Key Hole

Salem2007

Does anyone know of a door prop with a key hole that you can "look through"? I can scale it up, but I'm having a hard time finding one with an actual "hole".

Thanks in advance....

Cybersox

Maclean's jail doors have keyholes you can see through. Of course, the doors are made of iron bars, not wood, so that may be of limited use unless you just need a closeup of a keyhole. A lot of Jack Tomalin's models have modeled keyholes, but there's solid door between them. In all honesty, it's probably cheaper and easier to just render a scene twice, once with and once without the door in place, then put the two versions together in photo.

WendyLuvsCatz

map a plane with a door image with an opacity channel?

kyoto kid

...I wonder if there are any 2D masks you could superimpose in postwork.

Stargazey

If you want to do it in postwork - this wasdone in PS (in about a minute!) using a selection on a layer, but you could also use a shape.
If you need more detail it should be fairly easy to get hold of an image of a door/lock and cut out the hole, then combine in PS or some other image editor.

Coon Ra

Why do you need a full door? Wouldn't that be enough to use just a keyhole? Here is a simple obj model with simle projected uv map of doublesided keyhole with beveled edges. Import in DS or Poser and scale to your needs. Assign any metal shader/material. For better result use camera DOF.
http://rusfolder.com/39641906
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Salem2007

Thanks for the responses! I'm trying to render a shaft of light through the key hole...I may be able to do that with post work. I tried using a key hole shaped opacity, but I wasn't having much luck. I appreciate you guys taking time ot offer some suggestions....

Coon Ra--I'll take a look at your model tonight.

Thanks again!