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Creating nice 3D views from the GUI?

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tention ·

Hello smaz,

i have just tried to draw a 3D view from one of my Synths, like you always see on sites of other developers. It always look more realistic, like real knobs, sliders ans so on.

How would you realize this? I have stretched the GUI in a horizontal perspective, resized the width, that it doesn't look too stretched, and pulled the grafix of the knobs that they look deep.

Here the original GUI

Here the 3D draft

Is there any software out there, especially for something like this? I have done that all by hand, and its too much work for just such a litte grafic. How do you realize 3D views of something plane like a GUI?

I am very interested in your replies... Thanks

infuzion ·

you can load your own graphics into the Bitmap Knob.

tention ·

infuzion wrote: you can load your own graphics into the Bitmap Knob.

???

sunsynth ·

Hallo tention,

ich glaube infuzion meint:

einfach deine "3D-Hüte" (Knobs) schon in SM laden um dann erst zu stretchen?!

Is ne geniale Idee eigentlich - wie ich finde!

Ach ja, sieht schon gut aus, deine Handarbeit!

Schönen dritten Advent...

SUNsynth

tention ·

sunsynth wrote: Hallo tention,

ich glaube infuzion meint:

einfach deine "3D-Hüte" (Knobs) schon in SM laden um dann erst zu stretchen?!

Is ne geniale Idee eigentlich - wie ich finde!

Ach ja, sieht schon gut aus, deine Handarbeit!

Schönen dritten Advent...

SUNsynth

Sorry, aber ich verstehe den Sinn darin nicht. Ich habe ein Bild meiner Oberfläche (siehe oben), dieses versuche ich in 3D darzustellen. Ich weiss jetzt nicht wirklich, wie ich das mit SM machen sollte?!?

sunsynth ·

Ich habe ein Bild meiner Oberfläche (siehe oben), dieses versuche ich in 3D darzustellen

Ist schon klar was du willst... Ein Bild sagt mehr...

Hmm, dann solltest du deine Front vektorisieren und in einem 3D Programm weiterbearbeiten... Hier gibt es demo-progs und auch kostenlose - doch mit denen ist es auch nicht "einfach" 😉

Sorry, die 1-2-3 Version kenne ich leider auch nicht :-(

SUNsynth

P.S: Wenn du weitergehende Info's willst, PM mir einfach!

tention ·

Ich habe das Ganze schon in gmax umgesetzt, jedoch ist das Ergebnis nicht wirklich zufrieden stellend. Werde ich es wohl per Hand machen müssen. Trotzdem Danke für deine Hilfe.

echopark ·

Hallo Tention, mit dem Animationsprg Blender könnte dies funktionieren. Ist ein fantastisches Open source 3D Prg

www.blender.org

Hier ist ein Tutorial wie man eine 3D softwarebox mit blender macht, müsste eigentlich auch für deinen Zweck brauchbar sein.

http://www.blendercourse.com/Dutch.aspx

jobro ·

Ok switching back to english shall we? Can one skew images in SM?

soundessential ·

A quick and simple solution is to use photoshop to add some lighting effect to the screenshot of your vst. Just remember that lighter colors pop out and darker colors sink. So all you really need is the dodge and burn tool after you've skewed your photo as shown in the original post.

You may also want to use the transform tool to stretch your knobs so they look like they are sticking out, or over other elements. You will need to select the knob by itself.

I hope this helps. -Gerald (newbie)

rayzer ·

another thing i thought of is when your vst is finished look in the bottom left of the screen for the pixel size. open photoshop or w/e and make it that size, cut out the parts of the layer u dont need and bevel it. save to gif then u can lay it over your vst in SM. make sure u got a transpaernt bgnd in your layer

theorize ·

you could justdesign you gui in 3d, then all you'd really have to do is change the camera angle.

organmonsta ·

The way I do it is to do the graphics first before putting the vst together in SM

theorize ·

for people new to 3d i would suggest using this before blender... blender defintely has some modelling quirks, but it's great for doing scenes, and rendering.

http://www.caligari.com/products/truespace/ts3/

the link above is to and older version of truespace that is freeware, but it's got some really good tools, and the interface is simple.

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