June 2014 Video Tutorial - Creating 3D Semi-Transparent Cubes in Xara

[wizard509]

I decided to apply the techniques to a glass bottle.

Very effective Frances. I like it.

[angelize]

Thanks stygg, Gary, and Larry.

[stygg2003]

Francis I used your image as a guide to create a glass bottle using the techniques we learned from the trans. cube video. I was going to post my image separately but it looked good along side yours so I added a couple of text lines for a Hers and Him image, hope you don't mind, if you do, please feel free to remove it. Thanks for posting your image I would not have thought of using the techniques on a bottle.

Stygg

[Gare]

You folks are really very impressive with the perfume bottle.

Bear with me here, to add a few observations: first, you're dead on with any reflections you might have going on with the bottle because it's planar.

But you also have some curving surfaces, and if this was glass, specular highlights would occur. And they'd have well-define, not diffuse, specular highlights because glass is almost a perfectly reflective, smooth surface. Nice what you've done so far, especially stygg with the highlight on the top.

My tutorial this month is how to make a semi-transparent object, not necessarily glass, though. If you want some hints for glass, see the tutorial on the differences between plastic and meta.

Here's not-to-good crack at reproducing your bottle in a modeling program.



Do you see any artifacts across its surface you might want to add to your splendid drawings?

My Best,

Gary

[csehz]

Gare thanks for the tutorial, very interesting topic, really good to remember to your shadow technique.

Well relating this scene, not sure what is it or where Those objects behind finally are just some extreme size extrudes with playing their lights



AbstractTranspCube.xar

[Gare]

I really like what you did, csehz, combining and contrasting a hard-edge, inorganic object with a background that reminds me of those fluorescent sea sponges and stuff miles below the ocean.

You instantly inspired me to do this:



My Best,

Gary

[csehz]

Thanks Gare, a modelling program generates such beautiful objects behind? Recently I had some tries with Blender, seeing what it can do by my computer hardly would survive such a rendering process

I was just considering yet how to extrude transparent cubes in Xara? So using extrudes not only for the tracing as reference, but exclusively those.

Finally came out with this idea, not sure there is something there they are just tries. The point of it would be putting over 3 transparent cubes which angles are in exactly 90 difference in a certain dimension



3x3D.xar

[theinonen]

Blender....

I have really wanted to like it but everytime I have tried to do anything with it, that awful user interface have made me walk away from the software. It was pretty much like going back in time to year 1990 when software on Amiga platform had interfaces like that.

Shame really as the capabilities of the software seem pretty good otherwise.

[Gare]

@csehz—

That is a WONDERFUL variation on the basic tutorial. It's exciting in its approach and its depth!

My Best,

Gary

P.S. I used XenoDream, an inexpensive organic modeling program that generates fractal sculptures, and then used Maxwell Render ot set up lighting, materials, and render the aquatic scene. It was O/T and I really shouldn't have posted it.

My Best,

Gary

[Big Frank]

Blender....

I have really wanted to like it but everytime I have tried to do anything with it, that awful user interface have made me walk away from the software

somewhere, rotting away on a backup drive, i have a copy of bryce2, if you remember that
i used it once and hated its ui so much i never used it again
what a waste