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suggestion for perforated metal

Posted by Larry Goldberg on October 31, 2010 at 2:27am in IRender nXt ArielVision 3D Design Studio (Sket

anyone have any thougths or examples on how to create a perforated metal surface that has the holes transparent so you can see through - for example within a 4 sided frame .  Idealy, the material is scalable so it can be stretched to fit any size.  Not sure if this is a skechup question or material/nxt question, but thougth I'd try here first.

 

thanks,

 

Larry 

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  • Boothy November 1, 2010 at 10:26am
    if its a `one off`

    component it may be easier to produce repeatable tile in photoshop and stretch components accordingly
    Boothy
  • Larry Goldberg November 1, 2010 at 10:14am
    now this is exactly what I'm looking for. Will investiage your rec as I'm not sure how to create a dynamic component, but will look into that as well as the transparent png, thanks much

    Boothy said:
    Hi Larry

    As Al says above to strectch it you could either make a dynamic component in SU or make transparent PNG tilable so when you stretch model by moving elements (not scaling) the png file should repeat.I attached a sample trans PNG perf door I did for cpu housing - I also included some hilights on PNG file around holes to give hint of indentation.Th PNG on this sample is fairly low res - for close ups you may require an higher res texture

    Boothy

  • Larry Goldberg November 1, 2010 at 10:13am
    this works perfectly, excpet for the look - not a perf metal design. will search further

    Al Hart said:
    Create an alpha-transparent image to use for the surface - wherever the PNG image is transparent, you will be able to see through the perforations.

    Here I used the SketchUp Fence texture - which is alpha transparent.

  • Boothy November 1, 2010 at 10:00am
    Hi Larry

    As Al says above to strectch it you could either make a dynamic component in SU or make transparent PNG tilable so when you stretch model by moving elements (not scaling) the png file should repeat.I attached a sample trans PNG perf door I did for cpu housing - I also included some hilights on PNG file around holes to give hint of indentation.Th PNG on this sample is fairly low res - for close ups you may require an higher res texture

    Boothy

    cpu steel door.zip

  • Render Plus October 31, 2010 at 4:30am
    Create an alpha-transparent image to use for the surface - wherever the PNG image is transparent, you will be able to see through the perforations.

    Here I used the SketchUp Fence texture - which is alpha transparent.

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