Absolutely Fabulous, Mike
Al Klagge
Teton Timberframe

x-ray viewvector view[quote="jolran"]Interresting topic.

I noticed something perculiar last week.
I got the impression LO is slow when number of objects increase, regardless of meshdensity.
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I have found the same result ... when I delete multiple copies of the model (or duplicate portions of it that were set up separately just for clarity or convience) Layout speed increases, but as Sonder has noted going to 1 page per file really speeds up the processing and updating.
Also the clearest results are definitely with vector graphics, but I have to use raster if x-ray is a part of the scene (i.e., joinery within a timber). I will see if I can find some examples and attach to a following email. See also this topic for other examples of my recreational work: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=39961.

Thanks Peter. I would be honored to make the "best" list ...

To Sonder: I second Pbacot's request for some examples of detail and Tell me, do you experience any glacially slow periods at the Laying-out stage with Layout? I have found that with very large files I need to break them into parts to keep from bogging down in Layout ...
Thanks

My God! Did you model the whole city? This is quite nice modeling work and inspires me to seek the next goal. How large is your file? Or is it several files? I wanted to do Mount Saint Michelle, but thought the level of detail needed would prohibit it. No? I did a Gothic cathedral - see: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=39961 and that file ended up about 60 MB - interior and exterior combined. So if you have suggestions to reduce file size, I am interested in them, please.
Thanks for sharing ...

"...in honor of you. can you please make one choice. we will name it Author Al Klagge's choice. so please tell me which one you like most.

Nomer"

This is very difficult as so many are deserving of special note: but I choose this imaginative rendering by Mendra Ha:

@nomeradona said:

TOP 12 for our Sketchup Vray artists October Challenge using this GOthic Cathedral

http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2011/11/sva-october-challenge-top-12. html

Nomer these are just fantastic and I would like to ask permission to upload all 50 to the Picassa web site I used for my renderings in a folder "Renderings by Others" and give credit to each (and the link as well). Is this OK?
Good work everyone.

@tomislavm said:

My God,how long did You need to render this movie?
Is there any suggestion for that render?

First answer: set it up and go on vacation while it renders. Actually took about 2-1/2 days because it hung about 2/3 of the way through and I had to start and splice from there to finish.
Second answer: I deffinitely suggest not using approximation of "tween" frames, which is one of the options of Kerky animation - while it probably saves time, you get that blinking of transmitted light on and off seen in the video. I used PM medium AA for the renderings which seems good enough for the video mode. Used Virtual Dub (free) for the assembly and recommend you study the "frame ripping" info to avoid the horizontal tearing of image frames I sometimes got. It is a conflict between the different scan rates (I think) of the movie and crt/computer/other devices).There are also plug-ins you can activate as filters on the raw images and advise figuring out how to activate them as one of them allows contrast/brightness adjustment and many others I know nothing about.
I know this sure as hell beats Sketchup's native animation feature for smoothness and AA function. And lastly the use of key-frames is useful for editing out stuff. I didn't use it and got the frame jumps twice when I removed unwanted frames and spliced.
Like I said before, this is my first real attempt at movie making and may we all learn from it.
Thanks for the input.

Massimo
Thanks for the heads-up. The URL has been corrected as has the version (I checked this time in the "Model info" dialog). Good rendering to you ...

Recently I realized that not everyone uses version 8 Sketchup and could not use the available downloading option. I have corrected the omission and here is the link to download a version 7 .skp file of the complete cathedral. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40864073/v7%20Gothic%20Cathedral%20clean.skp Also Nomeradona informs me he is using this model for the October Challenge of his Sketchup-Vray Facebook group and we shall post the "winners and runners-up" here as well.

EDIT:10/20/11
the above link IS NOW version 7.skp