Rich_Winsor

Well. for the record I was just taking the ball

Chopsaw threw out there and running with it.

For anyone interested the process involved

opening the image from Briarcliff in PSP and

cropping out the door frame. I also took the

liberty to convert the door glass in the image

to a transparent background. Then in Chief I

converted the PSP image into a material and

applied it to a plain slab door. I wasn't sure if

it would work, but applying the material to the

door cut a transparent hole in the slab for the

glass window. The transparent window glass

and an actual 3D handle on the door go a long

way to convincing the mind that the door isn't 

just a flat image.

And thanks for the kind words Michael. 

.

6 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

Yup something like that but with the door frame cropped out so people don't fall for that trick. 

We worked on the last one together Rich but that was a few years ago I think.

Geeze, picky picky picky.  I just grabbed the 

wrong (uncropped) image when i was making

the new material for the door. Does this one

float your boat? 

2 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

There is even a fairly good image if you wanted to just do a "painted" door rather than modeling every detail.

 

Something like this?

That picture doesn't do it any favors.

Are they building a dungeon?   

On 8/14/2020 at 7:42 AM, PamelaT said:

Doing a Kitchen with Glass Counter Tops, anyone have a technique on how to get them to render as glass without increasing the emissive factor, which makes them glow.

 

Thanks Pamela

Hey PT. This is quite a wide ranging question.

There are a lot of variables that can come into

play here. What type of "render" are you using? 

For my money ray tracing will yield the best

results for you. 

For starters make sure the "reflections" box is

checked in the Camera Spec. DBX for the camera

you are using. Then you can change the Material

of the counter top to one of the glass types in the

Core Catalogs. You should also have a play with

the different Material Classes in the Define Material

DBX using the rainbow (Adjust Material Definition)

tool.

In this quick example I used a Custom Counter Top

set to 1/2 inch thick and changed the Material to

"Smoked Glass". I then used the rainbow tool to

change the  Material Class to "Transparent". I also

bumped up the "Index of Refraction" to exaggerate

the effect. 

Hope this gives you something to work with as I don't

like to see unanswered questions here on the forum. 

All I have to say about this thread is that

I'm glad I don't have anything to add. 

10 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Ok great , my post was actually directed at Rich  who offered the File .....

Mick my man, you are honest to a fault. 

I was one of apparently only three who bought the

latest available version from Charles. As I recall

shortly after that the trail to Kerry Francis went cold.

With him unavailable and/or unresponding I don't 

have a problem passing it along (for free) to interested

parties.

If someone finds a current source, then by all means

go that route. It was well worth the $20 asking price

I paid.

@basilbabaa, I forgot to attach the symbol

so here it is if you can use it.

GDW Test Door.calibz

I don't want to step on anybody's toes, but if

this software is no longer being offered for

sale, I don't have a problem with giving it out

to people who would like it. It's just a small

(6.3 Mb) executable file.

You might also have a play with the "Hide Camera

Facing Exterior Walls" feature. Depending on where

the small area is (near an exterior wall) you can back

off the camera.

Search the forum for the Garage Door Wizard.

12 hours ago, DougDM said:

I think mine look better. You can't get the turns (2" and 4" rads) in CA IMO as easy as I do in SU. No Plugins, Just the Push Pull tool. Takes a couple minutes. Not only that, (not that I've tried) I don't think you can change direction from for example, an A elbow to a B elbow in one shot.

You can accomplish what you need from within

Chief using 3D molding polylines and creating

your own molding cross sections for different

downspout styles. Here are some examples

from way back in X6 & X7.

You will want to look under "clerestory".

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00955/creating-a-clerestory-style-roof.html

A 2D image of a vanity would probably be a tough

sell in a 3D view (given placement of the image and

camera angles, etc.), but I often incorporate 2D pics

into 3D views.

Similar to what Graham's doing in his example, in

this image the leaded, beveled and frosted glass in

the front door is a photo of the actual front door glass

and the young lady is also a 2D image.

In the spirit of Shelter-in-place and Social Distancing

I thought I would share where I have been holing up.

It may not look too impressive, but it has a surprising

amount of amenities.  

Looks like a delivery truck tie-down issue. 

Well I say let's get them back again, dadgummit. 

On a similar note how long have we been

able to rescind / revoke / reverse / remove,

dare I say undo reputation points we have

previously given out?

Not sure I care for this feature. I'm more of 

"a card laid is a card played" type of guy.

8 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Hi Alan , maybe just a bad Pic and I didn't download the Symbol but it looks like the part of the toilet bowl under the Flush valve is corrupt /broken to me?

 

M.

 

For now the workaround is to be sure to be wearing galoshes. 

Hey Eric. Thanks for taking a look at this.

I couldn't get the viewer to work. When I

drag in a calibz file nothing happens.

I don't think this approach (or Glenn's

which I also tried) is going to accomplish 

what I need because I don't get an image

of the item itself. I want to see a preview

like what is displayed in the Library Browser.

So, over time I have accumulated a sizable

folder of calibz files that I mainly downloaded 

here on the forum. I never actually imported

them into my User Catalog because that's 

already bloated. How the heck can I preview

these files to determine if I want to import

them or not? As you can see from the image

there is no preview available in the Import

Library Data DBX.  

10 hours ago, dshall said:

....Baraca the Black Rhino and I became friends....

 

Dude! Are we supposed to believe that 

those 2 strands (of what is that, twine)

are going to stop a charging rhino? Yikes!

I went ahead and opened your plan in X11

and opened camera #2. Unfortunately there

are some missing textures but I went ahead

and ran a 5 pass ray trace without touching

any of the settings.

I then opened the X11 plan in X12 and ran

a second ray trace. As you can see, for me,

the images are essentially the same and the

levels of light seem the same.

7 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

...The moral of this story is to avoid PDFs in the Layout.  Use JPGs whenever possible.

Just curious Joe, would converting your PDF's to PNG files yield better print quality?

15 hours ago, Rpadge said:

why would they only be available for a limited time?

When you think about it, everything is only available for a limited time. 

3 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

Thanks for the Heads up as I think I missed them in 2018 and 2019. 

 

M.

Hey Mick, it looks like you can download the ones you missed if you really want them.