Hey guys,

Looks like a lot of people on this forum building their own home theater. I thought I'd mention the possibility of seeing your theater before you build it. There is some free software called Blender that allows you to draw your room up in 3d and see the results. It's very cool!

I did my own theater and the the theater of several AVS forum members. Just thought I'd point it out to you guys working hard on your rooms. The benefit to me was the ability to pick my room colors and try several options. Other people have bought different furniture or actually built the room differently upon seeing the renders . So, it's been quite helpful.

Anyways, just wanted to encourage some more of it over here. You can try the free software at www.blender3d.org and here are a few sample images that I did:

In progress (theater a):

Finished work (theater b):

Finished work (theater c):

The tool is actually capable of much better images. I get better with it all the time... but there is a learning curve. Well, enjoy...

reaper

[Ayub]

drools wow i wish i could do somthing like that!

[Mr Bump]

That is very cool. I was looking for something like that before I stared mine - oh well, too late now!

[stripe]

That looks pretty cool, but I imagine that it would quite a steep learning curve.

I'm leaving my plans as ambigous as possible, so that the wife can't say what's that and where did it come from, it wasn't on the plans.

That's hilarious, stripe! I guess that works for some guys. I HAD to do it to get my wife to agree to let me cut a rather large hole in a closet wall so that I could place my equipment rack in there. After she saw what it was going to look like, she agreed.

The wife associated with the bottom picture started to really get into the project upon seeing the renders. In fact, she went right out and started decorating it. See that artwork hanging on the wall? She picked that out and asked me to hang it for her!

You might be able to do it, Ayub. It does require some time, but there are some great forums and tutorials on the web for the tool. I guess I should be honest and admit that it took me 3 months to render my first room ... hahaha. I am getting much quicker now.

I don't want to violate forum rules... not sure if I am allowed to say this... but for people that want to have something like this but don't care to climb the learning curve, I've been known to help out for a small (well imo) paypal payment. But don't take that as pushing services or anything... I am really just an enthusiast who likes to help people out.

reaper

Here is a before of my closet:

http://www.reaper.us/html/before_7.html

And here is an after:

http://www.reaper.us/html/construction_8.html

That took some work and thinking to cut and frame it out without damaging the drywall around the hole

reaper

Hi

Which version of blender do you use, mine keeps on crashing (2.36).

I use Pro/ENGINEER to model in 3d, I've seen an import for Pro/ENGINEER slp files in Blender but as I say it keeps on crashing.

Hope you can help

Thanks

Geoff

I am also using 2.36. I have heard of people having difficulty with the tool running properly. Perhaps this thread will help:

http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13722

Thanks for the link,
I managed to get it working. Well I download BlenderCAD & imported the slp file into that with no poblem. Since then the other Blender works fine too.

Now I'm slowly working my way through the Tutorials.

I'm not interested in making models within Blender I can do that with Pro/ENGINEER just the rendering settings.

Thanks

Geoff

Blender Cad? That thing is simply a blender file with a pre-alpha python script embedded in it. Isn't that right? I am surprised to hear that could make Blender work. Well, glad you got it working

Is BlenderCAD giving you something useful beyond getting the program to work?

reaper

I was just looking around on Google and came across BlenderCAD, I believe its been dropped as as project and no one is working on it anymore.

I imported a slp file into it with no problem, then I opened up the other one & that imported no problem.

Your right BlenderCAD is a blender script and maybe the script fixed it, allthough the import for proe slp files was there before I tried BlenderCAD.

Thanks

Geoff

I created some new renders. Check em out here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0&pagenumber=1