pic: Final Render 2012

[crazyStone]

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[Navid Shafa]

I'm not sure if you noticed, but half of your wheels and lower part of your drive base is cut off due to the ground plane. I recommend constraining everything independent of the ground plane. After you add the wheels, tangent constrain them to the ground plane with an offset for more visual appeal and less "robot loss".

[Sb28000]

From my limited experience with CAD/rendering (I am a little over midway through a high school class that teaches Inventor), it looks very nice. Is there any way you could add your team numbers to your bumpers for that extra little touch of realism? Very impressive though, nice work.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

I'm not sure if you noticed, but half of your wheels and lower part of your drive base is cut off due to the ground plane. I recommend constraining everything independent of the ground plane. After you add the wheels, tangent constrain them to the ground plane with an offset for more visual appeal and less "robot loss".

That looks less like a shiny floor and more like a..........WATER GAME!

Seriously, awesome CAD render, thanks for sharing that.

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

That looks less like a shiny floor and more like a..........WATER GAME!

Oh Don....

[crazyStone]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

I'm not sure if you noticed, but half of your wheels and lower part of your drive base is cut off due to the ground plane. I recommend constraining everything independent of the ground plane. After you add the wheels, tangent constrain them to the ground plane with an offset for more visual appeal and less "robot loss".

The ground plane is actually 1/2" below the wheels, due the physical configuration of our robot you can't see them and the reason you see the reflection is that it's a shiny ground plane. If the bottom of the drivetrain were cut off you wouldn't be able to see the full reflection of the wheels etc.

Ahh the infamous team numbers, we have a very good person on our team in charge of graphics, and the issue is, our team number is "mountain dew" font, somehow years ago they got it. Anyhow the graphics person said we could only use that font, and it's saved in a particular image style and when I went to import it into the sketch the transparent background surrounding the letters is turning gray, and they will not allow me to use any other font in native autodesk to emboss the number. And hence why there are no team numbers, currently.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by crazyStone

The ground plane is actually 1/2" below the wheels..."

Over the past few years CADing in Inventor, I've ran into the same problem before. I guarantee that in the process of rendering, you lost part of your robot beneath the reflection plane. I understand if you left it the way you did for visual purposes. Just pointing out that you may want to consider offsetting the robot from whatever plane you based the reflection rendering off to avoid this.