Thanks everyone!

@daniel said: I'm game Great, I will send you a message so we can start.

Really VERY NICE mate!!! My only criticism - I wish I could render that well!

Great design and render,

Wow, nice scene mate! Though it could do with some items in the right side shelving!

thanks! textures are directly from sketchup. Thats why i like maxwell - no hard texture preparing before render. [image: DsEx_a.jpg] [image: SvTM_1.jpg] [image: JHON_2.jpg] [image: khjP_3.jpg]

@david57 said: Great work with the glass. Thank you very much.

@richard said: I really like it too mate! Though I'd have probably put more polys in the foreground shaping to smooth it a bit! Example of what I mean! [attachment=0:2t6e40yf]<!-- ia0 -->LILLIPILLI EXAMPLE 2.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2t6e40yf] Thanks Richard for your comments! Thats a nice example image buddy, the idea of using the terrain shape as a low poly triangulated mesh is to get a more abstract feeling... Best V

Wow, what an amazing model!! Just fantastic. Makes me mad how these lovely old buildings are left to decay and then knocked down for an estate of bland houses as is usually the case. At least your model is an everlasting record of how it used to look

@ken28875 said: First welcome to Sketchucation forum, Dan. That's an interesting project and I'd love to know more about it. Cheers! _KN oh thank you man, i will work nore alot this proyect, its not a work proyect, ots personal, but i will try to work more to show us, because i like to make money whit this apps, i dont know maybe a museum travel, turistic travel, educational aplication.

@ken28875 said: Very nice, Richard. One mistake though...something is missing...your reflection in the mirror while taking this photo of the bathroom. Cheers! _KN I'm rather short mate! lol

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Great Liam.

Thanks Ken. I used a number of point-lights in Thea, with varying colours, to light the ceiling. Using coloured lights to add different tones helps to take away from the clinical feel of the renders... I think..

@unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Is it as easy to use as it appears? Sure it is! That is its first quality! Second is the speedy of result! Alas all that has a cost! Yeah, I saw the price tag...unless I win the lottery, it's out of the realm of possibility for me. The demo videos make it look slick, and at that price it should be, but who knows what all went into making those videos (kinda like the commercials for cancer treatment centers we have here, with the small print at the bottom stating "results not typical").

http://vimeo.com/93535309

Thanks. Mental Ray did most of the work here. It's easy to use.

A revised version of the model: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u6c24c3ea-703d-4ee2-b183-f1a35dfb17c7

brighter3d PRO 2.0 (not yet available). Model from previous rendering competition (a bit cut). True caustics. Settings: Caustics:10 Adjust lighting: caustics = 8.90, rest = 0.0 Sun samples: 64 Sky samples: 781 HDR map only as a backround Overall time: 128 seconds [image: 8doN_caustics127.png]

Very nice, amazing detail!