Galileo thermometer

Kåre · Post by **Kåre** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:49 pm

Wow there's happened a lot since I last found me some time and some inspiration to do some 3d-stuff. I must say Ono's the man!
Well this was made for the 3dtotal smc which is running right now. It took a lot of time to get the precedence working since I hadn't used it before. I still think it's a bit weird that the middle of the "drops" aren't coloured, but I'm not sure if it's wrong.

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:23 am

Good job, i've done a Galileo therm too and it's a pain to get precedence right.

Check your normal smoothing, I see facets.

ave · Post by **ave** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:17 am

Nice job!

Well, I owe one of those galileo thermometer and I can see no white in the middle of the drops! Another point: to me the drops and their glass "balls" seem a bit "flat", i.e. with almost no reflections from outside...

Kåre · Post by **Kåre** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:32 pm

Thanks for the comments from both of you.

@zsouthboy: I'm not sure what I can do with the normalsmoothing... It's on and my normals are pointing in the right direction. How do I fix it?

@ave: Yeah they look kind of flat, but they have the same material as the outer shell, so I have no idea how to make them more reflective, or actually how to make it show with the same material.

Tips and tricks are welcome!

ave · Post by **ave** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:58 am

In your model the glass "balls" are a whole solid or did you model also their thickness and put air inside?
If it is the first, maybe this could explain why you don't see reflections...

Kåre · Post by **Kåre** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:57 am

Everything is modelled the way I think it should be i.e. the "balls" have a thickness and the outer part has a thickness and the water, both coloured and colourless is whole solids.

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