@marked001 said: the only thing that bugs me is the color of the door...and it probably wouldnt if it wasnt the default color in sketchup....haha.... i now cringe whenever i see that color in any model! lol. Comes to show how people's tastes differ: I actually made a 'real' Vray mat out of that color (so I could add reflection, as the default mat renders diffuse). Love that color! @honoluludesktop said: No limitations on creativity, or art. Just find the right school, or person to study under. I see your point, I think. Still, architecture would be the wrong choice for me. I am interested in architectural forms for reasons that are solely artistic. Also, at the end of the day, there's simply not that many clients who'd allow their architect to push it as far as, say, Gregor Schneider does. Believe me, I pondered upon this prior to my studies, as well as afterwards, and while I deeply love architecture, there is simply no way I could be content being an architect.

Pues eso! Final render Sí background [image: 3700268079_e9f32eae2a_o.jpg]

I used to have several (or at least the demo version of); Indigo, Kerkythea, Irender, and I think one more that I can't remember. I got rid of them all except for Kerkythea. They all had something that was particularly good about them, one was fast, another let you do lots of work in Sketchup which made texturing easier, one had advanced texturing capabilities but was very slow - but Kerkythea has the best of all worlds as far as free renderers go, so it didn't make sense to concentrate on more than one renderer. I'm sure folks with paid-for render apps like Vray and Maxwell will have different reasons.

i c i c thanks man! ill surely look into it!

As I repeatedly say as long as the client likes it, it is a sucess! we often look at things thru a different prism than our clients, we get overly picky and all the while it still is going to blow the client away ... beautiful image and great render, and you got paid, even better!

Before start the renders: [image: 3705861781_c016660d0b_o.jpg]

Great job Edson.

much much more coming. right now I'm cleaning up the parts and redesigning some. hopefully I'll have more to post soon watch this space..

Allright, there are the styles: [image: 3703076379_fb83165f8d_o.jpg]

Nothing new for the moment..

AWESOME work.

Very interesting. I like it.

Very, very nice, Eric. Hmmmmm, wonder how that entry porch would look with some rain chains on it?

it might be nice to see the river, if you modelled it/have a pic... more reference around the building would be good too, cityscape maybe?

good stuff, but i think the view of your 2nd render doesn't match the first. it seems that you're standing in the middle of the road, but you've included loads of vegetation as if you're looking through shrubbery

loving the sunbeams! has to be post proc, no render plugin for skp does volumentric lighting like that i dont think

oh its just 3ds format, sketchup pro already exports as that anyway. I thought you where using SU formats, yeah 3ds is industry standard pretty much for games mods.

These, with the girl in the foreground are my favorites. I will have a look at the bar by time.

VRay Render without background: [image: 3698790576_252b257951_o.jpg] With background: [image: 3697981135_ded2d94e7c_o.jpg]

@sir said: the sides don't really match each other, there are gaps at the corners... Yes, this was an old model!