sjb thanks so much for your design! get where you are coming from, the pantry model didn't really fit quite right and I see the lines of the cabs above the hob, I'm going to remodel and try something different.

I have to say I only put the door inward because that's how it is right now all my ...

You're right about the door its the wrong way around, I only noticed that later, I'm remodelling the upper cabs and I'll post a new version later

johntc

I couldn't access your Google drive file btw sjb007 but thanks

johntc

Some good points, I'll have a think about the cabinet alignment. I agree the upper cabinets wouldn't be full depth but I like having them all align into a single vertical plane, the upper cabs just don't fill all the way to the wall. Take the point about handles but they are only there to add ...

An updated render, I revised my barstool model added some extra lighting under the Kitchen island and tweaked the lighting of the neon sign model as well as refining the general room lighting.



Thanks

johntc

Thanks I shall have a play with these !

johntc

Thanks for that, I have made my own light panel sized to the room and facing down at a low light level 3 or percent in the render but hadn't considered using an up light against the ceiling as well!

I've seen the inward light sphere mentioned a couple of times but been unable to find a working ...

Hope this works better



and yes, I've done all the modelling in blender and SH3 for the wall/room layout lighting and rendering

johntc

Hmmmmmmm, should be a link to Flickr but its only pointing at the thumbnail image. I'll upload it elsewhere and try again

Hi All.

As a learning experience to tech myself more about SH3 and Blender I decided to model my new kitchen at home after we have renovations done next year. As a challenge I made all the furniture and lighting from scratch to better understand some of the different methods for building texturing ...