par ce ZModeler 1 !

....?

simon

Just to announce you that the DAZ offer (DAZ Studio + Bryce + Hexagon) is still available until the end of April!
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d/free-3d-software-overview

It is a good offer with no bad deal. You get yours serial numbers and upgrades will be free too. The mail announcements are a bit too recurrent

My personal interest goes Mainly to Hexagon which seems to be a good modeler and secondly to "Bryce"

At a first glance Hexagon works like a super "Artisan Tool"

[flash=800,450:378f1zdt]http://www.youtube.com/v/k0DPa7PmS74[/flash:378f1zdt]

import / export abilities:

links for complete beginners:
in french: Gérard SOOKAHET "Bien débuter avec Hexagon" + + +
http://gersoo.free.fr/Download/docs/hex-begin.pdf

in English: Hexagon Beginner's Tut on DeviantArt by ~Kethaera
http://kethaera.deviantart.com/art/Hexagon-Beginner-s-Tut-Part-1-128942202
http://kethaera.deviantart.com/art/Hexagon-Beginner-s-Tut-Part-2-128952991
http://kethaera.deviantart.com/art/Hexagon-Beginner-s-Tut-Part-3-128961275

links for home site, guides, help, video tutorials, external links:
Hexagon_links.txt

Re: I'm also learning Blender and giving a try to MOI at the same time. I can't actually say if I shall keep Hexagon aside blender..

++Simon

@unknownuser said:

In this case the wall vegetation is intended to be grapes and hops, which will be brewed into a limited edition wine and beer which can then be used for things like charity auctions etc.

Nice idea to give a constructed place a true life green sister personality... Even if the resulting brewed beer will certainly not be in a sufficient amount to lead a little guys friends band at the end of a good party: rollingunderthetable..

@unknownuser said:

The actual submission for the zoning amendment goes in on Monday.
Wish us luck.

Crossed fingers to your team for this nice model dear Dale.

++ Simon.

Dear Dale,
I like this house style: imbricated levels, various poles: each one with its own personality. A house under the sign of the squirrel seems to me.

Concerning the various renders, my vote goes with no doubt on the second one! Very nice style to show just enough reality to integrate the house plans and let imagine a world around and us living into it.

+++ Simon

Hi Gaï, TIG, tim, Jan,

Can someone shows in what sort of case this new plugin is (very) useful? Excuse me but my mind is dry to imagine it

simon

PS: However, thank you TIG for this one and how many others+++

Fine Design Spans Eras
Nice Bicycle, Nice car

A little bumpy but anyway,
here a Maserati Indy (personal phone picts)
(all Maserati)

simon

Hi Pilou and Sam,

Multiple Offsets works for me with Su7

However problems with the List Options:

• List:Offset by * 3
  Absolute and Delta choice gives the same result:

x3 Delta offset (see pict)
(colored after for a better watch)

• List: Offsets: + operator don't work and deletes the offseted faces

simon

Hi Dale,

Do you think "A VINTAGE SEQUENCE" would be interesting?

simon

Thank you Sam,

It's a gem.

older version overwritten by the new one

++simon

I think I experiment the same thing.

Need information on Square Bug

this had strangely and suddenly happened with both Su6 Su7 Su8 free and pro installed versions.
I have reinstalled my graphic card software_ anti virus scan etc...
have found nothing.

this happened not so often by now...

simon

Dear Dale,

Let me prefer the first one

Concerning Alberti, Leo Battista (1404-1472)
This link, especially for collectors:

De re ædificatoria libri decem

and these interesting articles about him (in french I'm sorry)
http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/traite/Images/ENSBA208/B_751062305_20_0001.jpg
Lire Alberti aujourd'hui

simon

PS: Thank you for the sculpture turorials +++

Hi Dave and Hieru,

interesting sequence of this thread isn't it?
Thank you again Dale for the reflections and the (pink) souvenirs!

• • we also (in France) had been "infected" by "Orange shag rugs that you could lose a pizza in."

It comes to me that the system is incredibly adaptive. The new "Bad Taste" (well wrapped) seems to me becoming the new "weapon for marketing"

I don't know as much as you both about PH. Starck

agree with your Hieru that "he expresses himself in a manner that is very humanistic and sympathetic"
for me those two pictures express that feeling:

The article Dale you were talking about:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/architecture/2011/02/a_discourse_on_emerging_tectonic_visualization_and_the_effects_of_materiality_on_praxis.html

I'm actually reading with great interest a book from another free thinking architect :Entretiens sur l'architecture par Eugène Viollet Le Duc.

Here is the link to read it and download it translated into English:
[url=http://www.archive.org/details/discoursesonarc00violgoog:2wqzmau8]Discourses on architecture (1959)[/url:2wqzmau8]

++simon

Thank you Dale,
You make me learn something new with the concept of "Cynical Design". The words bring to consciousness something that basically we suspected isn't it ?.

Then we have to re-consider and to think about the concept of "mauvais goût" (a typical french word !)

Making "beautiful" stuff as a "marketing weapon" is what France is specialize in must we admit

++simon

Hi Dale and Stefan

I remember many years ago to have visited his house with a tv team . a beautiful house bordered by the river Seine. The entrance walls was absolutely covered with pretty no free space with african masks. Questions about that.. the effect was great: gloomy, a bit stressful, beautiful. And at the same time the personality of each mask was something like denied...

In the main room, a collection of sea scenes earthenware was entirely ringing the room.

This collection of very "kitsch" objects once again was strange.

I'm far to like everything because Starck likes to play around the frontier of "mauvais goût"!!
And at the same time he reach sometime to touch genius.

by the way I have discovered the reflective aspect of his work which can lead to a better understanding of his way:

Example: those (seemingly) awful Gun lights:

Here is his reflection about Kalashnikov (automated Google translation)

301 Moved Permanently

(www.starck.com)

@unknownuser said:

To the Life, To the Death.
Then there have been trials of life, then a
sketch of life, then life.
It was of little value, life and death
confused, somewhat randomly, without
Importance.
But it worked. Much.
We created a civilization for Life
Vive.
Necessarily sublime, becomes sacred, untouchable,
The big, beautiful life, guaranteed for
everyone lived and survived to us, the twenty-first
Century, millennium, coming
of civilization civilized.
Bravo, sleep in peace.
PARATRAS.
It's never as is believed.
Hardly lived a small light cycle,
the shadow returns, fast dense, menacing.
Backspace, death awaits.
Today we kill. Religiously,
Militarily. Civilly. Sometimes
civilly. By ambition.
By greed. For fun. For
Show.
Are banana republics,
Our masters of tyrants.
Created, manufactured, sold, dreamed,
purchased, used, our new
icons are weapons.
Our lives are a carton.
The collection "Gun" is a sign of the times.
It has the symbols we deserve.
Glory to our dictators.
A life and death.
PH. S.
P. S.
Light, functional, low, affordable, stylish, with over 100 million
copies of products difficult, the
Kalashnikov is one of the largest
success of our Industrial Design
generation.
Mr. Kalashnikov receives no
royalties. He does not complain often.
So I will pay a commission to Mr.
Kalashnikov on sales of
representation of his model. The poor.
The rest will be donated to "Doctors Without Borders
International. " I wonder
well why.
Citizens to tears.
Citizens on Patrol.
Explanation:

• GOLD weapons represents the ratio between money and war.
• The table represents East Gun.
• Bed Side Gun Europe.
• Gun Lounge West.
• The abajour black represents death.
• The cross inside remind us of our dead.

++simon

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reeeally nice

It's each time a pleasure to come and watch

What is your position to give or not and how much thickness to the roofs ?

The stones wall texture is really great! and We are not shocked by the repeat.
The roof textures are simply wonderful!

I appreciate your pleasure to draw in the details like the individuals cap stones of the garden wall , the double hung windows, the garage doors...

I love the discrete render of the reflects into the glass windows..

May be a subtle Sketchup fog would give a better deepness effect ? I'm not sure

+++simon

Interested by the same question, I had found some time ago a tutorial developed for Unreal Development Kit Tutorials.

Tutorials:Adding variation to repeating textures

"Here it is VERY easy to see the repeating, and yes, this could RUIN the believeability"

"This is the final result. Some repeating is noticeable, but to fix this, tweak your diffuse textures to fit your desired look. Also, any grime layers you lay over this can be rotated slightly so they do not repeat along the same axis as the rest of your textures."

I'm far to have understood the complete process, but what I believe the basic is the following:

• take the seamless texture, decrease any obvious color repeating, multiply it four by four, add with post processing a seamless pattern noise, play with noisy bump or normal maps...
  (if someone understand better and in a way we can use it into SketchUP, he will be very welcomed )

No test from me actually

stay tuned,
simon.