How do I make a picture of something inside, such as a laborotory or warehouse? I've seen it done, and most say it was done in bryce. I've tried just making a big cube, that didn't work. Any ideas??? Thanking you in advance, Dooce

Use symmetric lattices to make your walls. Change the resolution to 510 and use a pretty small brush size and draw your walls out. Or make a grayscale picture in a paint program of what your wall plan would look like, gaussian blur it, then with a symmetric lattice, pick new, from picture. For windows and stuff, boolean the openings with cubes and rectangles. Then just texture it however you like.

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You can also use the cube. Adjust the scale to your wall size, then copy, paste and rotate 90, etc. until you get your room. Sometimes the alignment can be a bit tricky, but zooming in will help. Don't forget one additional copy for the roof. You can then do as Bones mentioned with the boolean. Regards, - Art -

I love to do interiors. Often I just build 2 (maybe 3) walls (I just use the rectangle and shape it the way I want it, duplicate it-rotate the dupes 90 degrees or whatever as stated above), a ceiling and floor and go from there--like a photo set. Add your doors, windows boolean method. If you want to shoot from various angles, then you will have to add the enclosing walls. Bone, I noted you using symmetrical lattices--any advantage to that? Diane B

The advantages I've found to using a greyscale with a sym lattice is that you can build windows, doors, pillars etc right into the greyscale. I then paint over the Greyscale in a paint program and paint .( painting the window frames etc ). Then add the color as a new 2d image and put it on the object top. This tends to save a lot of time and gives me a lot more controll. GG

GG--so you aren't using boolean method of windows, doors, etc.?--or are you making the holes (to call them plain and simple G) and the frames. I'd love to see an example from one of you--like the greyscale lattice and then maybe the wall. This may be a much better way for me (and others). Diane B

Hi Diane I've just finished a project for work using this method. In the GS the winsows are left black ( i add a pane of glass later ) The windowframes are a lighter or darker grey than the walls ( depending on wether you like them to be proud or in relief ). The only downside to this method is that a whole wall would be one object and you can't adjust anything ( windowframes, skirtingboard etc...) Seperatly for ambiance etc... If you could tell me how to post an image in this forum, I'd be happy to. GG

Oh, GG--THAT I can do G. Its really easy. Unless you're good in HTML (I'm not), then you need to start a new thread (post a new message). Then when you post you will see down at the bottom the area for images. Select where it says upload image, browse for your image on your own harddrive, make sure it is a .jpeg (most of us compress to about 20-30% for faster loading), then hit 'create message', it will upload your image to this server and there it is. Simple--you can also link to your web page, but I find that a pain to just upload an image. This way is EASY. Be sure to put in a subject too. Hope to see an image SOON smile. Now going off to wait for Gateway repairman who's due soon so I can get back to my own computer--I can't do diddly squat on this one of my husband's--its okay for browsing, but not loaded with my graphics apps, etc. BTW, I follow what you are doing in lattice. However, since I change my mind fairly often (and sometimes use the same walls/rooms over and over--just change material, windows, etc.) this may not work well for me. BUT--I'm going to try it. Diane

Lattices/structures are good for detailed wall structures. For simpler walls, another option is to use 2D faces and apply a picture texture/materials. They can be booleaned. I've used them both for indoor and outdoor walls. The Mill here consists of 'cube' beams, but all the walls, roof are 2D faces. The glass windows are 2D faces, booleaned within a cube/negative cube window frame. http://www.iaw.on.ca/~jspirko/swan_mill.htm The swans started out as greyscales on lattices, exported as OBJ files so I could use UVMapper to create texture maps. John Spirko