@garystan said:

Dave R. :

In other words, I should've used softer, more-angled light. Correct ? garystan

In other words, you should have used light more consistent with low sunlight. The shadows should be a little softer, that brick wall and windows should be reflecting some light back into the scene. The light should be lower as I said before. It should probably be a bit warmer considering how low the sun is in the background image. It's pretty simple to figure out where the light source in your render. You should be able to draw lines from corners on the shadows through the corners on the furniture casting the shadows and to the sun. The rays from the sun are, for practical purposes, parallel so the edges of the shadows of the furniture should be parallel not splaying out as the distance from the furniture increases. All very basic lighting stuff.

@hellnbak said:

Really nice work! Those are colors I might have chosen for my own home.

Needs a big ashtray on the coffee table though 😉

Yeah, I know - not "PC", but what is nowdays 😒

Thanks! That colour palette is so awesome and would appeal to both males and females alike. Win-win! Come on now, an ashtray would never be factored into the styling of an interior (although, worst case scenario, the tea-light holders could be used if one was 'caught out')!!

Thanks mate, I would like to fix the windscreen but that looks unlikely now.

These are really great and near to the reality
M.

oh, yeah, sorry about that... i had to take them off, because of the background i used in PS

Welp, there goes any confidence I had in my own SketchUp abilities. 😞

Absolutely masterful work.

really good stuff! congrats!

@gareth said:

Let me know if you need some contacts in Adelaide

Thanks mate, I may well take you up on that once I've got the whole concept better documented.

house looks damn perfect.. too perfect!
some better foreground grass in there and you'd really nail it.

yeah...which one's which? If you had some light through from those sign lights, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

Thanks!

Wow. 😲

...Photoshop will help us....
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Impressive model! 👍

Very cool!

Very cool, but I'm not clear on how the doors open.

@pbacot said:

Adam,

Thanks for the demos. I am not sure what the answer would be as to whether I'd like the results in Lightup. I have to try it again. It looks to me like the AO is too pronounced.
Peter

Peter, the amount of AO is controllable by a Multiplier, so you can tone it down, change the blend colors, change the blending with direct lights. Lots of control to get the look you want.

I turned it up to full whack just so you could see the difference of AO cutoff.

Truly stunning mate, the DOF is spot on for this shot!

Great job.
Looks like my Brewmaster ceiling fans from Form Fonts in there.

@imabzeous said:

i just went through your website and i was o.O
did u render those houses/models in Sketchup? like that Storage Qube, Inhabit, Qubeik and panelform images... those are amazing renders.. any tutorial or workflow please

Thanks mate! I'm a really LAZY renderer. I just use Maxwell pretty much straight out of the box, no materials other textures applied direct to the model, excepting I might use the lacquer preset in the plugin. I pretty much always render with skydome and sun on.

Do yourself a favor and download the free version for sketchup an hit render, that's about it!