Paint’s Blog

tired spent a chunk of the day getting used to my camera and practicing HDR in adobe CS2., for latter..
i did model further got the beams nearly 100% roughed out .. and will go to school early tomorrow you cut spots for the elevators and model the stairs..

I’ll have progress images on beams and windows up latter tonight .

still thinking about what exactly ot show for presentation tomorrow .. i guess i’ll continue converting my quicklime samples to post online .

how to do image plane in Houdini

all i really care about is if it behaves in linux…

yeasterday i was called into my paying job as there was an emregancy, but it’s ok i have off till next friday so all is cool.

been searching this morning for how to do an image plane in Houdini like there is in maya , as i like the houdnin interface and modling style better . I started a modle in Maya for the building but was useing booleans for cut outs and was getting some odd reactions ..

I think cookie cutter would be more effecient that and i like the VEX shaders . they make more sense..

also for anyone else who didn’t see it already SCAD is on the sideFX website main page.

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update:

Had trouble getting the image map to behave in Houdini, so i’m modling in Maya. I will have progress images posted on main page tonight.

I was also called into work….I’m not going…

I have a decent amout of modling done and I have to figure out how to do nice strutts.. I think they’re standard( all the same shape) so if i get one modled nice I should be good.

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ok what i’ve done thus far today:

Happy , “I got blue prints” jig!

did work till 1:30 am on trying to decipher what goes where, by useing my images and footage.
did start converting my test footage to 320×240 QT streaming .MOV files ( there about 1.5 mg each ) but I’m going to wait till I get the last few done to upload them ; as I don’t want to eat all my server space and may have to host them elsewhere.

but i do have my schematics sheets that the girls at the Roundhouse were kind enough to print for me.. they also have CAD files of a lot of the floor plans.. and i seem to remember something about being able to use CAD files to extrude a 3-d in Houdini…. ideas….

any way.
if mot i have a layout with measurements and locations and i can work off of that.

also this morning I took a few more pictures from diffrent angles of the building .