How can I make a railing in a photo partly translucent?
Est0nian
that has a railing surrounding it's balcony, I would like to have the
railing in the model too, not just on the picture, right against the
wall, but how do I do it? Painting it without any transparency
anywhere would make it ugly.
Here's the picture of the building with the railing:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3096625.jpg
Help is much appreciated!
Josh H
depth. Such that you have the rail and the supports but nothing in
the middle. The easiest way to do that would be to make the railing
one solid face, then trace and cut out the interior. The railing is
pretty complex, so pick the elements that capture the architecture the
best and simplify the others.
Another option is to make the texture on a face around the porch
transparent, but really you only want parts of it to be transparent,
so that's why I recommend above.
SnowTiger
I believe the most effective way to portray this architectural element
is to create a Transparency Texture.
In fact, you could create a Repeating Texture that would also help
reduce the overall file size of the texture, although that shouldn't
be a necessity if you'd prefer to have the entire railing as one
complete Transparent Image Texture.
The quality, clarity and completeness of the photo you have provided a
link to, is perfectly suitable for creating a Transparency Texture for
this purpose.
I look forward to seeing your finished product/model in the near
future ... please let us know when it's ready.
J.Stevenson
How do I create a semi-transparent Railing Texture? I tried to use
Paintbrush to create a typical steel-tube style railing, leaving
whitespace in between. Saved this as a PNG format file. However,
when I apply it in Sketchup all I get is the railing image + big
opaque white spaces (not transparent). Maybe Paintbrush doesn't
create PNGs properly?
-Jon
matthiasbasler
On Jan 24, 8:02 pm, "J.Stevenson" <jstevenson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to use
> Paintbrush to create a typical steel-tube style railing, leaving
> whitespace in between. Saved this as a PNG format file. However,
> when I apply it in Sketchup all I get is the railing image + big
> opaque white spaces (not transparent). Maybe Paintbrush doesn't
> create PNGs properly?
Err ... forget Paintbrush!
If you take modelling buildings seriously and want to create good
quality models you need a decent image processing program, which
- can distort images
- can manipulate images (clone tool) to get rid of disruptive
foreground objects
- can correct colors, brightness etc.
- and supports transparencies.
I am sure you can find some Open Source Software like "The Gimp", but
I cannot give any advice here since I use a commercial application.
Also you might look for older versions of commercial applications,
which are often very cheaply available at software stores or
supermarkets and will still do the job ten times better than
Paintbrush.
P.S. No, you don't need Photoshop, to get the job done. ;-)