Frankly I get lost in the maze of inside-out CSG and everything.
It may look like simple boxes but putting it all together into CSG is
not what I'd call easy.  And this building is another such effort no doubt,
so good going so far Brendan.

Bob

"Brendan Hurley" <mbh### [at] sabernet> wrote in message
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| Dear Folks,
|
| Thanks for the replies.  It seems like forever since I started this
| project for the GIP last Fall.  The final touches are in place on my
| apartments and now I'm struggling thru placing them into the big scene
| file composed by Ray Benjamin.  That part should be done tonite or
| tomorrow.  The Group Project got off to a hot start but the energy has
| slowed as the months went by.  I hope the posting of a revised Group
| Image will get things going again.
|
| Bob Hughes wrote:
| >
| > Great place, needs roofing material though doesn't it?
|
| I say: yes, it does, but I am a bit weary just now.  Since this is a
| group project I've been hoping someone, or several someones, could
| contribute some of the parts missing or in need of improvements.
|
| > Judging by the edges on things you must have used a fairly adequate AA.
|
| Rendered at aa0.4 q9
|
| > The fine-lined mortar is a difficult thing to do, I know; but it's good here
| > in the still image, just hope you don't plan on animating it.  :-)
| >
| > Bob
|
| The brick texture is by Ib Rasmussen, one of the other contributors.  I
| did a bit of fine-tuning to make it work.  The big white "bricks" on the
| lower storeys are the same texture, lightened up and scale up.
|
| >Ken Tyler wrote:
| > I often wonder why we don't see more architectural images submitted here.
|
| Me, too!  Rendering square boxes with fancy trim is not so hard.  My
| guess is that many of us did buildings early on then moved on to other
| objects, scenes.  It seems to me from reading this news group for the
| last year that tracing runs in cycles: somebody posts a new image using
| some POV feature and everybody else posts variations for the next few
| months.  A few months back there was a cycle of #while...#end loop
| images.  And there is the perennial favorite: trees!  And recently the
| spat of POV logo/mascots.  Maybe buildings will make a comeback this
| summer!
|
| Now that my apartments are finished I want to get back to my Our_House
| project.  I saw a Home & Garden Channel special on Richard Neutra and
| the Modernist style architecture from the 40's and 50's.  I had images
| of such homes in mind when I started.  Now that the template objects for
| a building are complete and flexibly functional I want to model a real
| Modernist version of Our_House.
|
| Stay tuned for more in a few weeks...visit my web site for "construction
| in progress" snapshots.
|
|
|
| Blessings,
|          Brendan
|
|
|
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| Michael Brendan Hurley
| POV: http://www.geocities.com/mbrendanh/
| FAMILY: http://www.saber.net/~mbhcgc/
| mbh### [at] sabernet

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