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Subject: Diamond Shaped Metal Grid glass window, How to?

igohigh opened this issue on Jul 12, 2003 · 5 posts
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igohigh ( ) posted Sat, 12 July 2003 at 11:06 PM · edited Thu, 28 November 2024 at 10:21 AM

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Ship Capatain's Cabin;

I want to fill the square windows in with a Diamond shaped reinforced grid (like the green only thinner).
Originally I was thinking of just a simple flat and using a transmap but then I got to thinking (and boy did it hurt!) then I would only be able to use Transparency and not Reflection or Refraction as they will ignore the transmap and effect the steel grid as well.
So it looks like I will have to go ahead and bump up the poly count with a separate mesh for the grid but Im not exactly sure how to make it?
So far it is all done in Anim8or but I do have Ampi 4.15, TrueSpace 3, and Wings3d but not really sure how to use them yet.
Any suggestions, keeping the poly count as low as possible?

Oh, and one more question please:
If your eye gets poked out in this life, will it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?

cryptojoe ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 12:03 AM

Don't know about the modeling, I use Rhino.

About the eye; it would greatly depend upon if she took it with her and if you wind up in the same place as she does. Otherwise, may I sugest a prostetic?

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Moebius87 ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 12:54 AM

Hi there igohigh, Since you've asked this in here, I guess you're interested in a modeling solution. :o) I don't have access to the programs you've mentioned above, but here's how I'd go about it in LightWave 3D. Above is a screen cap of the mesh in Modeler and a quick render with some material settings I have saved. I took a segmented box, then I rotated it diagonally (45). I then took my stretch tool to make the diamonds more pointy looking. I deleted the excess 4-point polygons and converted these to 3-point polygons so that they would be more rectangular. I then used a series of bevels to inset the thickness of the metal frame and give this some depth. I exaggerated it here, cause usually the leading for this sort of glass is only about 12mm. The glass and the window frame are pretty straight forward elements. Hope this helped. :o) Cheers! M

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ElectricAardvark ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 12:56 AM

Wings3D: Grid> Select-Object Mode> Face Mode> Inset>Drag mouse to desired thickness of wire> With all inner holes and back faces still selected, assign 'hole' material> export to to your favorite flavour format. That's the easiest way. Unless you have Max. ~EA

igohigh ( ) posted Sun, 13 July 2003 at 5:11 PM

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Thanks ElectricAardvark! The Grid function of Wings3D did make it easy, and didn't add too much to the poly count. I think this may be about all (except floor and 2nd wall) for the general room. Now to start on fixtures and funiture.

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