Yes I will come. I love 3D even I am not experienced. I used Google Sketchup but it is more for architectures. I love making Landscapes only. I just got a tutorial on Bryce 6, I hope it can help for the Bryce 7 edition. After that, I will search more tutorials here.

Making some "Supernatural" renders, are we?

Yeah, that car would be sweet to have a digital copy of. I haven't seen one yet, but there is a freebie "muscle" car you could probably get away with using that might suffice as a substitute over at:

http://www.colacola.se/expo_musclecar.htm

The boys haven't always driven the Impala, and sometimes they just borrow the nearest badass vehicle they can get their bloody mitts on.

You can always check TurboSquid for both items. You might find them there, but they might not be monetarily friendly.

Some good firearms that you could alter (saw your own) can be found over at:

www.ontarget3d.com (Seems to be having issues as of now)

Try this link: http://www.ontarget3d.com/site/Category/56-free-stuff.aspx

Here's the one I would modify (make saw-off version): http://www.ontarget3d.com/site/Products/1028-coach-gun-for-poser.aspx

Or, you can always do a conversion of one of the ones found at the SketchUp Warehouse like this one:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=73659c1860dfaf648ae8c3efb265806

Good hunting...

ReDave said:

Theshapeee: per i vestiti bisogna prima modellarli (ci sono tanti programmi gratuiti in giro, e quando dico gratuiti intendo non a sbafo) tipo Blender, trueSpace, Hexagon, Wings3d, SketchUp base, eccetera. Poi serve un UVmap (una descrizione di come legare una texture alle varie facce che compongono il vestito), questo si può fare nei modellatori di solito ma anche in un altro programma gratuito di nome UVmapper (solo la versione Classic è gratuita). Poi serve una texture, questa la fai nel tuo programma 2D tipo Gimp, paint.Net ecc.
Infine serve un rig, che si fa nel programma in cui intendi animare. Poser ha il suo metodo, DAZ Studio il proprio, Messiah il proprio, ecc
I programmi sono gratuiti perché i pirati gli han fatto girare le balle, ;-) almeno in una certa proporzione di casi. Per i programmi più maturi, tipo trueSpace erano a pagamento ma sono stati ricomprati da giganti (in questo caso Microsoft) che hanno deciso che i guadagni erano talmente minuscoli rispetto al core business da non valerne la pena.
Imparare a modellare non è molto difficile, ma farlo bene è un altro paio di maniche. Ricorda che quelli che vendono qui, di solito ci lavorano da anni. Sono pochi i mestieri in cui uno sbarca e fà tutto come i professionisti dopo pochi giorni.

Non sono convinto di diventare un professionista in pochi giorni, lo dicevo così tanto per scherzare. Cioè visto che la gente se li scarica li hanno resi gratuiti? O___o" Comunque grazie! ;]

Theshapeee: per i vestiti bisogna prima modellarli (ci sono tanti programmi gratuiti in giro, e quando dico gratuiti intendo non a sbafo) tipo Blender, trueSpace, Hexagon, Wings3d, SketchUp base, eccetera. Poi serve un UVmap (una descrizione di come legare una texture alle varie facce che compongono il vestito), questo si può fare nei modellatori di solito ma anche in un altro programma gratuito di nome UVmapper (solo la versione Classic è gratuita). Poi serve una texture, questa la fai nel tuo programma 2D tipo Gimp, paint.Net ecc.
Infine serve un rig, che si fa nel programma in cui intendi animare. Poser ha il suo metodo, DAZ Studio il proprio, Messiah il proprio, ecc
I programmi sono gratuiti perché i pirati gli han fatto girare le balle, ;-) almeno in una certa proporzione di casi. Per i programmi più maturi, tipo trueSpace erano a pagamento ma sono stati ricomprati da giganti (in questo caso Microsoft) che hanno deciso che i guadagni erano talmente minuscoli rispetto al core business da non valerne la pena.
Imparare a modellare non è molto difficile, ma farlo bene è un altro paio di maniche. Ricorda che quelli che vendono qui, di solito ci lavorano da anni. Sono pochi i mestieri in cui uno sbarca e fà tutto come i professionisti dopo pochi giorni.

Mattymanx, I've just updated to 4.5pro latest build. FBX plugin is now working with exporting to Lumion as per prixat's pic. Eyelash problem indicates potential hair transparency problem.

I'm giving up on exporting Daz to WYSIWYG render applications at the moment. If someone makes a WYSIWYG lighting stage plugin for 3delight that will be so awesome. Meanwhile I will attempt to do my final scenes in DAZ with 3delight. Contemplating spending on a GTX card. My quodro1800 is showing its age I think.

Mjc11016 thanks for the Obj tips. I anticipate issues with importing Sketchup OBJs and COLLADAs and materials/textures into Daz. Just installed the Autodesk FBX convertor hopefully that will resolve that problem.

Next is figuring out UVmapping issue between DAZ and Zbrush...

Thanks again for all your help!

TheCastellan said:

Any freebie TNG or TMP era bridges?

First page of this thread, check it out..it has a few.

And with a bit of converting with sketchup. The sketchup warehouse has a lot of sets that may be utilized. It's just a mater of colouring the sets to suit your needs.

-Paul

mermaid010 said:

@ Dave – excellent work, do you do all your modeling in Bryce?

Thanks for the links. :)

I'm probably leaning towards something like a London Underground Tube train.
Here's one I found on Google 3D Warehouse that I may be able to import some how and do "something" with:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=91d55d8f82749dd06aa3bf023a2b42a5

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music2u4u said:

betsy662 said:

What? I didn't do a perfect render? Whats the matter with you? Don't you understand that in the perfect world the roads aren't perfect? LOL

Maybe you would like this one better, the tires are touching the ground at all!

Sue is back in her Happy Place!

You mentioned that garage a few days ago...where do you get it? I need it...lol. I am building one in Sketchup, but it will house mainly the old cars.

:-)

That is the Tuning garage by 3DC, its available at Rendo.

betsy662 said:

What? I didn't do a perfect render? Whats the matter with you? Don't you understand that in the perfect world the roads aren't perfect? LOL

Maybe you would like this one better, the tires are touching the ground at all!

Sue is back in her Happy Place!

You mentioned that garage a few days ago...where do you get it? I need it...lol. I am building one in Sketchup, but it will house mainly the old cars.

:-)

vivayo said:

Hi guys,

Long time lurker of the thread, I took the plunge and I have began to convert cars either from Sketchup or GTA models using Blender and having much fun ! However, I am quite newbie and I have a question for you: When you import the .obj into DS, it asks you for a scale. Which one do you use ? The Poser one or something elese ?

I always import in Silo scale because it is much smaller and most all vehicles will import huge! Then I take it down to about 25% of that scale, center it by importing a VickyRR or M4 and that will find you the exact center, tweek the scale to fit her size. Then delete her, and re-export the vehicle in Poser scale to a new file, be sure you check the "include textures" box and you have a perfect sized and centered model. There will be a maps folder inside your new file folder, keep it there, it holds all the textures and the path to it is kept in a .mtl file that exports with the .obj file. Keep it also.

:-)

vivayo said:

Hi guys,

Long time lurker of the thread, I took the plunge and I have began to convert cars either from Sketchup or GTA models using Blender and having much fun ! However, I am quite newbie and I have a question for you: When you import the .obj into DS, it asks you for a scale. Which one do you use ? The Poser one or something elese ?

Okay, your importing into DS4.5 I'm assuming, when doing the gta cars, those will always import at the same scale, just use a scale percentage of 5000, that will still be small, but you can rescale for the DAZ figures to around 215 percent once you have the car imported, the sketchup cars are all different, so will come in at different sizes, as will anything you've converted over from a lwo or 3ds file using Blender, I still import at 5000%, however, if its so large, then you might want to reimport it and lower the 5000 to 1000 and so on and so forth until you get it load so you can see it.

vivayo said:

Hi guys,

Long time lurker of the thread, I took the plunge and I have began to convert cars either from Sketchup or GTA models using Blender and having much fun ! However, I am quite newbie and I have a question for you: When you import the .obj into DS, it asks you for a scale. Which one do you use ? The Poser one or something elese ?

Sorry, I can't answer that one because I don't use DS but maybe someone else here will have an answer.

Hi guys,

Long time lurker of the thread, I took the plunge and I have began to convert cars either from Sketchup or GTA models using Blender and having much fun ! However, I am quite newbie and I have a question for you: When you import the .obj into DS, it asks you for a scale. Which one do you use ? The Poser one or something elese ?

Does anyone know what causes flat surfaces to have light area like the one in between the windows on the front left side of the corner house? If you look closely, you can see a dark area below the windows on the wall texture.

I modeled the houses in sketchup and exported them as obj's and then imported the obj into Carrara 8.1 pro as well as Carrara 8.5

Carrara is up to date.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Craig

Might anyone know of a method by which one could convert output from Daz Studio Pro ( Version 4.5.1.6 )
to Sketchup's .KMZ format ?

So far I have been attempting to do so by exporting to .DAE ( Collada ) format
from Daz, and importing the resulting files into Sketchup 8

Upon doing so, the objects imported are incomplete, with sections of the objects missing ?

I've experimented with the various export options in Daz
...for instance, trying the default and custom formats
and the various individual settings in the Collada Export options

With no success...

I am using the older "Google" version of Sketchup 8
rather than the newer "Trimble" branded one, and wondered if that might
be part of the problem ?

From what I have read online, the issue seems to be related to
the Daz Collada exporter itself, but as I am quite new to Daz
I have no idea if such statements are correct or not.

Thanks for any assistance or guidance members may be able to provide...

- Rick

FSMCDesigns said:

So are you still going to come here regularly or not at all? These goodbye threads really confuse me.

BTW not sure why you have to choose one or the other, i use both.....and carrara, Blender, Wings, 3DSMax, Sketchup, etc.

People do these goodbye threads to get closure. A lot of people spend a lot of time in the forums and make friends here.

I ended my membership with the PC for pretty much the same reasons as Davidh. I still hang out & contribute to the Star Trek thread.

One interesting note - since I spend less time in the forums, I am now learning more skills and am actually doing more renders.

So are you still going to come here regularly or not at all? These goodbye threads really confuse me.

BTW not sure why you have to choose one or the other, i use both.....and carrara, Blender, Wings, 3DSMax, Sketchup, etc.

well I got a huge whitehouse set and the oval office off Sketchup recently
office ok but Whitehouse is HUGE!
takes a while to load
I have an obj exporter, can open it in Carrara, never tried it in studio
try Sketucation or its link on the Trimble site for SKup8 rb plugins, I use 7