Comments on: Modeling an Arco floor lamp by Castiglioni in Blender 3D

By: New tutorial about studio lighting for YafaRay in Blender 3D

New tutorial about studio lighting for YafaRay in Blender 3D — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:09:28 +0000

[...] I always have a studio setup scene ready to show models created in Blender 3D, to render them in either YafaRay or LuxRender. If you are a regular reader of the blog, you might have seen one of those scenes used to present a furniture tutorial showed here in the past, like this modeling tutorial about an Arco Floor Lamp. [...]

By: Allan Brito

Allan Brito — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:59:28 +0000

Hi kikeonline,

To create the arc, use the Spin tool.

By: kikeonline

kikeonline — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:31:03 +0000

can someone tell how did he do the arc?????????????????

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:55:57 +0000

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By: Roger Waggener

Roger Waggener — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:04:26 +0000

While the background image is quick and easy, I’ve found a far more robust method of using a reference image is to create a UV mapped reference plane.

Add a new plane, UV map the reference image to the whole of the plane. Then the trick is to add a material to the plane using the image as a texture and UV for the mapping.

The image will appear distorted on the plane (unless it was square to begin with) but simply typing alt-v in object mode with the plane selected will scale its aspect ratio to the image. Now you have a reference plane which can be rotated, translated, and scaled to make modeling easier.

By: Arkinauta

Arkinauta — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:06:03 +0000

As always, fantastic. Thanks, Allan.
I will follow your tip about modelling our furniture.

Greetings!