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| Posted by Wendell_Burke at Dec 3, 2024, 4:57:42 AM |
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Re: Help creating new object & light source from scratch You're struggling with several basic concepts of Sweet Home 3D because you are trying to create a piece of furniture with several advanced aspects before you went through the more sedate process of learning Sweet Home 3D. No problem, kudos for what you already have achieved! Thank you. And yeah, that's fair. I have some previous experience on home design software and a background with graphic software like Adobe and I figured there would be a good deal of overlap there, but maybe not as much as I'd hoped. Anyway... Concerning the levels you should read the manual available at the manual page on Dodecagon.nl. You know, I thought I had read them all but I missed this one. I'm looking at it now. I followed the rest of your instructions, but I must have gotten something else wrong again. I was really careful too. It's pretty close, but there are some issues. After modifying the brace in the Furniture Library Editor, I saved it back to the same file name I had previously, so I saved over the file I imported into that program. I didn't think that would be a problem. The Brace came through with the light control and that was great. I even got is sized correctly, though at the last import, it still managed to come in laying down instead of being upright, which I thought I had already adjusted for, but apparently not. When I made the last import into my project in Sweet Home 3d, it was laying on the floor instead of standing upright, and the light was no longer colored the right color. It was just white. When I started rotating the brace upright, the light object (Remember I went with a single 6" thick light object instead of two different panels) from one side appeared to be gone. From the other side it looked correct. This was something I got wrong before but I thought I had corrected for that. Also, even though I build the light from the automatic floor control, it doesn't quite fit right into the frame. There's some overlap on one end and it causes this odd static looking distortion when I'm moving it or looking at it from different angles. Also, I think I jumped the gun on something. I selected the two brace files that were old but there was no way at all to delete them. I tried with the furniture library editor and I thought I had deleted their libraries, but those copies are still in the Sweet Home program and I don't know how to get them out of there. You can probably see them on the far left of a few of the pics I'm sending. At this point, my head is swimming. I'm going to take a break. Below is a new link with my latest files and pics. Maybe you could take a look and see if you can see where I went wrong again? My final combined obj. file is called 'Structural Brace & light'. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/48u4rxd53i3vw2...&st=cs5d5n5m&dl=0 |
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