topic Re: Victorian railings in Libraries & objects

Victorian railings

Alex Smith — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:50:24 GMT

Has anyone got a railing that resembles those on a victorian terrace?

Re: Victorian railings

Dwight — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:01:05 GMT

like this?

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Alex Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:42:29 GMT

Actually its more like this (see photo attached)

Re: Victorian railings

Dwight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:44:14 GMT

Oh. Invisible.

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Alex Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:46:21 GMT

cant seem to get the photo to attach

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Dwight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:48:56 GMT

Mime it then.

Re: Victorian railings

Dwight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:53:20 GMT

There are two ways to make ornate ironwork.

Use the complex profile to describe a railing module. Use it in a wall, but perpendicular to the railing direction - this gets the depth of the ironwork.
Multiply the modules along.

The other way is when you have complex smithing - hammered leaves and whatnot. Use a masked picture to knockout the background for transparency in the rendering.

Re: Victorian railings

Alex Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:54:34 GMT

can u see this?

Re: Victorian railings

Dwight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:00:47 GMT

Yes.

I doubt if there's a pre-made object this detailed.

It is easy to model this with the complex profile method if you have the orthographic drawing, however, there will be many polygons. How much do you need to make?

You could do it with two depths.

Re: Victorian railings

Alex Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:13:43 GMT

Thanks Dwight - It seems a bit too hard

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Dwight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:18:23 GMT

If you had a high-resolution image, all you would do is trace it with a fill. How hard is that?

Re: Victorian railings

Alex Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:20:11 GMT

True - I will give it a try - thanks

Re: Victorian railings

Dwight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:23:33 GMT

You will be proud to master it since many would give up at the challenge of this intermediate level task.