PDN Fanatics

As noted in your gallery.

Lance McKnight wrote:Pixey, make sure you are using an image hosting website, Photobucket or ImageShack, instead of attaching your picture to the post.

Oh dear, sorry I didn't know that. Will this also be what I need to do when I'm ready to begin a small gallery in the "I made this" area? I've been meaning to ask how one does that.

Edit: I've changed the 3D Rooms now to Photobucket.

That would be a good idea. If you use a hosting site like ImageShack you don't use space (bandwidth) on the forum. And if you register on ImageShack you have the possibility to change and delete your pictures at will. I don't know how it is here, but i know of forums where you have to ask a mod to do that.

Leif wrote:That would be a good idea. If you use a hosting site like ImageShack you don't use space (bandwidth) on the forum. And if you register on ImageShack you have the possibility to change and delete your pictures at will. I don't know how it is here, but i know of forums where you have to ask a mod to do that.

Thanks for that tip Leif. I guess the same applies to Photobucket?

I haven't used Photobuket, so i don't know.

Yes it`s the same for Photobucket. I notice that Lance has put up a handy tutorial on how to link to Photobucket.

Pixey wrote:Just two areas where I had trouble.

1. I was not sure which section of "ceiling/floor" to cut out for a see-through door/window.
2. I could not figure out how to find the correct setting for "Rotate Axis-2" in order to 'twist' the room.

Edited: photos now on Photobucket.

Thank you very much, and very nice rooms.
And to answer your 2 questions:

1-Select the window, then switch to ceiling/floor layer and hit delete. Download the Zip file to see all the layers of the pdn file, they are 2 files one before S3D and other after, you will see the cutout window clearly and what I am talking about.

2-Axis-2 in the S3D plugin under Object Rotation, I usually set Axis-1 for "X" rotation, Axis-2 for "Y" rotation and Axis-3 for "Z" rotation, because I rotate my objects around all axises, but in this case you can use only Axis-1 after checking "Y" and rotate all the layers, it is a little confusing, try to download the XML files below, it is 2 XML codes, one for 0,0,0 angles and other for 0,15,0 for x,y,z axis respectively, un-zip them and load them on S3D and see the difference between the two.

@ Leif - many thanks for your input
@ Goonfella - great ..... now I have no excuse for not starting my own gallery, soon
@ Sargon - Wow! Thanks so much for the explanations, plus attachements, and I will definitely do another room in the not too distant future.

Thank you ALL for your help. This is certainly a lovely forum to belong to

ive downloaded your tut had a flick thru it and am definatly gonna give it a go. i did my first 3d room differently i just made 1 wall 3d box shape that deleted the floor and celing made another layer underneath with my wood floor and applyed the same 3d shape settings and just filled the celing with plane colour but i like how your rooms have more detail and will give it a go soon

cheers evil

The Blue Room
I promised to try this one out & I have.

Well written & easy to follow, Sargon. Thank you for your kindness in writing this for us.

EDIT: Furniture is stock by Gild-a_stock on DA.

Outstanding! Beautiful furniture Bbq. If there is one thing I could pick on it is the lack of some sort of lighting which makes the room look a bit dark. I think a chandelier would look smashing.
Apart from that small thing it`s fantastic.

Goonie the furniture is stock by Gild-a-Stock on DA. I thought I had put that in. Must have been on DA. Darn, I'll have to edit the post.

Lights are on the walls but I guess they should be a bit brighter. I have been working on an Art Deco ceiling light but not happy with the outcome so I am going to scrap it.

Chandelier - hmmm, will have to think on that. I think I'll be giving this one another go at some stage.