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led moldings
greetings to everyone, I would like to put led moldings on the floor and wall, I don't know how to do it in the program, if anyone knows, please help me and I need model 3d moldings ..... I'm a beginner on the forum, so I don't know how to put pictures. probably someone will understand me...thanks
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Re: led moldings
First moldings. Here you can download 3D models of moldings. Other 3D model sites will most likely have some too. You can also create your own moldings using boxes and cylinders.
Fort a long time now walls support baseboards. See the modify wall dialog for the properties.
To show images here on the forum you upload them to an image host like imgur or mediafire and post the link in your forum post.
That was the easy stuff :)
Led molding makes it a lot more difficult since it includes lights. The easiest solution is to use light panels stuck to stretched boxes that you use as molding.
But working with lights is not really a beginners topic. Light doesn't show in the 3Dview, you can only see the lights when you render a photo at one of the two highest quality levels. That can take a lot of rendering before you have your lights right. You need to get some experience to closely predict the result before rendering.
As said, it's not really a beginners topic since it requires both creating models and integrating light. Left unsaid that you might want led moldings IN the floor (flush with the surface) which is yet another problem to solve. I suggest that you work in stages. Start with the moldings before trying to turn them into led strips.
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Re: led moldings
greetings to everyone, I would like to put led moldings on the floor and wall, I don't know how to do it in the program, if anyone knows, please help me and I need model 3d moldings ..... I'm a beginner on the forum, so I don't know how to put pictures. probably someone will understand me...thanks
After you uploaded your files there is a "chain link" at the end displayed. Click that link to copy a share-link you can post on the forum. The same is also in the context menu when you click the 3 vertical dots at the end of a line with a file.
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Re: led moldings
my favorite way to make a diode backlight behind a molding step or under the ceiling is to create a chain of colored spheres from the new expanded light library. These spheres are very good, they can be pulled out as needed. Old balls are not allowed, they can only be balls. I take a height of 3.5 cm, a depth of 3.5cm, and a width of 33.5cm. For example. Other proportions are possible, the result will be equally good. The power of each sphere should be assigned quite large, 20-40%. And most importantly, the color. The highlights from orange spheres look best. But of course you can also assign cool colors. It's to your taste. The elongated spheres should be positioned with an overlap of 1/4 of each other, because the brightness of the light decreases at the edges, and an overlap of 1/4 of the width will equalize the brightness. Such a chain can be grouped, then copied and in a new section this group can be stretched to a new length. Or shorten it, the other sizes remain the same. It is very convenient with these spheres. I like the panels less, there are a lot of unnecessary side lights. The spheres shine more clearly and without surprises.
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Re: led moldings
image1.jpeg & image2.jpeg Looks like a partially lowered ceiling. Use a resized Box that you elevate to the ceiling but leave a little space above it where you can add a lightsource like a panel or a chain of spheres like GaudiGalopin3324 suggested.
image4.jpeg You can create this molding with boxes. You only see the outside of the molding so it makes no difference how the inside looks. The glass front can be a thin box that you make partially transparent by exporting the box and editing the resulting MTL file. Rename the first line with "newmtl ..." to "newmtl Glass". Add a line with "d 0.5" after the last line of that "newmtl Glass" block. Remove the other newmtl blocks. Edit the OBJ file and change all "usemtl ..." lines to "usemtl Glass". Save the files and import the OBJ file. The resulting object is a half transparent glass. You can change the d 0.5 value. Closer to 0.0 is more transparent, 1.0 is fully opaque (d 0.0 makes it invisible). You can still change the color if you want.
image3.jpeg Same as with image4, just a different design of the molding.
image5.jpeg Place the mirror a little away from the wall and add a lightsource behind the mirror. Probably a lightpanel that is a little smaller than the mirror.
image6.jpeg Another different design of molding where you add a lightsource in the hidden recess. No need for glass for this one unless you want to.
image7.jpeg Like image1 and image 2. A box close to the ceiling with a lightsource on top.
All very easy to create. You can use boxes, cylinders, and triangles to create 1 meter of molding. Export it and import. Now you can easily stretch the molding to the desired length.
GaudiGalopin3324 and other members are much better at advising what lightsources should work best, but you can of course experiment with different lightsources and see what you think gives the best result.
