Striking out on all tasks today.

[basementcalling]

How the hell do you get photos the right size to use as interior detail through an open door and have the angle not look like the 4th dimension or the scale be whacked?

Had decent luck with this loading dock texture of the CG website, but nothing else wants to work the way I think it should, so I am asking the group how YOU do it.

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Nothing else is close, not even a cropped rooftop from Google Earth.

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Gonna go take up gardening.

[tom mann]

Well you would need a graphic design program that would allow you to see image size and dpi.  Then, you could print out an image (say, of a door) at the right size for N, since you would have complete control over the printed dimensions.

The problem lies in trying to fool the viewer that a 2D printed image is a 3D scene. Check the Clever Models website or Lance Mindheim's website to see various tricks that can be done to printed paper.

[railnerd]

The "grain" of your texture is going the wrong way.  You want the lines going parallel to the ground.  The horizontal lines would be from wooden forms used to pour cement "back in the day".

-Dave

[basementcalling]

The "grain" of your texture is going the wrong way.  You want the lines going parallel to the ground.  The horizontal lines would be from wooden forms used to pour cement "back in the day".

-Dave

According to the photo description the streaks were dirt though I guess it probably would lay down with any grain from the forms.  One thing else I noticed is that the photo concrete makes my spray bombed building foundation outside look too plain and dark.

Thanks, Tomm. I had already searched Lances site and went looking for an article of his on using photos glued to styrene for roofs. My problem might also be thatmy room is 10 x 12 inches. Probably going to take more than 1 image. The loading bay roof is 1 5/8 x 12 5/16. An image long enough to be of use will waste a tremendous amount of texture.

I'm trying to get different looks to simulate a building  with parts of various ages and styles of construction.

Also, anyone know a good thinner for Walthers Goo? Will Bestine work seeing it really is rubber cement thinner? Nevermind, the tube says Acetone.

[peteski]

See, you aren't striking on all the tasks!  You figured what to use as a solvent for Goo!  All by yourself! 

[basementcalling]

See, you aren't striking on all the tasks!  You figured what to use as a solvent for Goo!  All by yourself! 

You say the sweetest things, Peteski.   


Goo is a synonym for mess. Just saying. And no Acetone in the building.

[peteski]

Can't find any?  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone : Acetone is produced and disposed of in the human body through normal metabolic processes. It is normally present in blood and urine. People with diabetes produce it in larger amounts. 

[sd45elect2000]

So you gotta put a tapper on a diabetic ??