New to 3d/graphics manipulation. I need Help!

FrigidInc · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Amherst, OH

I have recently started a company that builds custom high-performance pcs similar to Alienware for a significant reduction in cost.

My problem is that we are a small company with very little to no money. We cannot afford to hire or pay anyone to make us custom graphics. A friend of mine had given me a copy of Vue 5 Infinite Educational License which his grandparents had bought him for his birthday. He told his parents he wanted to be an artist but changed his mind. lol.

With Vue 5 Infinite in hand i decided to start playing. As you can tell my company's name is "Frigid, Inc". We wish our company logo to be an IceCube with a Snowflake inside. I have had success creating a Snowflake in MS paint then touching it up in Photoshop CS, and I have had success creating what "appears" to be an IceCube in Vue 5 Infinite. My new dilemma is how to get that Snowflake into or appear to be inside that IceCube.

Any help would be appreciated, but beware i know nothing about graphics or 3d rendering. So with that said please be patient and i will post what i have.
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FrigidInc · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Amherst, OH

Okay. Nevermind. I figured it out. I had to add a plane and then the picture to it then put the ice cube in front of it. It's not pretty...but I will continue to clean it up.
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Sarissi · Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 807 Location: Mansfield, OH, USA

If you did a 3D snowflake, and placed it inside the cube, that might work better. Provided Vue allows this sort of thing.

Bryce can. Just not sure about Vue.
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FrigidInc · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Amherst, OH

Well I suppose that is what I"m really after...But do you have any suggestions on how I can make sure that all of the points are symetrical?

This is what i have now...
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FrigidInc · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Amherst, OH

do you have any renders of your own which i can view I love all of the artwork in these forums

mansfeild humm... I live in amherst, oh. a little more north than you.
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Sarissi · Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 807 Location: Mansfield, OH, USA

/me waves...

I have a friend in Hinckley, and I have his computer here, upgrade hardware and install OSes and software.

I have yet to model anything at all, in any program. However, I do read a number of forums, and learn alot this way.

Hmmm...... One method might to use a modelling program, like Wings3D (Free), export as OBJ. Then import into Vue. UV Mapping might be needed for texturing, though I am not sure about that for Vue.

Also look on Renderosity in their freestuff and marketplace. If you find anything of use, be sure to read the EULA, since this use would be commercial, though most of that deals with redistributing. Use in Images is what you are concerned with.

The thing with doing it Bryce with Bryce primitives, is that you can't export it to use in another program. It would involve more than one primitive, and Booleans (The Bryce Way of doing things).

In any case, once you get the 3D snowflake, you apply the Material (shader), and you have a nice, blue snowflake without the background in the image you posted.

Oh, I have Vue 4 d'Esprit, and haven't done much other than playing around in it.

Check in the modelling and free forums here also.

Oh, we aren't the only 2 on here in Ohio. SpiritBro is in Akron. Not sure how many others though.
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Sarissi · Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 807 Location: Mansfield, OH, USA

The only renders I have posted, are over on renderotica, and I am not sure they are to your tastes. hehehe Mostly character WIPs and so forth. pretty amateurish stuff. Went through a period where my geriatric mom w/dementia was being a demon of disruption: do anything at all, and get mercilessly disrupted. Now she is in nursing home. I am trying to break free of the habit of doing nothing, and it ain't easy.
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regaltwo · Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 28

I know your'e long gone, but I you could create a good snowflake directly in Vue by creating a terrain, going to edit terrain, reset, apply picture, then import a simple bw image of snowflake. You may have to adjust the mixture settings a bit, but it should work. Then find a nice Vue ice mat somewhere (I think there's one at Renderosity), and apply it.

welshdragon · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 76

here you better looking than a blue snowflake