the last images have defenitely something of a game environment - very atmospheric and well textured! yahoo will be happy

It's not that serious but it's just a personal preference of mine, I think the yellow trees is taking all the attention away from the house which is I think is the focus of your illustration. What I see here is that your aiming on a more artistic style, is that right? gian

Thanks Nick... I did mean to lighten the bottom but it totally slipped my mind. I'll get that done soon!

I prefer the building with the newly added screens - thus the two shapes seem more united and the building is much more integrated in the sculpture. Fred, you should seriously consider going into rendering! I think the building-sculpture would be much more pronounced in it's depth (through indirect lighting, shadowed corners...) surely you would produce some stunning results

@lapx said: You should seriouly consider writing a book on technique etc... oh yes - a book for "pros" to get a step closer to SketchUp Godhood! Solo, you are the Architect... and SketchUp is the Matrix!

hi kwistenbiebel if I bright a little bit more the image, window is too similar to a mirror and it's not so realistic. hi johnsenior1973 @unknownuser said: I don't understand why you positioned the image like that though. I've tried an aluminum material on the rod and I wanted to see how it was rendered. I am happy with the result. Thanks for feedback

@unknownuser said: I thought your talents were just in the area of 'picking the right horse' and 'money management'. Eh well de fact of de matter Mike, is dat i actually did legitimately come into possession of numerous amounts of moneys from my transactions with de horses. @unknownuser said: Anyway, welcome to SketchUcation, great work Thankin you very much, Bertie

@igor said: ...sorry to all the 38 year olds for making you feel old... I can't even remember that age

You can find good discount on CS2 books at borders and such since they are outdated. Many of the tutorials at lynda will work for cs2 as well unless they are specific to a feature in cs3. It is work the small monthly fee for the wealth of information they have there. Scott

Very nice indeed. I could see that being framed in an office anywhere. Scott

Was sorry very much that I did not know how to quote the video frequency code to our forum, was sorry very much.

@daniel said: Looks great, Edson. In my pickiness, have two comments for what they're worth: On the horizontal boards, you might want to shift the textures on some, maybe even rotate 180 degrees, so they don't look like clones. Wouldn't that wood weather to a gray over time? It appears very orange on my computer. i agree with with your comments. ideally i would have addressed those problems earlier but as i am a newbie at this i left some refinements to do later. my main goal at this point is to get the lighting right, then comes texturing.

Thanks for the feedback guys - great suggestions! As I intend to use this method again - I will likely work on a whole library of WC tree variations with more coordinated and seasonal colors. Nick - I really like the edges suggestion. That could be a big difference in a series of images like this when viewed together. While there is not s much control as other methods - to be able to quickly crank this type of output straight from SU with styles is very cool! Bytor

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Thanks, tomislavm..!! I'm sure that some will try to use it and render their own underwater scene...

Max,ya beat me to it. I have one too.

Nice building, clean model!

Perfect, good idea, 10 points!

and here is the full image of the living room. mty friend told me to changed the background image to seaside as this iamge fits more on that kind of environment. [image: redpallettejs4.png]

Good point Olli, I obviously overlooked that Shame about your graphics card problem. It has happened to quite a few members here. Unless people have read about the problems of some ATI cards with SU, you would certainly expect them to work fine. Nvidia is definately a better performer with SU, although some of these cards still have problems.