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| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 8, 2022, 3:25:35 AM |
WIP furniture / lights library I have a few lights done and a bunch more on the to-do list. Some of them I downloaded for the Great Hall (http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,11280 ). Some are for a more conventional home. Anybody have suggestions for a faster workflow than alternating between modifying the properties file and re-opening Sweet Home to check the results? I also still need to figure out the best opacity settings for glass. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 9, 2022, 6:44:47 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library For the some reason the lights I just finished aren't rendering in Yafaray. Any ideas?  Here's the properties of the one that isn't working: name#4=Streetlamp3 category#4=Lights icon#4=/Streetlamp3.png model#4=/Streetlamp3/tall%20streetlamp%20with%20sphere.obj multiPartModel#4=true width#4=41.5 depth#4=42 height#4=305 movable#4=true doorOrWindow#4=false lightSourceX#4=20.75 lightSourceY#4=21 lightSourceZ#4=273.6 lightSourceColor#4=#47463c lightSourceDiameter#4=3 elevation#4=0 modelSize#4=10649044 And one of the ones that is: name#2=Ceiling globe category#2=Lights icon#2=/Ceiling globe.png model#2=/Ceiling globe/ceiling%20globe.obj multiPartModel#2=true width#2=30.48 depth#2=30.3276 height#2=19.9644 movable#2=true doorOrWindow#2=false lightSourceX#2=15.24 lightSourceY#2=15.1638 lightSourceZ#2=7 lightSourceColor#2=#666257 lightSourceDiameter#2=3 elevation#2=243.84 modelSize#2=277660 |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 9, 2022, 7:21:30 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library If I remove the texture on the street lamp's globe, the light shows. But the star lamp also has a texture at the same opacity and the light shows in it. |
| Posted by Mike53 at Jan 9, 2022, 4:53:31 PM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Could be that the globe on the street light has texture applied to both its inner and outer face, the others may have it on just 1 face |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 9, 2022, 11:30:13 PM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library No, the texture is only on the outside. I'm thinking the problem is the size of the light? I wish there was a way to see what size the light actually is. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 10, 2022, 12:07:38 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Definitely something with the texture. I tried it with the texture that was working and now it works. It appears Yafaray likes transparent textures and Sunflow doesn't care. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 10, 2022, 12:12:43 AM |
Re: WIP furniture / lights library The two yellow ones have a transparent png as the texture, one with it on both sides of the globe, one with it only on the outside. The white ones have no texture, again one with the color on both sides and one with the color on the outside. Having the color/texture on both sides or just one doesn't seem to make a difference. This is using a white light source in each of them (instead of making them a light). On all of the globes, the texture/color is at 70% opacity. Now to figure out how the Light Diameter property corresponds to size. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 10, 2022, 12:19:47 AM |
Re: WIP furniture / lights library Whether the texture/color is on one side or two sides doesn't affect the amount of light that passes through, but it does change the look. In order from left to right: two-sided no texture, one-sided no texture, two-sided with transparent png, one-sided with transparent png. The reason I'm trying to get a texture to work is to element that crystal ball effect (although the angle you're looking at it makes a big difference) |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 10, 2022, 1:19:33 AM |
Re: WIP furniture / lights library Success. Taking an image into Photoshop and making it 75% transparent works perfectly (the texture isn't the right size, but that's a different issue) |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 11, 2022, 5:48:19 AM |
Re: WIP furniture / lights library I'm working on doing comparisons of different light settings. Here's a test with just a color and no texture at varying opacities. Having no texture doesn't look very good at least with simple shapes. These are 70%, 80% and 90% opacity from left to right. name#1=Globe bl 70opa category#1=Lights icon#1=/Globe bl 70opa.png model#1=/Globe bl 70opa/globe-bl-70opa.obj multiPartModel#1=true width#1=61 depth#1=61 height#1=62 movable#1=true doorOrWindow#1=false lightSourceX#1=30.5 lightSourceY#1=30.5 lightSourceZ#1=31.5 lightSourceColor#1=#333333 lightSourceDiameter#1=40 elevation#1=0 modelSize#1=8727823 creator#1=Silvercat Next I'll compare light sizes with one of these lamps. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 11, 2022, 6:56:06 AM |
Re: WIP furniture / lights library Comparison using lights with no textures. The lights vary from 40 to 5 in diameter. I'm not seeing a difference.  I've added a texture. Still not seeing a difference. |
| Posted by VeroniQ at Jan 11, 2022, 8:53:24 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Hello Silvercat, Thank you and congratulation for your work! I like these street lamps and globes. Could you share them when you'll have finished? Thanks in advance. V |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 11, 2022, 10:51:01 PM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library That's the plan! I got them off of various free places - CGTrader, Sketchup Warehouse, and Archive3d - but of course it's a lot easier to use them after I've gotten them cleaned up and added lights. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 12, 2022, 2:23:05 AM |
Re: WIP furniture / lights library Another comparison - brightness as controlled by the color. I'm just going to give the first digit since all six are the same. From left to right the colors are F(white) D B 9 7 5 3 1. All of them have the default settings, so 50% light power, and the light is centered in the globe. I'll be testing some colors next, but having the desired brightness should make getting the correct color easier - pick the brightness then go right in the color picker to get the tint. Here are the four dimmest (7 5 3 1) at 100% light power.  |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 13, 2022, 3:19:02 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Here's the last of the comparison stuff - Colors!  All of these are the same lightness (99) but different colors. All I did was pick the brightness I wanted and then move right in saturation.    Here's what happens if you use the same color at different saturations.  This is, from right to left, 9c8800, 988b36, 99936e, 999999  You can see that until you get very saturated the color value is overpowered by the brightness. If you want to play with this yourself, I have a furniture library with four textured globes and four untextured globes. Also in the folder are .dae files of the globes. Google drive link |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 14, 2022, 2:12:19 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Some work in progress lights. I haven't added the light properties to these yet.    This last one has a bunch of material zones so people can customize it. |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 17, 2022, 10:09:08 PM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Some of the lights are done. The rest I need to figure out the color still.   |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 19, 2022, 5:11:15 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library The first batch of lights is done!   You can download the furniture library and some textures on my Google Drive . |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 19, 2022, 5:12:32 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library There's also a folder with a whole lot of translucent glass textures. |
| Posted by Puybaret at Jan 19, 2022, 9:56:41 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library Thanks for this nice collection! Could you give details about the license you agree to distribute it (Free Art License or CC-BY License or both or another license)? The best would to write it also in the PluginFurnitureCatalog.properties included in the SH3F file in a license property as in this example (id, name, description, version, license and provider properties are read and saved by the Furniture Library Editor when they exist). ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by silvercat17 at Jan 21, 2022, 12:56:46 AM |
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Re: WIP furniture / lights library None of them are things I made myself. A few are from the Sketchup warehouse, most are from Archive3d, and a couple are freebies off CGTrader. I just changed textures and added the light properties |
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