Porch screens

[Don@Black Dog]

I am trying to do a screened in porch. Any ideas on how to do screens? Possibly a costom window? or draw all the framing and extrude a poly line for the panels, give it a texture? Thanks!

[Guest]

I actually have a screen texture that I created. If you want, send me and email and I can send you the texture.

I basically used the mesh shader along with a grid transparency to get the look of a screen.

It took quite a bit of time to create. Unless you are bored and really want to create it yourself, I suggest starting from my texture and then editing it to what you want.

[Don@Black Dog]

Thanks! How do you apply it? Same as other textures?

[Guest]

Yep. You can even use it for window panes and the leaf of a door using the various class settings.

[islandmon]

Recently, we were asked to design an Aviary enclosure for the local Marine Park. After much experimentation... including scanning and creating a texture exactly matching the 3/8" S/S Phantom Mesh wire fabric...the end result was controlled entirely by the output DPI . The most basic 'faux' mesh texture was equally effective as the most complicated 'exact' scanned Phantom Mesh texture at the 300dpi used for rendering & printing the preliminary designs.

Matching the useable bitmap 'bandwidth' to the information saves wasted time & resources.

Preliminary Conceptual Designs:

http://www.fractalnet.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=55

[Michael_Eschenbach]

katie,

I am a working designer in Florida where screens are a must.... could you please send me a copy of your screen doodaa..... thanks for hosting the site

best regards

[Guest]

MIchael,

Sure, send an email to katie@nemetschek.net requesting the texture.