Warren, Thanks so much for the kind feedback. Helpful and much appreciated. I was checking out DesignShare's 2007 new school design awards and found this school using curved green roofs which supports your comment about topography and viewing...and in this case, use. In my blissful naivete I'm not so concerned about the drainage as the structural viability of the roof concept. I've played around some with analog models of triangulated irregular networks (TINs) and believe that a very light roof may be possible using a TIN framework overlaid/integrated with a layer of reinforced plastic foam. I have a project on the Open Architecture Network site that presents this concept in more detail. I think if the roof structural concept proved viable the drainage issues could be managed. Following is an image of the layers I think would be necessary in a roof of this type. From the top down (vegetation, soil, rubber membrane, reinforced foam, interior membrane). [image: House%202.0%20-%20Draft%205.jpg] Thanks again, Fred

Also you can insert an infinite plane in Kerky so that your model does not seem to be floating in open space. Otherwise getting really nice, indeed.

Hi Tim, that's a nice result actually! Glad you managed to finish it!

ps. thanks Fred - your stuff on here is by far the most interesting - keep it up. Except that leaf thing. hehehehehe.

Like Kris said, I don't use Layout at all. James, it is possible, and I do it all the time, to place an image just outside the building in the SketchUp model. No need for Photoshop. See attached. Edit: I know the perspective is all off, this is just a quick example. [image: Image-Model.jpg] And here is the skippy, the skipalator, the skipster, the skip monster, the skippenator, the... ok I'll stop. Download SketchUp Model

@jeff jacobs said: @tim danaher said: Jeff -- You forgot the most important thing about the modo-SU import plug-in: they charge $99 for it... Tim, You never looked better! As for the the 99 bucks, yea I don't WANT to pay for it, but if it saves a lot of time then I don't mind. Forceps delivery. What can you do, huh? As an aside, I recently had a look at Microspot Interiors Pro...this small firm has added native .skp import to the program (for free), and it works flawlessly...everything comes in just as it should, even my largest models. Why can't a slick organisation line Luxology get this right? And Martin is looking into adding native .skp support for Cheetah, now that the SDK is freely available. An .skp in a Smart Folder...how cool would that be?

Who is this "poly" everyone keeps talking about? I've never seen her post her before.... Great work guys! Enjoying the thread. ...still waters, run deep.... Tina Anne Stiles, ASAI Quality Digital Watercolor Architectural Illustrations

Thanks a lot for the compliment, Bill.. and of course I don't mind jenujacob

I don't mind Whaat. Fire away! I just had two margaritas and a chilles rellenos at Panchos in Vancouver, it's BC Day weekend, and our hotel overlooks the English Bay and the fireworks that begin in 3 hours! Two hours and one thread. Not bad Whaat. Keep em coming. I've always liked the look of Indigo renders, but I'm on a mac and haven't even loaded up a Bootcamp Widoze yet or I'd give it a whirl. Try to get the aluminum mullions more "aluminumy" and the floor needs a bit of a sheen. The radiosity must of been up high becuase you have a lot of bounce color in the ceiling. I would like to see more.

The atmosphere on these is really cool. I can actually hear Miles Davis or Sade in the background. Lounging with a glass of wine after a long day watching the mood lighting change colors randomly. All the while hearing the intermittent horn or siren in the background, the city night winding up.

fine fine..i will scale everything up REVI21ON visualization Report this post

Whaat, That's still insane! Very Happy

theres a bunch of sky ones here: http://www.evermotion.org/index.php?unf%20...%20=exclusive and there are a couple good interior ones here: http://www.hdrimaps.com/downloads.html should be enough to get you started! Report this post

Thanks for the comments guys and gals! They are all taken much into appreciation. I had one day to do this image, the model was mostly done for me in CAD (just an import and cleanup in SU) I think it may have taken me 6 hours start to finish? (this is mostly Photoshop) also due to the time constraint, that is why there is no detail to the materials on the building. I needed the render in a matter of minutes, so kept the KT work to a minimum. regarding the trees... I got in trouble for this one. There are actually no trees on site. There is nothing there but concrete and an oil refinery, but I thought I would slip those in and try to get away with that, because I find landscaping much easier on the eyes than dump trucks the size of houses filled with oilsand... anyways, thank you everyone!

Thanks for the comment,still working around this program Rgds Tom Posted by - Tom Yong

and one more update, with a few minor client-requested updates.. [image: lagoonloftskitchen01170om5.jpg]

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Thx to all. Background was post processed in ps where i added the smoke. Tomdesk love your renders, we are from the same school. me being 50.

i think one important thing is having ideal . my ideal city is called utosfi(a) and waitng for urs... . better world it would be

yes you have reason this renders are only of probe, i`m make with low (photons 2000 and ray 200) definition for out more fast, but out very nice and upload here.