Rendering Help?

hi,

i am new to 3D in autocad so i have been trying lots of different things. with some help i have managed to put together this Royal Navy T45 destroyer.

does anyone have any suggestions on how i could render this?

i have managed to grasp 3D drawing but not very good with rendering part.

thanks

Steven

here it is

Steven,

I would try google Sketch-Up. You may be able to export this as a *.dxf file and the import it. I find Sketch-Up to be the EASIT rendering program for odd shaped items. (I only use AutoCAD to render my house plans.)

thanks for the advice steve!

i will give it a try

is autocad rendering extremely difficult for shapes like this?

as i said im a newb to all autocad 3d.

I don't draw odd shapes. I only do house plans. Here a sample of some of the odd Sketch-Up drawing I have drawn.

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=38400&page=5

Rendering is rendering. It has nothing to do with the shapes of your objects. Or are you actually talking about building the model. Modeling and rendering are two completely different things.

I agree with Cad64.I was a bit confused when CADMASTER suggested to use Sketchup for the rendering part.I really think he should try the built in rendering engine of AutoCAD which i think is great,and if he's not satisfied he could move to another rendering package.

I am not good with rendering items that are not house plans. So when I want to render items such as that Casting Machine, I use Sketch-Up. Does that make more sense?

here it is

Well first you need to apply some materials first if you want it to be rendered good.

And that i think its the hardest part when it comes to rendering.

Well first you need to apply some materials first if you want it to be rendered good.

And that i think its the hardest part when it comes to rendering.

thanks Dorian,

i am having trouble attaching materials right now.

when i attach them they dont seem to show on the drawing when i set the view to REALISTIC.

also when i do manage to get the material to show its very small.

are there anyways to scale the material?

thanks

Steven

thanks Dorian,

i am having trouble attaching materials right now.

when i attach them they dont seem to show on the drawing when i set the view to REALISTIC.

also when i do manage to get the material to show its very small.

are there anyways to scale the material?

 

thanks

Steven

Yes. Material scaling and tiling.

First you create new material, than apply texture maps, bump maps, and apply it to a certain point, and then play a bit with the material scale and tiling.

But i wouldn't know if that is quite possible in your ship, cause its just one model.

How many trips to Govan did that take? lol

Looking good though mate.

I had a rendering tutorial in pdf somewhere. I downloaded it from Autodesk.

I'll have a looksie to see if I can find it again.

The rendering one can be found here.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10975906&linkID=9240615

This is the page above it, incase anything else catches your eye bud.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=13202161&linkID=9240615

Yes. Material scaling and tiling.

 

First you create new material, than apply texture maps, bump maps, and apply it to a certain point, and then play a bit with the material scale and tiling.

 

But i wouldn't know if that is quite possible in your ship, cause its just one model.

Thanks, i'll look into it

The rendering one can be found here.

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10975906&linkID=9240615

 

 

 

This is the page above it, incase anything else catches your eye bud.

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=13202161&linkID=9240615

Cheers Steve :wink:

will give them a go tomorrow

No bother mate