Rendering is a pain, I do not use it very often but it comes in handy sometimes. So onshape wants another $1k on top of the already $1500, per year for rendering. Keyshot is great, but they want $1300/yr…
This was after about 10-15 minutes in twinmotion. Free for biz under $1M gross profits, and pretty easy. I think with a little tweaking on it I can get pretty decent results.
I spent another hour last night actually trying to get this same image and getting frustrated in blender. I got the texture on it, but it mapped funny and I could not figure out how to rotate it or move the camera.
There is also light trace render, $11/month and they are fine with a on off use basis, or like $180 for lifetime. It looks pretty good as well. I might give that a shot later today. It actually looks like it might be a little better suited for CAD renders…not sure that is just a guess.
Man sometimes I get in the groove with blender, other times I fight it like a little kid. Then I try the programs listed above and bam I can import move render camera work all that in minutes of opening the program.
Maybe there is a happy medium I can get it close in a different program and import that entire scene into blender and do some final tweaks if I need them.
At first glance twin motion seems the best option right now. lighttracer seems to wrap texture in an odd way, unless I am doing something wrong (probably doing something wrong).
Very cool. I hesitated to guess a ring and thought crap I bet it something EVERYONE knows and feared not a ring
“One ring to rule them all…”
I named my Primo “My Precious” few years ago but creeped my wife out hearing me in the basement talking like Gollum.
Anyway back in college I taught woodworking in the student center craft center and we had jewelry making, darkroom (color and B/W) , ceramics, etc. I was the only technic-nerd all the others were fine art majors but we taught each other so a fun school job.
@vicious1 look into “lost wax investment casting” if you are not familiar. VERY cool. You can cast it in gold or silver. you would carve out in wax a jewelry idea, attach a runner and sprue, cast a plaster slurry around it, put in the kiln, wax melts out, then you have perfect one time mold, pour molten gold in a centrifuge, release it, DUCK, gold gets driven into the plaster casting, submerge in hot water, trim and polish!! You have a neat gold
We have huge cicada’s in Chicago every 17 years. I took a dead one and mounted it on a wax sprue and made a cool broach. But gold was ~$125 an ounce in 1975. not cheap but better then today.
BTW that’s how dentist used to make fillings with wax impressions that. Todays trivia!
