[COMPLETE] Dads Pond

[MetKiller Joe]

Awesome. Congratulations on the completion of the digging phase.

[nick3d]

Yeah we got to have it cemented at the bottom then got to build the walls up from inside the pond, then got to back fill them with soil which is all over the place lol, weve moved about 80 tonnes of soil

[SnaFuBAR]

you don't use concrete for a pond...

[Chainsy]

Hm? He's adding soil on top from what I believe, and how would concrete hurt it? The ponds around here in Texas have brick and concrete walls.

[SnaFuBAR]

Brick and concrete raise the alkaline levels of the water, which, for the majority of decorative fish, is harmful.

[nick3d]

Errrm well...
We are having the concrete poured in next saturday, then we are building the walls up from the concrete, then we are having it fibreglassed. so does that answer your questions lol

E:
And plus they are japanese koi carp which are decorative

[Apoc4lypse]

bak at the thing about how to do stuff to scale... in 3dsmax its not hard to do but just annoying I guess, tedius in a way. I'd personally just use autocad to do this because itd be fast as hell... (30 mins at most probably less time). Auto cad isn't too hard to figure out, I took an intro class for it and all i needed to know was a few basics and the rest was pretty simple and simillar to max. Just setup to take exact messurements (which is why itd be easier and much faster in autocad, since its just a layout right)

If you want a 3d model Solid Works is definately better (never used this personally I dont have it), but you can make a 3d model in autocad its just one of those things, its more tedious because solid works is made for dealing with scale 3d models and autocad is just for scaled layouts mostly.

Each program is geared torwards different activities.


3dsmax - stuff that looks cool with some form of scaling, good for rendering and animating.

Maya - Same as max but I believe its better at animating and better for Uvm mapping as well as some plus's to its rendering capabilities.

AutoCad - Scale layouts and diagrams/blue prints, and in newer versions some 3d capabilities.

SolidWorks - Scale 3d models.

[nick3d]

i have always said that maya is better than 3ds :P

[Llama Juice]

I think the title of this thread is funny, considering the bulk of the images posted are of him working on the real pond.

[Chainsy]

Brick and concrete raise the alkaline levels of the water, which, for the majority of decorative fish, is harmful.

Oh ok, yeah, ponds here only have hardy fish, and there usually never large, like gold fish, though I did in a large canal by the city after a flood, the small damn/bridge went under water, which was concrete, and had concrete rocks with fencing around the shore to stop erosion, but anyways it went about a foot underwater, and as it receded the small walls to keep people from falling over created a small lake, trapping these 3 foot long fish, me and my dad grabbed some plastic bags (yay pollution actually saved some lives) and we hooked them with the bag and flung them into the water, sort of reminded me of discus.