"EagleSun" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> "Sven Littkowski" <sve### [at] jamaica-focuscom> wrote:
>> > Looks very nice! Do you have more of these decks to publish? Wanna see 
>> > more
>> > of them...
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > Sven
>>
>> Only one deck (I only own one house...)  But I can always run more 
>> renders
>> of the same deck.  Perhaps this weekend if I get time.  Imay even post
>> actual photosof the deck when it is constructed.
>>
>> -tgq
>
> Wow!
>
> Do you use AutoCAD for this?  I've been wanting to render my house in
> POV-Ray, but just not sure how to build the model.... my house looks too
> complicated to begin modelling it.  I'm scared I'll have to design each
> 2x4, brick, panels by hand!  (Forget each blade of grass!)
>
>
>

Yes, modelled in AutoCAD.  It's really simple if you know AutoCAD (certainly 
much easier than POV, especially since I already did the design drawings in 
CAD).  Then it's just a matter of exporting (usually to 3ds, then converting 
to POV using another prog).  Unless you really have a lot of time or can 
macro it, don't model bricks, siding, etc.  Just use image_maps (with normal 
maps if wanted), it's a lot easier.  As I said earlier, the siding and 
bricks on this render are from actual photos of my house.

-tgq

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