#need program
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Dear Dave, I am still using AutoCAD to make 3D drawings of objects. I
didn't have problems using AutoCAD. If I did, I would leave messages
in the ACAD forum. I got 3D Studio on the day before Thanksgiving.
Even after going through 3D Studio Tutorial Guide a few times, I
still have some problems using 3D Studio to make realistic materials,
renderings, and animations. I rendered a 3D drawing of a 1957
Cheverolet Belair convertible and it looked realistic. I wish I know
how to make curved windshields. 3D Studio can take a long time to
render some drawings and animations, especially if the drawings and
animations need bitmap files and/or if I use Automatic Reflection
Maps. How can I set up lights inside a drawing of a New York City
subway station so that it is not too bright or too dim? Subway
stations have tiled walls. How can I simulate tiled walls when I
don't have a camera or a scanner? I have PhotoFinish program. I
worked on the drawing of a kitchen and used SXP processes to assign
WOOD.SXP materials to cabinets, drawers, doors, chairs, and table,
MARBLE.SXP materials to counter, and CHECK.SXP materials to floor.
When I rendered the drawing, it looks realistic but it needs dishes,
pans, pots, flowers, etc. Does Autodesk has a forum or something on
Internet? Jeffrey.
PMJI, but for tiled surfaces you may be able to find a tiled bitmap on
the World Creating Toolkit CD-ROM (if you have a CD-ROM player).
There are lots of good bitmaps on it that were designed to be used as
texture maps as well as reflection and opacity maps in materials.
Otherwise, you could paint your own tile in a paint program and use
that.
You could even create a square in 3D Studio and play around with
smoothing group settings to get slightly rounded edges, then give it
an appropriate color, render it, and use it as a "tile" texture map.
Dear John, I have a CD-ROM drive. I will look at the bitmaps on the CD-ROM
disk. I tried rendering some of the drawings in the \GEOMETRY\SCENES directory
but some of them are too dim. Since files on CD-ROM disks are read-only, I
can't edit them unless I move them to my hard disk. I thought PhotoFinish would
be good for making materials because it has some drawing tools. I had a choice
between PhotoFinish and PaintBrush in an Electronic Boutique store and I chose
PhotoFinish because it can read and write *.TGA files and it can read and write
24-bit color bitmaps. Jeffrey.
I've checked out all the images on the CD-ROM and they seem fine. Perhaps you
could just turn up your monitor brightness while viewing them.
I think you'll be happy with some of the maps on the CD-ROM. I have used a few
of them quite successfully. Ralph Frantz uploaded files to this forum's
libraries with postage stamp sized samples of the maps on the CD-ROM to be used
as a guide to the contents. I don't know what they're called, but try and find
them as they will save you a lot of time finding "just the right one".
have fun,
John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
Dear John, It is Mommy's fault that I have a defective brain. I want
to create realistic materials, renderings, and animations in 3D
Studio but I can't do it. On the "Star Trek" movies, Mr. Spock puts
his hands on someone's head and transfer his mind from his brain to
someone's brain. If it can be done, I would like to do it with
someone who is experienced with AutoCAD and 3D Studio. I rendered
some of the drawings on the CD-ROM disk that have lamps and the
materials for some light bulbs have very light blue tint which I think
is not realistic. Regular light bulbs have very light yellow tint
and fluorescent light tubes are white. I worked on the drawing of the
subway station and I still can't get the lighting right and the
ceiling is dark gray instead of light gray. I put the omni lights
under the ceiling. My monitor's brightness isn't too dark. Jeffrey.
Jeffrey – sorry, I'm way behind you with 3D Studio so I can't answer ANY of
your questions… but it sounds like you are doing some pretty neat stuff! Is
the NY subway thing for some kind of project?
As to the Internet, nope; as far as Autodesk forums goes, these (ACAD, ASOFT
and ARETAIL) are them. I have no doubt, however, that you could find lots of
interested users via the Internet.
Dave
Dear Dave, I am trying to work on the drawing of the subway station but I can't
make it so realistic that people would think that I used a camera to take the
picture of the subway station, used a scanner to scan the picture into
PhotoFinish program, and display the picture on the computer screen. I have the
CD-ROM drive. I tried rendering some of the drawings in the \GEOMETRY\SCENES
directory but some of them are too dim. Since files on CD-ROM disks are
read-only, I can't edit them unless I move them to my hard disk. I thought
PhotoFinish would be good for making materials because it has some drawing
tools. I had a choice between PhotoFinish and PaintBrush in an Electronic
Boutique store and I chose PhotoFinish because it can read and write *.TGA
files and it can read and write 24-bit color bitmaps. Jeffrey.