Moving right along in our series, we’ll start to build the windows that we’ve previously taken a look at. In this video, we’ll be taking a look at the most complicated windows, the french doors. Because these need to physically move, we’ll need to model them accordingly.
Today we’ll look at a simple method for creating a relatively convincing gunmetal material, complete with semi-worn edges.
Our good friend Andre asked how to map transparent graphics onto a glass object, so we thought we’d do a quick demo. This is an intermediate/advanced tutorial, beginners beware!
Creating the muntins in a window is really easy once you know a few tricks! To make life easier for us, we’ll be installing one of my all-time favorite Python scripts from a modo-master and superuser named seneca, and assigning it a keyboard shortcut (i.e. ‘input mapping’ in modo parlance).
We’ve been doing a little ArchViz in modo lately, and this week we’ll continue our interior project by adding some thickness to the floor, and creating a few more places to put doors and windows. Use those statistics to your advantage when modeling, they’re invaluable for mesh cleanup!
Greetings cadjunkies! A little archi-viz for you this week, kicking off a series on the same. Build a dimensionally-correct room, and throw in some dimensionally-correct windows. Should be fun!
Greetings from Boston! I’m here at the SW 2012 press release, gettin’ inspired, connected, and all that jazz. The production pipeline is officially back on line, baby! We’ve got new SolidWorks, modo, and Rhino vids on the way in the next week or two, but while I was doing some prep work for the upcoming SolidWorks series I decided to record a bit of Sketchbook Designer along the way. Have fun, more soon!
See ya’ on the flip side, suckers! :)
“cicada” is one of my favorite words, mostly because of the way it is spelled.
If at first you don’t succeed, start over. Often I find it’s easier to re-build a model from scratch than to try to repair or modify an existing model. It can be frustrating, but often times the rebuild will be faster, more efficient, and better quality than the first time around. Be brave!
Now that we’ve imported CAD data, we’ll dig a little deeper into the power of the Shader Tree.
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