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| Zad:
Hi Shafri, I use Autodesk 3D Studio Max. The enclosure was imported from the manufacturer's (Hammond) own CAD files. The screw heads and BNC socket are my own models, taken from a product data sheet. Textures are fairly simple ones hacked together in the 3DS editor and Photoshop. Is that a Toon renderer that you used on yours? The sort of people I talk to aren't usually marketing or upper management people, but engineers or at least engineering managers. So they tend to be more impressed by a nicely laid out PCB or an innovative circuit schematic than they do with flashyness. An LCD or colour OLED would be nice to have, but I'm getting a bit of feature creep already and within reason the sooner it gets built the better. I have I/O pins spare, so I think I will include a header on the control board with standard text module power and I/O lines. That at least leaves the way open to fit a display without re-designing the whole board. The RF sources are both capable of being modulated very quickly and precisely, and the controller will synthesise standard test tones (there will be enough USB and controller bandwidth to allow for streamed audio from the PC, but that is beyond my USB skills for the moment). To monitor the modulation, I have included a simple audio output on the uC's DAC output, with a LPF and a standard LM386 amp feeding a small speaker. I had intended just to play a sinusoidal beep but, thinking about it, there might be flash space for a few short samples. A bell perhaps, nothing unsubtle like a fanfare. Unless I am pitching at Californians ;) Mike |
| Mechatrommer:
--- Quote from: Zad on September 21, 2010, 01:31:16 am ---Hi Shafri, I use Autodesk 3D Studio Max. The enclosure was imported from the manufacturer's (Hammond) own CAD files. The screw heads and BNC socket are my own models, taken from a product data sheet. Textures are fairly simple ones hacked together in the 3DS editor and Photoshop. Is that a Toon renderer that you used on yours? --- End quote --- toon renderer? no not sure, i think not, its just a custom photoshop action i've made from info in the net. i used to model 3D object in 3D Studio, but dos version, but now its Windows version and i'm kinda left behind, cannot even do the texturing right, just rendering a "milked" color and surface object in 3DS Max but 3D object made in AutoCAD. final touch up in photoshop, but... as i mentioned, my result is not that professional :P |
| Zad:
I know what you mean about textures, they can be a real pain to get right. Don't be afraid to Google around "borrow" textures that are freely available. To get a good milk texture you need to use sub-surface scattering functions, which are pretty advanced rendering to be honest. Certainly beyond me. Toon renders give an effect similar to yours, like it was drawn by a graphic artist using lines and flat shading. http://archondefender.blogspot.com/2008/03/3d-made-easy-4-toon-rendering-in-3d-max_08.html |
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