topic Re: Materials - changing aspects of in Modeling

Materials - changing aspects of

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:53:14 GMT

I want to show hardi cedar shake walls on the ground floor and 4" siding on the upper floor, with some mix and match of corresponding walls for balconies, etc. In the materials settings, I have lowered the aspect ratio's but nothing happens in the 3d picture, they are still showing huge shakes and 1'6 siding planks,

how do I change this setting so that my building has a bit of a delicate look?

Re: Materials - changing aspects of

Thomas Holm — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:59:54 GMT

How do you create your 3D picture?

Re: Materials - changing aspects of

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:04:35 GMT

this is a gdl 3d model; if I use the Internal Engiine, I get this.

Re: Materials - changing aspects of

Thomas Holm — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:10:22 GMT

Go back to your material settings, open the lightworks pane and click "Match with Internal Engine". If that doesn't help you'll have to tweak Lightworks' own material settings. Go get Dwight's book!

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Anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:17:46 GMT

great suggestion, I set them to match internal engine....no change here, now am going to read parts of Dwight's book (maybe he will PM me here!) and attempt the delicate look I want. Can't find it in Dwight's book, perhaps you know the page to look on...I seem to be missing something, I am looking at page 102, but that seems to move the camera in and out of the picture in order to change the stucco smoothness/roughness setting...is there another place to look? You spoke as if you know how, are you willing to share?

thank you

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Dwight — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:41:12 GMT

We worked this out on the phone since Beverly is one of my chums.
Somehow her library images got upscaled.... a 6x8"" image turned into a 6x8' image. Boogles.

Dwight called with a solution

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:06:00 GMT

Since my last post, Dwight Atkinson called me to offer a solution. He mentioned to me that the size of my textures were totally out of wack and that was why I was showing such big shakes and siding. All I needed was a little help, thank you Dwight.

Here is the next rendition in gdl mode.

Dwight also offered an alternate to my garage roof which I have implemented.

I look forward to his next major offering and book tour if something like that is announced here; remembering that he presented his Lightworks seminar in my classroom with 12 attending.

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so....THANK YOU DWIGHT FOR BEING THE GURU THAT YOU ARE!!!!![/size]