A Work in Progress: Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13



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i started off with a chamfer box gave it smooth edges punch a few holes in it and got a idea to make a pc

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 1

step 2 of 15

now that i have a PC in mind i made a CD drive. not the best in the world but its not that bad. i used the circle tool in shapes to create it and gave it volume. them cloned it made it smaller to Boolean the bigger one giving it a smooth finish

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 2

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now for the speakers . probably the simplest thing to do. made a cone , flipped it and gave the edge a lip then created cylinders to punch 5 holes in the lip in a circle like screws.

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 3

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now for the vents. i may sound strange but this was not easy. for my first time making vents this small. i was working with high poly geometry. pulling one side of one face of the poly to a angle. one there. the shell modify tool is your best friend. it will come in handy later for the volume lights to work

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 4

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this is the turbo smooth applied to it and i decided to put a random object behind the vent that would barely be seen. the helix would work perfectly

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 5

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make sure the helix goes from front to back. as it will have a vray light mesh

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 6

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put a ball in the cone and select the inner cone part bust above the ball and detach as element. this will have a glow material as well

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 7

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the power button is simple make a cylinder and delete the parts that are inside except the inner circle

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 8

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the cord was a line and i gave it depth and adaptive smoothing

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 9

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now for the volume lights i was using a plugin scatter pro 1A i used standard lights and applied the effect then changed the color and the step size is 50 a easy way to use volume light with out using the sun every time

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 10

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i used the vray floor

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 11

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now i put every thing togeather

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 12

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the floor texture and added noise and a little color

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 13

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i made this myself in photoshop with a plugin ndo2 and used it as a bump map

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this was it

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Step 15

Final result

Creation of Custom Sound-bar PC 9X13: Final Result

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avatar wazowski
wazowski says:

Good explanation

(5 years and 2403 days ago)