@box said: Sorry for the off topic Richard, but a thread bump is always a good thing on good threads. All good mate, I completely forgot what the original thread was about once you mentioned BEER!

Can I have your boat? Christmas is just around the corner

Thanks Ken. All great suggestions and you are exactly right about the lighting and atmospherics. What you see right now was all done in SketchUp. I was testing the limits of SU. Here's what I did: The background is a watermark. WM is set as "background" and not "overlay" the fog isn't really fog, it's just the blend slider on the WM setting. Fog doesn't work with watermarks. The WM is what makes the bike shadow "off" the light beam is a rather dodgy square cone with transparent material the shadows really don't match quite right with the background due to SU's lighting limitations (I tried to pick a picture that was somewhat ambiguous for this reason) So yes, it definitely needs more work and I will eventually make the changes. This is my first experiment with backgrounds in SU. My first tries always look a little wonky. Again, thanks Ken. That is a very clear step by step process and I will have to try it. I have some other ideas as well that fit with the animation.

Excellent modeling, Lengyel. Have a wonderful weekend! _KN

Very cool, Rafal. Have a terrific weekend! _KN

Awesome modeling, texturing and rendering, Steve. Thanks for the story behind your model. Cheers! __KN

They look good to me!

@imabzeous said: I just dont know what i am doing, read this thread like 5 times but only one vray example that by nomerdona, and then saw oli and pete's twilight setting, so i did the same ( tried to ) but its really bad bad , please if any one can help You could always do like me - I don't render

Lawsuits? over what? how bad it made the neighbors look? I'd love to have that house built next to mine.

Cheers Bryan, PB.

@Jeff Well those sound like too kind words. Thank you. @Oli I don't agree with you.

lovely application of twilight, majid! keep up the stunning work!

I've made a small video with a walkthrough- animation out of that model: renderd with twilight/Kerkythea, cut with videomaker http://youtu.be/KgRvnarR-XQ

The website has finally been launched http://www.sipform.com.au/

Not to worry Nick, I understood, that's why I replied with the Hmmm too. Cheers Bryan, somewhere to park your hover bike perhaps.

Nice clean render John

Looks spot on to me.

Hello to everyone, I've posted my new reconstruction in a new topic "HISTORY IN 3D": http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81%26amp;t=59718 Just because it is not the center of Rome but Corinth I'll be glad to see you there

It's tethered to the ground with either a pile foundation on the big concrete ones or a climbing anchor type yacht wire rigging

Nice detail & light i like the newspaper ! (link ?)