That's it, excellent work pete, but I don't like this smart blur thing. Better be a friend than an enemy. lol But I really don't find this last one render friendly. What's happening in this house anyway?

Nice to see you trying other software, Olishea. I've used LightUp for some quick visualizations. It's good for small models if the client does not require photorealism and you need to create tons of images of the same model in very little time. A couple of my LightUp images (Second one composited in GIMP): [image: 0JQp_Stand_plasticos_011_lightup1.jpg] [image: qB9F_parrila_nato.jpg] For more complex stuff, I'll be using Twilight.

Just playing with ADCSee Pro, there is a lot of effect. I choose this one. Fred [image: d2lX_Bedroomeffect.jpg]

Dude i think your sky makes the image seem very unsettling. I mean you got quite strong sun and a stormy sky. it freaks me out!!

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I would post the file but it's very big. I'll make a reduced version with good layering. I'd be interested to see which app could render it the best. I know you can get better, more realistic results with other renderers but I don't have the time to learn anything else at the moment. Podium is very very fast. In that its totally integrated in sketchup and the workflow is very simple. This render only takes 10 minutes with sunlight and all omnis/bumps/reflections at full quality/anti-alias. I am sure the twilight render would look more real, but 90% of the time I do not require anything remotely photoreal. Sometimes you can give a client too much too early, thats my problem anyway. I would love to be a vray or vue guru but i dont have the time unfortunately. Some vray renders are just breathtaking. Thanks Biebel for your comments, your renders have inspired me to up my game. Yes the chairs do look heavyweight dont they, kinda like big toy chairs!! I agree they are too shiny but nothing that cant be sorted out. Brodie thanks for the link, i had problems accessing it too but I'll keep checking it out. cheers fymoro, i put a lot of effort into the details! but theres always room for more!

Impressive work.

Looks a bit weird, might have drunk too much this end!

@rob d said: Now I just have to find a spherical filter for the GIMP.[/attachment] Not sure a fuzzy border would be the ideal filter type! I've never tried gimp though would then suggest just transforming the wire frame layer - not sure now in Gimp though in PS its just a case of selecting all then selecting to transform or manually scale. Then scaling from the corner holding ctrl you can move the corners in or out. Either that or just nudge the layer off position just a bit. Really only trying to add some light secondary lines to random areas so it looked like you've done quick light rough out construction first! Mate if your keen to try some other techniques from SU, I'd love to see someone give this one a shot. Doesn't seem anyone has really thrown an attempt in the ring! http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=16807

@unknownuser said: btw im peterbilt1993 cuz i forgot my password to my acc and it doesnt work when i send it to my email... Let me know WHEN you like it (send a message from the "Registration / Login help" on the top right of the forum) and I can get you a new password. Then attribute these posts to your old account. Cool truck, by the way.

Much improved looking very good well done

You can run windows through vm ware. Most people I know with macs use this instead of parallels/boot camp etc. You don't know how much I want a mac pro. its a vicious machine.

very nice design&render... perfect

Its a great work Mr EarthMover I love it

I don't get it. On my Vista laptop, these images all look fine. No need to change any color space or anything. Must be a Mac only thing..? Now if Solo would have saved the images as CMYK I would totally understand it would look off. But they are RGB.....and pretty nice ones I think

Nice start... Looking forward to see some more...

I think freeagent just said it best. SU is just too quick and intuitive for me to replace it yet with max (if ever) for the core my models. For me, I work a lot off of CAD plans and elevations, and SU makes creating walls and such so easy and accurate. And navigation within your model feels more at your control with SU than max (that may just be my preference). I think that autodesk realizes the exact situation that we are discussing right now and that is why they created a script to directly import SU models in max 2010. Thanks Nomer, I am glad you like it. I hope to post some tips and tricks sometime soon on the ASGvis thread I had started a bit ago.

Thank you all for your comments! d12dozr : thanks for the advice, i'll try the things you said and see how the renders look like. Thanks you! solo: no, this is not a real project, this is an imaginary building i made, this was an effort in which i was trying to approach american architecture. I added the 'american airlines' logo, because i thought that it would fit perfect with the buildings appearance. Thank you very much for your comments!

I like the first one more. I see she talked her husband off the roof.

@escapeartist said: I put the diamond inside a cylinder, and then shrank the cylinder until the diamond's edge protruded a little outside of it. I made a 32-sided polygon, 20' radius and Push/Pulled it up a foot. Deleted 30 sides. Turned the axes so one face was in the rg plane, laid guides and drew lines. Ditto the other face. Last, grouped and used a moving/copying rotate to finish the girdle. A neat, Sunday-afternoon modeling hack. I'll be using this to decorate my UI in the other kind of ruby if I can ever finish fighting through the bugs. [image: sketchup_rubies_icon.gif] Now I've got a ruby, 40' around reduced to an 88x64 px icon.