Finally got a chance to work on this. I used a slight variation on Michael's method. I used the inner curve of the fillet, created the surface then shelled it to the distance of the surface between the two fillets. I then scaled it up very slightly to make sure it intersected the surrounding geometry and booleaned it to the main housing.

Thanks for all the advice.

So now this is all one piece.



Here's a render:


and just for fun, I turned the main light off:

Cool mood of mad scientist laboratory! :)

Very nice model and render.


Excellent work.




- Steve

Hello Ash. Awsome. Just for my info, if its all one piece your software can recognize the original individual pieces to shade seperatley? I hadnt triedf to experiment but was under the impression that one peice, one object, one material overall.

If you have time,
Thanks.

Burr
Surprised at that question? Am I missreading?
One of the problems is limiting the number of parts that are in an object made in MoI. As they come from the file save can drive you crazy sorting them out to groups where the groups could share a similar shader.

If only MoI could export save the parts with the names given them in there!

Though Carrara can open nearly all of the MoI file types I tend to stick with 3dm or .obj,

Brian

Nice job there Tony!
You chose the right colours for the cabinet being a 50's object, I remember working as an apprentice on machinery that was probably from that era and they were those colours, dull beiges and greens.

Cheers

Nice glow effect on the elements!

- Michael

If I make a cube in MoI and import it into Carrara, I apply a shader to the cube. It doesnt allow me to apply a different shader or material to six different sides. If I make the cube. cut a hole, and insert another object to use as a window, when in Carrara I can apply the different shaders to each object.

Maybe it does, but I am not a renderer so I was asking to clear up how he did that with one solid. :)

Burr
Nice to know you have limits! (I don't have kneel anymore?)

Pretty basic stuff to render--select flat mapping and add shader to each side as required.

YELL OUT---Carrara is a peach to use--only to happy to help.

Brian

Thanks Brian. Been dying to get into rendering! Jealous of stuff like Danny and Grendels work!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2760092

Have a good look at this recent fun thread of mine--more associated with it on the DAZ forums also---LOTS of fun and learning!

Brian

>>If I make a cube in MoI and import it into Carrara, I apply a shader to the cube.
>>It doesnt allow me to apply a different shader or material to six different sides.

Hi Burr,

As Brian mentioned, you can make planer mapping for a cube. You also have the option of creating shader domains, which could also be used for a cube,but, shader domains can be used for any object with any number of sides and each side (or face) can be given a different color.

Thanks for all the replies people.

Hi, BurrMan
>>
2347.12 In reply to 2347.9
Hello Ash. Awsome. Just for my info, if its all one piece your software can recognize the original individual pieces to shade seperatley? I hadnt triedf to experiment but was under the impression that one peice, one object, one material overall.
>>

I used modo for this. No, it doesn't recognise the individual pieces, it's all one mesh. I select the polygons and assign them to a different polygon tag for use with a different material, in this case glass. Note that only the housing is all one piece. The rest of the parts in the renders are still seperate.

It's all just experimentation at the moment, trying to find the best way from MoI to modo. I'm learning modo's texture system as I go along too, and getting into a few pickles along the way :-)

Still, it seems to be coming along okay. I am also experimenting with reducing the polygon count (which was over 1.2 million) by the use of instances and re-meshing using the new beta.

I created the thing as mostly seperate parts, which to my mind, it is more realistic. But if it is all one mesh then you can use things like modo's weight maps to put dirt and grime into corners. If you don't do this then you have to paint them on, which means UV stuff - and that's a whole new skill I haven't got to grips with yet ;-)

I'll keep you posted with my progress

Hi Tony,

As you are modo user....
Is Modo can work like ( rhino + t-spline ) ? I mean to bidirectional read between polygon and nurbs ?

>> Thanks Brian. Been dying to get into rendering! Jealous of stuff like Danny and Grendels work!

BurrMan,

It's not so hard - but very time consuming. You tweak and render and tweak and render and....yes, more tweak and render. But I find it very satisfying to see the end result.

Carrara has a great procedural shading system, especially if you add some of the Digital Carvers plugins. That's why I don't know anything about UV mapping :-)

Hi Anis,

>> As you are modo user....
>> Is Modo can work like ( rhino + t-spline ) ? I mean to bidirectional read between polygon and nurbs ?


I'm not sure about this - there's no nurbs support in modo but there is a Rhino import/export plugin. I don't have Rhino so don't know how much this can do. Unfortunately it doesn't work with MoI..

Probably better to ask this on the Luxology forums. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Hi Tony,

> Probably better to ask this on the Luxology forums. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
Would you like ask about this there for us :) ?

Thank You !!!

Okay a quick search on the Lux forums comes up with the following:

"The importer can handle only mesh, camera and light. So, you need to translate nurbs in rhino to mesh, which can lead to huge amount of polygons, as well as patches with gaps (rhino is not really good in translating nurbs). Meshs from Nurbs are triangulated, so it get's hard to work on the geometries later in Modo."

So, it looks like the answer is no. One way mesh only.

Hello Tony,

So, the only "affordable" polygon & nurbs software is ( rhino + tspline ) :(

Thanks for your quick answer friend !!! :)

Yes, looks like it, though I'm not an expert. MoI is my first nurbs modeller.

Do any of the other apps have nurbs support? What about C4D?