I had a previous version with no skirting but it looked to bare (ha). I might try lightening it as you suggested, though, as it doesnt look right at the moment.

yeah ill adjust em lata.....did i mention im working on a wabash dry van trailer too....gonna post pics of that soon too...hopefully ull like that..it needs air brakes and all the works...but has axles...yet but everything else is pretty much done ...its 1.58 MB

and this is made on sketchup? wow! nice!

that's amazing work ! i wonder that how long did u made that model ?

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nah bro they smaller than the air cleaners, but i guess they are a little big..i've had about people tell me that...so i might make em smaller then..but it is a custom truck so i thought they would be appropriate for that purpose, but thanks glad u like it.

Richard, the trees have been the focus on a couple of posts lately, but in this case...well, here's my site: [image: swFp_easthavenarial.jpg]

really really nice.... as brodie said, fix up some textures and these would be great... the shingle textures are what's bugging me....the grass and roads kind of fit the image, in my eyes. vegetation is awesome! i really need to try onyx.....and the maxwell proxies...i think i tried it once and couldnt get it to work and never went back..haha... great job

can I say something? I can? Part of modeling I see very well, probably should have increased the number of sides in the circle because the roof is faceted (as said DzineTech) Add anything else on the scene to give it more life, this all that much empty space, maybe pictures or things like that. add some bump to the floor, because it seems like a single piece of wood, I might have to have some separation as boards or something. shadows are very hard, perhaps by increasing the radius of the sun are somewhat more diffuse and more real. but I want to stress that in general terms is a very good picture and I like the style of the space.

Very good visual here very good, not much wrong with this one buddy Just a quick question if you have time, how do you model your ridge tiles ?

@unknownuser said: very good! but is or not vray for sketchup? Thanks, Giuseppe! Yes, I am using Vray but it is not the latest version and I therefore can't use certain .vismat materials due to version incompatibility.

Ramy these really are amazing renders! Would never have thought they were done with Mentalray! My only suggestion and looking at the indoor pool at home here - where you have any light coming into the enclosure one would normally see some caustics at least at the bottom and sides of the pool. These can easily be added to the pool textures to do a great job at faking the effect!

Gracias miguel, el che pibe... te salio como todo un argentino!

@tomsdesk said: Richard, mainly showcasing the trees I suppose...though not as blatantly as here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=17149 Hope you can help out with the render app conundrum. Good luck with that Tom. I think for rendering they probably lack a bit of detail and are a bit flat, the ones that Kwistenbeibel made up with my old "Tree Factory" are probably about as light on as you could go for rendering. Cutouts can work if you have a great enough collection of very high res maps that show a variety of shadow casts, though these are often better added post processing. Just fo shadow casting (hidden to the camera) these are probably fine though even a fairly simple cut out works well for those! Though someone will possibly prove me wrong! Though I've got a massive collection of 3d skp trees and pretty much no matter how good they are they still produce pretty poor results in renderings palm trees aside! Though probably 90% of work is done for areas that palm trees are only seen in James Bond movies! Good wishes with this project mate!

That's cool. My four year old son enjoys drawing with SketchUp, too. The other day he was working on my second computer. Supposed to be drawing a train layout in Xtrkcad but he'd gotten SketchUp open and had drawn a snowman in 3D.

Thanks Guys. I can take no credit for the design I'm afraid. The way it works is that the competing teams or the GLXP organisers send me sketches, engineering drawings, or sometimes just written descriptions of the proposed designs, which I then interpret into something that is (hopefully) visually appealing. This usually means I have a little room for interpretation. In practice this means that often the models are fairly simple (see the clay render below, often built only to be viewed from one camera angle, and I can then fake quite a lot with some half-decent texturing and lighting! The GLXP is still at quite an early stage, so most designs are still fairly conceptual - although I suspect a couple of teams are close to producing flight-ready hardware. [image: TJZF_glxpaoccsml.jpg]

Truely amazing modeling. Nice and clean mesh ...and amazing detailing. Well done!

Thanks for the comments. I will post here some books when they are optimized. Best Regards, Luis

OK I wont be posting many more renders here for a while though I thought id share this, [image: untitled75.jpg] you can see it bigger on my deviant art website at http://troopermanaic.deviantart.com/

sort of a peeve of mine i guess: dof - depth of field translates to how much of an image is in focus. It's not an effect like flare or motion blur. if your dof is 8', that means there's a zone in the scene which is 8' deep and in focus.. (this rendering probably has a dof of ~25' which begins near the furthest mat and extends outside) we're seeing the same thing but in writing it would say something like "there's not enough dof here.. the dof is too shallow.. etc." con't