Creating 3D Software boxes.

**stratocast** · 04 November 2006, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by WolfMoonHP

I must be missing something in this...
When Gary Priester said you "could create a frame," I looked up frames in the Xtreme help files, and all I found was information about animation.

Is there another kind of frame that I'm not getting, or is this an animation function.

I'm easily confused...

Originally Posted by WolfMoonHP

OK, Ankhor...

Where is your tutorial?

Great-looking box, by the way...

Here's my take on Gary's "frame" technique. Mind you, he probably has a far better way of doing it

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**jclements** · 04 November 2006, 03:41 PM

SketchUp Free with Free Renderer being developed which automatically does reflection.

**Big Frank** · 04 November 2006, 05:57 PM

Surely it is so much more satisfying to create your own reflections (or for that matter other design features) than relying on plug-ins or third-party apps to do it for you?

(unless, of course, you're into producing these images production-line where speed is of the essence)

**jclements** · 05 November 2006, 12:29 AM

You got a point.

We better not use Xara's dropshadows either ..... afterall they are plugins too ... back to using blends of transparencies. :-}

**Intbel** · 05 November 2006, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by jclements

You got a point.

We better not use Xara's dropshadows either ..... afterall they are plugins too ... back to using blends of transparencies. :-}

Yup - why not?
You have far more control that way ...

**stratocast** · 05 November 2006, 10:14 AM

{Heavy, but friendly, sarcasm follows}

Gentlemen, I quite agree. Plugins? Reflections? Drop shadows? Third-party applications? The world's gone mad! "Good grief, Carruthers, we didn't fight two world wars for this, did we?"

Back in my day, life was tough! We used to get up half an hour before we went to bed and because we couldn't afford a chimney, we used to have to carry the smoke outside in buckets......etc. etc.

**Intbel** · 05 November 2006, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by stratocast

{Heavy, but friendly, sarcasm follows}

Gentlemen, I quite agree. Plugins? Reflections? Drop shadows? Third-party applications? The world's gone mad! "Good grief, Carruthers, we didn't fight two world wars for this, did we?"

Back in my day, life was tough! We used to get up half an hour before we went to bed and because we couldn't afford a chimney, we used to have to carry the smoke outside in buckets......etc. etc.

You had beds and buckets and you think you had it tough?
We used to have to sleep standing up 25 to a room and the closest we ever got to a bucket was when the water wallah delivered our water once every two weeks.