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Hello all.

Been tied up with a bunch of different stuff just lately, so not an entire 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, akin to edge chamfers and weld beads and the like. Gonna should recreate that stuff. Additionally, a number of parts have been added, up to date, improved, and so forth. even since these renders, so this image just isn’t the ultimate phrase by a great 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 primary gun’s thermal sleeve particulars; head- and tail-lights; tons of different comparatively minor issues, akin to radio antennae. Oh, and the tracks…

Query: is there a not-Ph.D. stage manner of including textual content (akin to signage) to those fashions? I’ve tried a number of instances however it doesn’t matter what I can’t make it work. Recommendations gratefully accepted!

Lastly drive housing is last completed. Virtually. Not fairly.

Nonetheless no FD hubs or hub bolt holes. Quickly, although. (That is an interrupted render, therefore all of the noise.)

The mannequin appears 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 assist 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 are knowledgeable in making use of textures.

Hello!

The mannequin appears 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 assist 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 motive the .png would all the time obscure the underlying coloration. I create transparencies in Photoshop very often and infrequently have difficulties with that, however for no matter motive nothing I attempted labored with SU.

Thanks for the recommendations; I’ll strive the .png route once more.

Drag the png (with or with out transparency) into your mannequin straight onto the specified face. And making use of it as picture.

The end result should 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. That you must drag one into the mannequin once more)

Perhaps not the only, and positively past my expertise stage but, however given you’re utilizing V-Ray, it has a decal characteristic:

Once more, good work.

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.

It does. And could also be sufficient for one file/mannequin. The face and its picture are one.
The general draw back just isn’t with the ability to merely copy the glued picture to a different face.
You possibly can nonetheless 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 manner of copying

Hey, large because of everyone in your recommendations, I’ll strive them out later right this moment! This website is nice!

Remaining drive is lastly last:

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 photographs.)

Thanks once more for the assistance, guys.

Holy buckets, this labored!

Thanks for the answer.

Be aware that a picture positioned (glued) like this on a face can nonetheless be moved in the identical airplane (on or subsequent to the face), rotated in airplane and may also be scaled.

Subsequent query: This drag-and-drop technique allowed me to use the .png to the floor and it appears nice. Nonetheless, when attempting to render it in V-Ray all I see is the naked floor and the faint define of the picture bearing the textual content. Have I missed a step or 5?

Sorry, another person has to stroll you thru the precise course of. Nonetheless, I’m not even certain if that is potential in any respect with photographs. I don’t do any renders (but?) exterior SketchUp’s native choices.

You should still should isolate the form (as traced texture) on the bigger face.
I believe @TIG made an extention to hint the define of shapes to then be used on faces.

OK, thanks, I’ll look into that.