Cheers Richard, no i haven't ever used the shift lens feature, sometimes i use the 2 point perspective camera in sketch up though.

Mine doesn't slow down ever, there was one time I tried to load 20 floors of fully furnished apartments into a high-rise and it froze for 5 minutes but the floors loaded and rendered after the freeze.

Looks like a photograph. Are you pulling our collective leg?

@rich o brien said: Some SU output would be nice too Here's some more SU output... [image: mB8x_Nimbus1.png] [image: VkNw_Nimbus2.png] [image: Epy7_Nimbus3.png]

This is a high school project? That's impressive! Great job!

Adam, In regards to your inquiry, I'd have to say that Artisan is the best choice for smoothing out the curves you already have. There's a bit of a learning curve, and a small price tag, but the results could be stunning. In the future, you can adjust the amount of segments SU uses to draw curves in the user interface. When you first hit the circle or arc command, look at the box at the bottom of the screen and it should tell you how many segments you are drawing with, you can increase or decrease them to suit. I've been away from Podium for too long to offer much advice with the renders, and many here have better opinions on what to use for a rendering software. I personally use Twilight because the price is right for the amount of options you get, but I'm seriously looking at Thea these days... Cheers!

Thank you for the gift. Very nice work and will water and make it grow properly. dtr

This is a nice little tutorial. Thanks, very nice approach.

It looks good. I like it.

Hey mate, nice job! I think though there is some miss match of the amount of illumination of the sky v's upon the facade of the building. One thing I would say and we all do it. We strive for realism without enough consideration toward what the image is to do - sell the proposal. Whether it be for marketing OR for planning we are still trying to sell, therefore would a little more light flooding the view of the facade give a better impression? I'd say this regarding the camera angle chosen too, could it be more dramatic rather than showing all?

That is fantastic quality rendering, please don't make it your LAST render in Vray for Sketchup

Very nice!

I think I like the first one best, still. The shoreline and water are nicer in the last.. but the viewpoint is better in the first. That super-saturated sky is hurting the latest one too.

All works are from Lumion with Lumion effects! Wery simple , easy and fast!

On this last concept serial reflexions are curious : seems destructured! they don't help to define the forms!

straight SU output???? wow I feel myself like this & like this , best V

ATLAStudio, thanks for your comments! I agree about the walls but the exterior white walls actually have very subtle imperfections which are more noticeable in the WIP thread images http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=48884, weather here in southern Sweden must be not so different to yours in Scotland the pendant light was modeled by me, it is agnes chandelier designed by Lindsey Adelman http://lindseyadelman.com/lighting.php?item=214 Bryan, thanks man for your kind comment! Adorno, much appreciated for your suggestion... I just read this comment from Jason Maranto in another thread: "I've seen plenty of nice interiors using just Physical Sky or HDR only, and it will be just fine, but add a emitter to the interior and you are asking for noise that may not resolve until very high SL." my mistake is having a sun light + physical sky + 10 emitters + 2 IES... thanks guys best V

Great work Joe.

Thanks Elisei, that helped very much

The last night image is excellent sea bass.