Got this interesting comment on these from one of my clients this morning: "It looks graphically good but it needs some torches, moss and lichen, and some signs of age, repairs, history, battleworn. Your castle looks like it is ready for final inspection, like it was made for a theme park…"

no I have have an educational license but asked to try the pro version because I noticed someone else did

Great, theses half-organic shapes. Well integrated buildings which extend Nature without Injuries . MALAISE

Should the signature block say "asembleas" instead of "asambleas"? By the way, first SU renders that don't look like SU are a good sign of great things to come.

Great work. Defiantly has a lot of mood in the image. I agree with bytor about the castle being a little too bright for the sky.

Thanks everyone. Ill try to write a little mini tutorial on my process this weekend.

not realy... I don't even know how to...

The first thing I notice here is that there's a few backfaces visible. What you see in SU isn't always what V-Ray renders. V-Ray doesn't take into account the custom default colours, so any material with default material will end up white-yellow-ish on the front, and blue on the back. For transparent material you want to place the materials on both sides. It'd help to judge the image is it was slightly larger and with not so much JPEG compression.

I was wondering, do you know a good place where I can get 3d people for free? Thanx for the comments

Nice space and nice light. I feel as if I have just come home for lunch

heres more updated pics! [image: miser1.png] [image: miser2.png] [image: miser3.png] [image: miser4.png]

I was playing with the most amazing bug model made by the extremely talented Urgen. I did something to the texture and the renderer went crazy, I really like the way this looks. (And I started to draw bugs. [image: zyXA_buggybug.jpg]

@puma said: It looks good but I think that the tank has too much reflection on the renders. A tank isn't supposed to have any reflections, I think, otherwise it would be visible. Yeah I know, but it looked like a toy without that bit of refelction for some reason. The refelction just helped set it down more in the environment. I think I should have given it some bump or roughness though. Thanks for comment anyway @malaise said: The second render is so close to a newspapers'picture, that I'm now convinced how easy we can be manipulate.... Very interesting topic.... MALAISE Thanks Malaise. yeah I wanted it to look like a World War 1 shot or something. I think its my favourite too

i did it by making making one triangle, copoying it, componenting the whole lot, copying it, componenting the whole lot etc. Components out of components as you put it.

yeah just email me and i can send you the settings. As for the file itself, I cant because its for my work and not my own. Sorry

Very helpful and interesting, thanks solo

@pbacot said: Good work! On the first image window image of the mountain. The angle of the camera shot gives the feel that the room is tilted upward. Here the mountain looks to be lower than the floor plane. Hi Pbacot! Thank's for your advice... I didn't think at the background when I positioned the camera I'll fix this up in my new render tiriki

wonderful as always

Hi fewdavid, and well done on those renders. I am considering Vray but have a problem with it's ability to work with landscaping since everything has to be either modelled or imported into SU if post-processing is to be avoided. However, the high polygon count for plans/trees/rocks etc makes Sketchup very slow and the model very large & clumsy. Could you give us an idea of where the workflow started in photoshop? Were only the buildings modelled in SU? So, unlike artlantis, Vray seems to require lots of post processing for external shots (from what I've seen there's absolutely nothing wrong with its abilty to deal with interior scenes I should add!) Thanks!

great renders..recently I made a KT maquette material pack , based on my sketchup material pack (http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=12210), and shared it over KT forum (material section) . and here r some render using this pack , hope u joy[image: DJ1o_1st-card-board_filtered.jpg][image: H86Z_scene-2-noice-redused.jpg][image: mVfP_scene-3-12-pass.jpg] and here is the material pack: http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=51551&d=1238624518 discusstion: http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/kerkythea/10610-simulation-physical-model-cardboard-wood-5.html cheers