Theatre Seating

[mbbailey]

Alen, that seat back looks great! Where did you leave the file?

Thanks,

Mike

[ank345]

here is the seat back rest.. have to trouble Don to put it up for you...

Oop! the files is too big...will try original symbol..

[ARCHIJEF2000]

Nice to see somone come in and sign the visitors book

[ARCHIJEF2000]

Mike did you get my email, and have you done a trial rendering of all 200 plus seats, using any of the models provided.

[mbbailey]

I responded to your email, but it came back with an error.

My computer slows down so much with just one row of these seats that putting 200 of them in a drawing would be a disaster. I think they need to change CA to make symbols less CPU intensive. I know ADT has a way to place cumtiple copies of complicated blocks that take up less memory and doesn't slow the system down.

The short answer is "no" and the reason was that I was affraid that it would crash my computer to put that many into the drawing.

I need a version that is much less compute intensive.

Thank,

Mike

[ank345]

you can place all the seats in.. then send the file ( DWG ) to me... I can use Atr*Lantis to render for you it may only take.. 10 minutes the most to render in art*Lantis 4.5 .. ( I have just down loaded the latest release of Art*Lantis R) i can use you model to try on the new rendering from Art*Lantis R ..Comes with Radiosity..

My e-mail ank345@gmail.com

[lbuttery]

Alan:

Can you let us know your opinion of Artlantis 4.5 after you have "played" with it some ?

I have SU also and may want a "nice" render/ray program in the future.

Lew

[Bill]

Originally posted by lbuttery
Alan:

Can you let us know your opinion of Artlantis 4.5 after you have "played" with it some ?

I have SU also and may want a "nice" render/ray program in the future.

Lew

Hi Lew,

I just sent you an invitation to join the Chief Architect-Art-Lantis yahoo group I established over 2 years ago for users of both products.

[lbuttery]

Thanks, now that I have SU Artlantis is looking more interesting. Tho it will probably be awhile before we start doing ray traces.

Lew

[ank345]

this images is done with Art@Lantis 1 minutes

[ank345]

This one.... 'R'

[ank345]

Toying with the light settings... ( Time takes to rendered 5 minutes )

[mbbailey]

I just sent Alan Cheng the file of what I am working on for the Ferndale Repertory Theatre with all the seating in place. What a job to verify everything was correct. I ran into a few problems with version 10 during my work that you guys may want to check out. I sent a note about this to Tech Support.

My problem was with the Transform/Replicate Tool in its treatment of moving Architectural Blocks composed of 3D Furniture Symbols. My project was to replicate rows of theatre seats and automatically change their height by a factor of 0.091703 inches of rise for every inch moved toward the back of the theatre. I used the Z (3.2211) value and Y (-35 1/8) value to replicate the Blocks of seats

Things did not go as expected. The Z Delta value vertically moved the Blocks of seats twice as far as expected. I proved this by exploding the blocks and opening the furniture objects to check the Floor to Bottom Specification in the General Tab. They were consistently twice the value that I had put into the Z value for the Transform/Replicate Tool, Move, Z Delta: input box. . I even went back and replicated all the rows with no Z Delta and manually moved each Block the required number of inches for that Block and found that the result was the same. The actual movement was twice what I had input for the Z Delta.

During this same time I also noticed that my Elevation Cameras were not consistently being removed or deleted when I closed my Elevation pages without saving them. I had to manually delete the cameras.

It took a while to work through all of this and that is the reason that it took me a couple of days to get back to you all.

BTW, those renderings that you folks posted are really good. How much does that software cost??

Mike

[lbuttery]

It depends if it is bought stand-alone ($495) or as a plug-in for another program. I believe a plug-in for Sketchup will be released soon.

The "Shaders" texture bundle for $495 ($75/vol) looks good also.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/intcad/modren.html

Lew

[ank345]

Here is the rendering done with Art*Lantis R .. 8 minutes..