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Comments SMC 20 - "Garden Tools"
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Comments SMC 20 - "Garden Tools" // Speed Model Challenge
Post by Changa // Sep 17, 2007, 6:55am
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Let's see who are closer to the Nature :D |
Post by Jack Edwards // Sep 17, 2007, 8:52am
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Ah cool one :) |
Post by classic12 // Sep 17, 2007, 10:47pm
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can any 1 enter? i wanna try my hand at modeling... does it matter how long it takes? as long as i put the time after? :banana: |
Post by Jack Edwards // Sep 18, 2007, 1:47am
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Yup :) You just post your finished image and wires in the contest thread. |
Post by classic12 // Sep 18, 2007, 1:52am
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Yup :) You just post your finished image and wires in the contest thread.
how do i do the wire frame image? ive got a WIP thred but i dunno how to make the wire frame image.. (wip thred " http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=4120 " )
WWOTW very nice goat! you beat me :( |
Post by Changa // Sep 18, 2007, 6:53am
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Nice and quick start! Keep moving! |
Post by jamesmc // Sep 18, 2007, 1:33pm
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I keep crashing with tS7.5 as it would open the scene then give me a crash report and then kept crashing each time I opened it up.
I reinstalled tS7.5 and was able to re-open the "garden" scene. Not sure what happened, but it crashed hard.
Too late to do any mods as I've already spent my nickel on this project. :) |
Post by classic12 // Sep 18, 2007, 9:49pm
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jamesmc very nice :) |
Post by Georg // Sep 18, 2007, 11:57pm
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Very nice subject. I have an idea and hope I can find some time in the weekend. Good entries already, lots of gardeners on this forum. Steinie should throw in a few snails to go with the goats...:D
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Post by classic12 // Sep 19, 2007, 2:12am
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a little bit off topic but can any 1 post a speed modeling challenge thred.. like start 1 i.e "make the best lamp post" or do you have to get permission?? |
Post by Nez // Sep 19, 2007, 2:30am
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Well, this is an established rolling process - the winner of the challenge sets the next topic, we all vote and a new winner is selected, etc. So etiquette-wise, no you can't suggest a new SMC challenge, although you could start something completely different. But as we already have the SMCs, Monthly modelling challenges, immersive environment competitions, etc it would be best not to for the moment! |
Post by classic12 // Sep 19, 2007, 3:09am
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Oh okay, i wasnt going to just start 1 :) i was just wondering how you did it, thanks for the into! |
Post by Georg // Sep 23, 2007, 8:45pm
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Nice entry, Blakeo. I was considering an electric mower, but went for the old fashioned hand tool myself.
georg |
Post by spyfrog // Sep 23, 2007, 10:32pm
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George, can you explain more about how you made the knives?
You write :"They follow the perimeter of a cylinder and curve one fifth of 360 degrees" - how do you accomplish this? |
Post by Georg // Sep 24, 2007, 6:11am
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:"They follow the perimeter of a cylinder and curve one fifth of 360 degrees"
Hi Spyfrog, I will try to explain what I meant, Upon rereading it does sound quite cryptic :D
When you pull the mower from the shed you don’t realize what a nice construction it is. From the net I learned that they can be found with 4,5, or 6 knives. When looking at it, it was clear that the knives curve under a certain degree depending on their number per 360 degrees. With four knives it was 90 degree, 72 for 5 knives etc. This way the knives cut a bit sideways and only a small portion of the knife touches the floor/grass at a given time when the reel with the knives is rolling.
To make a knife for a 5-knife reel I used the sweeptool to sweep a rectangular cube 12 times with a rotation of 6 degrees (makes 72 degrees, 5 x 72 is a full 360). (The sweeptool remembers the rotation, so you only have to adjust that once in the Object Info box). I used a cylinder with an appropriate size as a scaffold. By putting the axis of the cube outside the cube in the center of the cylinder the sweeped cubes will now follow the perimeter of the cylinder. That is how the knife was made.
I enclose a small illustration to show you how I used a cylinder as scaffold. You can see how the cubes remain perpendicular to the tangent at each point (in the drawing only seven sweeps were made for clarity). From above it looks like not much, but from aside it makes a nicely curved knife. Copying the knife 5 times with rotations in units of 72 degrees around the central axis of the cylinder and the basis of the reel was ready. I hope this makes it clear.
This is the nice thing with the SMC, you are forced to look at things and understand their construction and then try to make it in 3D, a real challenge!.
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Post by blakeo // Sep 24, 2007, 7:20am
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Very nice Georg. I like the traditional mower - reminds me of being a kid!
Nice method for making the blades too. I would have stuggled with the lathe tool if it was me (and probably got nowhere!) so thanks for sharing.
I went for the High Octane version :p as I knew I'd be challenging myself to even get close to finishing it in 2 hours...
B |
Post by spyfrog // Sep 24, 2007, 11:06am
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Thank you so much for your explanation Georg.
I would never have figured out that you could do the knive blades like that. |
Post by Changa // Sep 25, 2007, 11:47pm
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Hi guys! I'd like to remind to everebody, both novices and 3d model monsters, who still wants to amaze TS community in this SMC, that 2 days or 24 2hours periods remaining to create and promulgate your masterpieces.:D |
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