Re: Apartment project with lighting by invisible hemispheres. I continue advertisinghi. I got a Chalet-style house. The task is to make a zoning for two girls. There was already an established design on the attic floor, a lot of stone and wood, it was necessary to leave all this and not do construction. People live there all the time. There are two interesting solutions in this project for me.
1. I applied dear Keet's invisible box method to create an uneven upper edge of the masonry. To do this, I took a photo of the masonry, cleaned unnecessary stones from above along an uneven line, and cut vertical fragments. Saved all the pieces in PNG format.
I prepared simple white walls and put a thin box 2cm thick and 110-130cm high on each side, according to the relief appearance of the existing cladding. It's about the same. This thickness of the box mimics the thickness of the stone in the cladding, +-. Made all sides except the front invisible. It turned out to be very similar to the real cladding, with the thickness of the material. But there is a drawback, after all, a thin dark border appears along the upper edge of the invisible box, it is visible against the white background of the wall. But you can ignore this)), it is convenient to make the lining with a thick box. There is an option to reduce the thickness to zero. but then it is inconvenient to glue such a box to the walls on the wall.
2. I was convinced again that the best way to make luminous shades is to assign a transparency factor of 0.5 to the sphere in the MTL file and assign a white texture after re-exporting. Place a small 50% light bulb inside the sphere in the center. The lampshade will light up brightly and over the entire visible surface. And a bonus - it will illuminate everything around, give shadows from objects, give bright spots on the walls and ceiling nearby. Very natural effect.
