Rich_Winsor

I believe @lbuttery has worked on this kind of project.

He might have a lead for you.

Looks good to me Glenn. I don't know 

about the others but I'll give ya a +1 for

the effort.

What really caught my eye however was

the "close but no banana" reference. Is

that a Southern Hemisphere thing? Maybe

with smoking so out of favor the trusty old

"close but no cigar" in no longer acceptable.

If you don't want to roll your own (so to speak)

Chief has some distressed and rustic materials

available in their Bonus Catalogs. You might 

have a play with them and see if you can find

something useful there.

17 hours ago, Electromen said:

New major features not supported on my Mac Pro and new MacBook Pro are good reasons to not renew SSA.

Or maybe a good reason to upgrade to a Windows rig.....

OK OK, just joking, lord knows you Apple guys can be touchy.   

Seems like a lot of work for a God awful effect.

If it's for a faithful representation of the existing

condition, yeah, spatter it with MR's. If it's for

anything else, ditch the effect. JMHO

Like this?

I may have misunderstood the question. 

Very impressive. Did you model that door in

Chief as well? Looks like you are definitely

in good hands as far as the fabrication goes. 

The Live Oak Estates are really our inside

joke. They are actually a pair of 480 sq ft

one bedroom, one bathroom rental units

that we are now passing off as an exclusive

gated community. 

Nice Job JB. At 20' I'm assuming that gate

is going to be a slider. Will you need to put

a horizontal bar near the top for the rollers

to ride on? It can detract from the intended

design.

While no where near as ornate, I too designed

a 12' x 7' entry gate for the duplex on our property.

It turned out pretty nice. Hope you have a good

metal guy to bring it to life. 

3 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

Nope.

??? That's the tire symbol you made. 

BTW, that EPDM rubber material ray traces 

very nicely. 

On 10/3/2020 at 2:06 AM, Alaskan_Son said:

 

Maybe not super realistic and didn't take the time to detail lettering and such,, but here's a decent tire modeled completely in Chief...

Tire.calibz

Perhaps I should have chosen my words more precisely. 

Would "one can get a surprisingly believable old tire that

mere mortals could never model in Chief" have been more

appropriate?  That's a damn fine tire Michael but I will

still maintain that for my particular situation my cheesy 2D

image works better. 

If I needed to model the tire in 3D I guess I should model

the dragonfly in 3D as well. Does that tire look familiar? 

8 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

 

One night free stay at the Evening Star of course !  

6 hours ago, Ridge_Runner said:

That figures! I bet there isn't even room service! 

What the heck Mike. That free cup of Joe in the

morning doesn't do it for you? Maybe you need

a good soak in the indoor heated pool. 

So here is the original cropped image I purloined

off the internet to use for an old tire. I didn't really

notice the little guy on the left side of the tire until

I was editing the image. 

Using PSP I reversed the image to match the

sun direction in my camera view, edited out the

web site watermarks and changed the water

surface to a transparent background.

Then I changed the color to match the terrain.

Convert the .PNG file to a Chief image and sink it into

the terrain a couple of inches and you get a surprisingly

believable old tire that you could never model in Chief.

9 hours ago, robdyck said:

The cat on the chair is a nice touch! I'll be showing my daughter that one!

9 hours ago, ericepv said:

I always like to 'dress the scene'.

I too like to 'dress the scene' with a combination

of both 2D images and 3D objects. Here is a 100%

Chief image I have been playing with recently. All

of the items in the 'debris field' were created in

this manner. In this case the main point of adding

the debris was to disguise the transition between

the terrain and the backdrop. 

BTW, bonus points are available if you can spot

the dragonfly in the scene.

What are the odds? It's the +1420 Club. 

14 hours ago, ericepv said:

Many thanks, that's what I'm looking for. Do you have any others?

Sheepishly admitting that I never even opened the file.

Check with @Greg_NY61. He supplied the file.

BTW, how is it that dogs can look sheepish? 

18 hours ago, Greg_NY61 said:

Here you go Rich :-)

Orthodox Male.calibz

Thanks Greg.  Let's see if @ericepv can use this. 

Personally I'd rather see models of Orthodox Jewish Men.

What is the end game (exit strategy) for this charade? How

do I opt out? 

Armageddon it. Now we know how the dinosaur's felt.

Thursday the sky was so dark that by 3:30 in the afternoon

all the outside lights that are on photo cells came on.

When I was just getting started with Chief

I was struggling with trying to create a

swaybacked roof. Bill Emery helped me

to accomplish it using Polyline Subtraction.

Along the way I too encountered some

unusual results.

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.