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Hello, I am doing an interior scene with a wood floor, what is the best way to do a wood floor? Room is 12ft x 12ft.

Thanks in advance, George

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Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on September 4, 2012 at 2:38pm

I like to use a floor bitmap to create the material.  I have attached a few examples.

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Permalink Reply by George on September 5, 2012 at 10:21am

Thank you Scott, so do you apply the bitmap to a surface for the floor or do you do the ground plane option even if it is just a room. Where would I find a medium oak floor bitmap?

Thank you for your time, George

 

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on September 5, 2012 at 10:22am

It depends.  Normally I will draw the floor since I do not want to see it outside the windows.

Permalink Reply by Mash Derrick on September 6, 2012 at 2:52am

Another wood question, how do you deal with change of direction in grain in wood. I think in the past I just rotated it.

For example, teak cockpit floor. Wood grain runs in the wrong directions, plus the corners ideally would follow the curve but at 45 degrees would work.

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on September 6, 2012 at 2:41pm

I might do this in two stages. 

  1. The teak running the wrong direction, I would rotate the bitmap.  This can be done in the texture on the advanced tab.  See the rotation control?
  2. The edge pieces should be drawn in Photoshop.  You can use alpha channel for the inside area and the outside of the edge pieces.  You can curve the grain in those cases that it needs to be curved.  The planking will show through the alpha channel areas.  Apply this bitmap as a decal to the floor and benches.
Permalink Reply by G. Neil Armstrong on December 8, 2012 at 9:02am

HI, I am trying to do a wood floor interior.  I have read the forum, looked for videos, exhausted any and all tutorials and for the world of me I cannot figure out how to import the examples even for testing.  Can some one please shed some light on my on going and increasingly frustrating, yet seemingly simple task.  I have tried import, insert etc.  all it tells me is that Rhino does not recognize the file.  Any and all solutions will be greatly appreciated.

Permalink Reply by Mash Derrick on December 9, 2012 at 10:57am

Hi there,

The files from Scot are actual material files, to import them you have to drop them into the material library and that location is dependent / can be dependent on the Operating System you are running, in my case is is ProgramData>McNeel>Flamingo nXt> Language Pack > en-US >Materials>Wood.

In nXt the materials which are used in a model stay with the Rhino file of the model so I have attached a model of 10 x 10m surface with both materials applied. Download this model, hopefully the materials will be with it (It will appear in the upper window) to add to your library just drag them down into the correct folder.

It is not exciting model but will have the materials for you. Image below shows what you are getting.

I hope that helps.

Will save it as R5 will upload it as R4 if necessary.

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