Hey fellow users. I'm currently working on this rendering. This box is supposed to be made from all stainless parts and no paint. Let me know your opinion if I pulled this one off or not. I'll start off by saying the ball bearing cage looks a little too green... anything else? Thanks for looking!
Ed, if you check this out, take a look at those bolts. ;) It would drive your contractor nuts. :D
Yep - random bolt patterns. Looks like they were torqued to spec!
The internal parts look great, except for the green tint as you noted.
The outer parts are hard to judge without knowing how they were machined.
For example, I would guess the bottom plate gets surfaced on a mill using a fly cutter. If so, it would be good to get a texture that shows the large diameter circular marks produced by the cutter.
For a brushed metal appearance, I have had good luck just adding a brushed normal map only (no texture map). I think it came with Keyshot, or maybe it came with the green Mustang :)
Ed
Very nice!
What are the yellow things at the top - nylon hole plugs?
And the bumpmap on the casing exterior - is that 'orange peel'?
Thanks for sharing....
Very nice use of textures,
Why is it green?
is that you environment?
OK, I'm convinced- the bolt heads look great torqued to spec, and not all lined up or "squared". Guess I'm just too old-school. Also, I'll never again use the cliche "back in the day", as if the 16th Century was all that great!
Now I'm fired up again, and will really (!) try to get out in the shop this weekend and machine up the faces, like fly-cut, mill marks, etc, photograph them and post them here. Tool marks is what this model, and many of our others, need.
Bill G
Thanks Ed for the tips! Also, these perfectly aligned bolts on my previous renderings are driving me nuts now.. I can't sleep or eat - I'm going to have to go back and redo everything! ;) Seriously though, it's the little details that make the difference, so thanks for pointing out the bolt heads/patterns. I still use materials that came with the green mustang out of habit. :P
Thanks, jhiker! Yes, they are hole plugs to keep water out on this particular unit. You are correct again, the cast area is using the orange peel bump. Everything but the housing is using either bar or plate.
Thanks, David! I had to rely more on textures with this one. I like to use a hint of green with some metals, I really do not like to use gray any of the time. So, I got a little carried away with the bearing cage. :-[
Thanks, Bill! Please post your textures - I will definitely use them. If it's not to much to ask can you make them pattern friendly too? ::)
Hey,Cholton-
QuoteI can't sleep or eat - I'm going to have to go back and redo everything!
I so agree, and some of mine have 1000's of them!
Here the "Lathe End Face" I use.
More later...
Bill G
Nice ....
Quote from: Speedster on September 22, 2010, 09:02:44 AM
I so agree, and some of mine have 1000's of them!
I feel for you Bill!
Thanks for the bump and texture. Keep them coming! :)
Forgot to mention that the bump was created in FilterForge. www.filterforge.com (http://www.filterforge.com)
Bill G
Thank you Bill. :)
Had a chance to work on this a little today. Since this box is used for washdown applications, I thought it'd be nice to show some water in the rendering. Do you guys think it's too much?? If not I may add a little more floating in the air? And maybe a touch on top the box and feet??
Now I understand why it is made from stainless.
I'd find a way to put some drops on top of the box and on top of the base plate. Because my first impression was that the box sprung a leak on the bottom :)
Ed
Cholton - how did you do that.... ;)
Water is a bit dark - you may need to increase your ray bounces ...
Jhiker - Just add water :D
Shivani
If you look at real drops of water they don't really cast shadows. With the shadows they look here more like molten metal resulting from a 100,000 RPM gearbox- hate it when that happens!
Bill G
@cholton Really like the water. I've had a go with it but only en masse, with a conrod emerging Excalibur-style.
Thanks guys for the comments/critiques! I'm still hesitant on using fluid because I don't want it to look like it sprung a leak or overheated causing molten metal :-\ I may give it another go though however if time permits adding water to more of the ground plane (so it's not just under the unit) and on the feet and top of the unit as Ed recommends.
jhiker - water was created with Blender's fluid simulator. Showing a low res fluid for a couple of reasons; wasn't sure if I was going to use fluid so I didn't want to spend much time generating it and the computer creating the simulation doesn't have enough RAM to pull off much of a larger resolution.
NormanHadley - thanks! Nice!
One manager liked the water and one didn't. So I'm making both. Here's the one without water...
... and I am sure there was a third manager that said "WTF are you doing rendering images?" ... ;-)