Adam, the last one it's gorgeous! It has everything, photo-real look, artistic teouch...awesome! Congratulations!

Not water...just the sub-terranean end of a hemispherical sky: cool base for the render, huh? :`) That said, thanks all for the response and kind words...I'm quite pleased with the range of likes (and several of you are even spot on with my triggers, thank goodness).

wow jim, what a poetic scene...or maybe i'm looking too far into it!

wow. this is inspiring! i want to build something now!

please can you do a higher res clock (i understand why it is small). its amazing.

first off, good work. I am thinking that the pavement in the first image would actually be lighter where it is worn out from use and darker where not used as much- perhaps the opposite of what you currently show?

great work as always! nice photomatch without using Photomatch

Hi imabzeous The materials are very dark so they reflect light poorly. I tried a quick render in Kerkythea with much the same results as Podium. A lot of faces are also reversed but I don't think that adds to the problem really. Maybe you can up the ambient light a bit to make thing lighter. Regards Andre

did someone say dali? [image: blobs_of_doom_dali.jpg]

I don't use photoshop much, I used Picasa, which is free, and very self explanatory. http://picasa.google.com/ Good Luck!

Very cool choice for your first post!

Wow, one of the most dramatic differences between Sketchup input and render output I've ever seen! It reminds me of comparing screenshots from an Atari to a PS3. -Brodie

haha nice profile pic lol twisted sketchup user

wow, Eulgrand . I like both, especially the second one.

Good luck Richard. I didn't take you for the lying type Hope you do well, -Brodie

Pete, It's awesome... , You and Twilight...

@jenujacob said: holy crap... pilou... U really need to clean up that desktop! You go, Pilou. My desktop is 80% populated.

Nice render, lighting. Bones need some texture though and here comes trouble. Egyptian writing? Here's some help. [image: Nbix_egypt01.jpg]

@pibuz said: Hi Dylan! The floor tiles you show in the first render are amazing: how did you do that? I simply drew around them and push pulled! It took me about 20 mins at a guess. What I did was applied floor texture in SU. I right clicked and chose texture/position. I then drew a square on my texture, the size of the box shown when you edit the texture (where the 4 pins are) I knew from here I could hopefully seamlessly tile it. Next I used the freehand pencil tool and in plan view quickly drew around each individual cobble in the square. Once all were traced, I push pulled 10mm. Some of them I used round edges on at 2mm, but I only randomly did this on maybe about a third. Finally I hid the lines at the edge of the stone cobbles, then created a component. With this component I scaled it to the size I wanted, then simply copied it along to fill the room. The image above was 6 components. A couple of images may show it better: It probably sounds more complicated than it actually was. It was simply a quick brainwave and it worked first attempt. [image: j0bp_CobbleClose.jpg] [image: BfyD_FloorComponent.jpg]

Merci michaliszissiou