Hello all.
Been tied up with a bunch of different stuff not too long ago, so not a complete lot of progress. I rebuilt the whole decrease hull to treatment some points. These are all fastened, however within the course of I misplaced some finer particulars, equivalent to edge chamfers and weld beads and the like. Gonna need to recreate that stuff. Additionally, just a few elements have been added, up to date, improved, and so forth. even since these renders, so this image is just not the ultimate phrase by a good distance.
Nonetheless so as to add are the exhaust vents; the commander’s cupola; the commander’s .50 cal low-profile CROWS and base; the principle gun’s thermal sleeve particulars; head- and tail-lights; tons of different comparatively minor issues, equivalent to radio antennae. Oh, and the tracks… 
Query: is there a not-Ph.D. degree method of including textual content (equivalent to signage) to those fashions? I’ve tried just a few instances however it doesn’t matter what I can’t make it work. Solutions gratefully accepted!
Lastly drive housing is ultimate completed. Nearly. Not fairly.
Nonetheless no FD hubs or hub bolt holes. Quickly, although. (That is an interrupted render, therefore all of the noise.)
The mannequin seems very good!
What have you ever tried? For flat textual content (not embossed or extruded) a 2D picture containing the specified textual content can be utilized as a texture and painted onto the face(s) desired. Use PNG format to help transparency in areas the place you need the underlying face’s materials to be seen (between letters within the signage, say). I’ve had restricted expertise doing this myself (I principally use plain stable colours) however there are different members on this discussion board group which might be professional in making use of textures.
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Hello!
The mannequin seems very good!
Thanks!
What have you ever tried? For flat textual content (not embossed or extruded) a 2D picture containing the specified textual content can be utilized as a texture and painted onto the face(s) desired. Use PNG format to help transparency in areas the place you need the underlying face’s materials to be seen (between letters within the signage, say).
Yep, I attempted that too, however for some purpose the .png would at all times obscure the underlying colour. I create transparencies in Photoshop very often and barely have difficulties with that, however for no matter purpose nothing I attempted labored with SU. 
Thanks for the ideas; I’ll attempt the .png route once more.
Drag the png (with or with out transparency) into your mannequin immediately onto the specified face. And making use of it as picture.
The consequence have to be a picture glued to that face.
(you can’t copy a “glue to picture” onto one other face as a brand new “glue to” picture. It’s essential to drag one into the mannequin once more)
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Possibly not the only, and positively past my expertise degree but, however given you’re utilizing V-Ray, it has a decal characteristic:
Once more, good work.
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Thanks for the reminder. I neglect about drag and drop. I attempted that and Import from the menu and each labored. Confirmed that attempting to repeat the picture from one floor to the opposite doesn’t work however copying the entire face with the picture does.
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It does. And could also be sufficient for one file/mannequin. The face and its picture are one.
The general draw back is just not having the ability to merely copy the glued picture to a different face.
You’ll be able to nevertheless wrap your favourite [image+shrinked face] right into a element. To construct a set.
The element can then be positioned on any face later and exploded so the (shrinked) face merges with the bigger face. Delete the little face’s edges and you’ve got a distinct method of copying
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Hey, large due to everyone in your ideas, I’ll attempt them out later immediately! This website is nice! 
Remaining drive is lastly ultimate:
That’s all I’m doing to it (for now). The drive sprocket covers up most of it anyhow!
(I as soon as once more interrupted the renders after only some passes as I wanted the laptop computer for different stuff, so please don’t blame V-Ray for the noisy pictures.)
Thanks once more for the assistance, guys.
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