3d People

[ChadL]

I am tired of doing really good renderings and then dropping in crappy looking people. Does anyone know where I can find good people symbols? Ideally I'm looking for high res/low poly people.

[rcandsb]

Chad-

I've been using the 3d people from Got3d.com. Closeup Vectorworks renders them faceted, and I haven't been able to smooth the polygons, but from a distance, or heavily lit close up they are useful for quick project illustrations.

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[propstuff]

try this thread

http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=158637&Searchpage=1&Main=32171&Words=propstuff+mesh&Search=true#Post158637

Edited December 5, 2011 by propstuff

[rcandsb]

Thanks, I have tried those smoothing techniques, with no luck. As soon as I make any changes to the figures, they lose their uvw texture mapping, with no way to restore it. As far as I can tell, Vectorworks doesn't support uvw mapping, so I don't even understand how the figures maintain their texture mapping when imported.

[Tom Klaber]

Image props is really the way to go. Way lighter and if prepared correctly - they look great.

[greenartichoke]

Sorry Tom, disagree.

What you are saying is that RW is just not a high end renderer.

You cannot get the subtlety of lighting around a curved face etc. etc. without using full 3D images.

Greenartichoke