Bianhai, Awesome.... Jack bird wild action. Truly a bit of a wild deal, I'm not sure why but it reminds me of something you cut out and fold. Durant "fish are not paper" Hapke

Here's another shot from the same render... Camera 2: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3286/camera2bloom1200copyji0.jpg

Dale..... New guy here. To forum anyway. Images look very professional for sure. Care to talk about your work flow? Any 2D/3D CAD work before importing into SU? I think I saw you are MAC platform? Do you export/import from ArchiCAD? And at what point do you leave SU...... and where do you take it for 2D presentation? I am outside Philadelphia, PA USA.

I'll start posting some "step-by-step" images that show my process beginning with a SketchUp model and ending with a drawing that combines a SketchUp view with hand drawn entourage. The results are quick to produce and amazing. Am glad you are interested.

that guy's models are sick sick sick..i love that one.. i think his screenname is elvis something... cool render too..

yep, they used a 1/2" cutting bit, and cut almost all the way thru in a couple of passes slow speed, then we brought them all back to the shop and hand routed the final pass to free the pieces. I was worried about the stock moving/warping after having such big curves cut out, but the old growth vertical grain stock didn't move a bit. nope haven't tried waterjetting yet, I'm pretty happy with the CNC work.

What Scott said

thanks for the comments and suggestions. scott: the theme of the shadows because the fuse is gentle so as not too oscurescan image. materials such as the wall is nothing more shiny for a slight feeling of rusticity nothing else. Matthew: The clarification with curves photoshop? thanks anyway, but is right james, are very strong

Your last seems like a Duchamp research Nu Descendant l'escalier

Loved them all up to the last one with the fireworks... Keep up the good work.

...no flies on me :`) Ithil, thanks a bunch and more! (I will use this till I wear it out!-) [image: Ytkm_shortbeach-wgrass.jpg]

nice clean renders... how about some transparency on the curtain walls?

Great looking renders. You need to be careful with the woodgrain textures on the lumber, though (rafter ends, window awning structures); it should be running the length of the boards.

Finally got approval and just got done burning the CD. I am not a fan of the lobby seating fabric but it is correct. Comments welcome. Scott Thanks for everyones input earlier. [image: xk6l_Scene1Medium.jpg] [image: Dm7Y_Scene2Medium.jpg] [image: 9EnS_Scene3Medium.jpg] [image: tpmO_Scene7Medium.jpg]

I can see that johnsenior, just put that there because i've got nothing better.

@eduardonl said: Setting are on preset no. 6 no. 17 takes a bit too long, can you recommend any other settings? Preset 6 is good, but it all depends on the complexity of your scene... Sometimes preset 6 will take much longer... Like I said... For an exterior scene like this, with only the sun to light it up, preset no. 17 is my preferred... Remember... Although it shows 10000 passes before it's finished, you can finish it at any stage and by experience you will learn that the scene usually is crisp and clean after 50-60 passes... If you insert som instanced Xfrog trees, I'm sure that preset 6 will take much longer compared to preset 17...

@igor said: hey, that last one looks great. the grass especialy, best ive ever seen. Nah! Personally, I like the grass in the first image I posted better, though it isn't displaced. De gustibus ... @igor said: i like the night scene slightly better. just so that you can use some more dramatic lighting As do I. The final render will be a night view. The control over lighting Maxwell offers, is the prime reason why I got the app (and the ridiculous amounts of RAM it needs).

EduardoNL, I've found that the stock textures that come in SU materials don't look very realistic and they get worse when they are tiled over a big area like your last building. I think it was Remus who pointed me to a really useful texture site (http://www.cgtextures.com/). For roofs and walls this is great. Also, I've begun to make up a libray of my own photo textures that I can use on different buildings. The other thing is to spend some time messing with the seamless tiling feature on you photo-editor to get the right effect for big areas. The issue is not that the texture IS acurate, it's that it LOOKs acurate. Tom

the first idea that jumps into my mind is to use SketchUp no, honestly. I would use your SU model, select all the top faces of the roof construction and look up the size of it in the entity info. then simply dra an overall shape arround the area and get its size. but that would only work if the sun came directly from above... so you will end up having more shadow than the mere top faces of your construction.

here there are 3 of 4 images that began earlier, these are rendered in Kerkythea, the image of the loft, the third, or maybe can not find the delete jajaja, greetings [image: 98008200vt5.th.jpg] [image: interiorterminado2chicakb1.th.jpg] [image: 15edificiofrente1kd6.th.jpg]