WIP - Starbucks & Lube Center

[David Kim]

After seeing Greg's work, great job Greg, I thought I would add my little project. My client is proposing to take over a fast food building and we would remodel the existing building, update it and provide a vanilla shell for Starbucks to be a tenant. The odd thing is my client's business is car washes and lube center so this is a rendering to see if Starbucks would accept this idea of a lube center adjacent to a Starbucks.

This is also my first rendering, can't understand why the jeep has grey windows...

[Les Therrien]

your image is not posted!! :?:

[David Kim]

Sorry, I hate it when you just submit something and forget the attachment!

[gregcashen]

i like the cars...someone else used this technique to take the focus off of the cars but still show the relationship to the buildings...very effective. i guess I am going to have to start making some ghost cars...;)

[Les Therrien]

Nice work.
Although I cannot see Starbucks going for it. I'd be surprised, but you never know.

[beegee]

i like the cars...someone else used this technique to take the focus off of the cars but still show the relationship to the buildings...very effective. i guess I am going to have to start making some ghost cars...;)

Greg, you inspired me to make a ghost car !

My first attempt is a '55 Porche ( to replace the red Carrera )

Still have problems with the windscreen though :cry:

http://www.zoogdesign.com/forums/phpBB2/download.php?id=1282

[Martin P]

Ghost trees etc (semi transparent) would be a nice option to have when rendering..... wishlist thing..

[David Kim]

Is there a better way of creating the "ghosting" other than changing the rendering material colors?

[gregcashen]

beegee, I think you made a mistake. the attachment above is a jpeg, not a rfa. try again, please ;)

[beegee]

I will post the rfa to share, .. but first I wanted to get that dang windscreen right. Its set as a glass render material, with a tint, but reads as a solid for some unknown....

[Scott Davis]

Kind of on the same topic.....a guy at work brought in one of those cheapy "home design" programs. It actually has some nice features. One of which is when in a shaded 3D view, there is a slider control which allows the user to control the transparancy of the model on the fly. Go from solid-shaded, to completely wire-frame see through, or any where in betweeen.

Would be cool for us to get a slider to control how much you could see through an object. Maybe its a setting in the object styles, to set the transparency as a percentage. For instance, you could set trees and cars to be 50% transparent (or is it 50% opaque??)

[beegee]

I think a slider is definately what I need/ can handle. 8)

The ghost car is posted (www.zoogdesign.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=15154&highlight=#15154), still with its opaque windscreen.
On further experimenting, it seems the original material assignments ( the car was a 3DS file ) stick, ... even after converting to dxf, assigning layers and converting to dwg.

[gregcashen]

I'll tell you what...if the Revit guys are not seriously looking at Punch! Architect3000 (http://www.punchsoftware.com/as3000.htm) for some features, they are missing some serious good ideas. There are automatic tools that do decks, landscaping, framing, etc. Tons of features...most of the implementation is probably ****, but the tools are amazing and make me drool and want to spend the $200 just to play with it.

[Scott Davis]

Thats the program I was talking about! Punch! If I were doing only tract residential.....

[hand471037]

I've done some 'ghost' trees. What I did was render two views, one with Trees on and the other with Trees off, then put them together in Gimp.

I would be nice to make this an auto-feature; for when I tried to do this via materials it didn't work with the trees. Too many surfaces, so when you made the trees transparent they still looked too solid...

[bclarch]

I haven't tried out the plant editor yet. Am I right in assuming, based on this discussion, that it is not possible to assign transparent rendering materials to plants?

[hand471037]

No, you can totally tell the plants to be whatever material you want! You just go in and set the leaves and trunk to use a different accurender material- that's it.

I tried this rendering with transparent plants, and while the trunks looked fine, the leaves were so many surfaces that they added up to make them non-transparent- i.e. they were transparent and the edge, but 'dense' in the core, and didn't have the look I wanted. So I just rendered the two seprate, and layered them later.