Hello TLD, there's a walkthrough of how I model in Catchup 3. The only thing I can recommend is to work on your textures (PS ect} before applying them to your model. John

Awesome, how did you do that grass?

These images were used in the presenation, but the actual presentation was compiled with a common graphic layout, and with some plan drawings and concept sketches and some additional views (like having the model on a 2d section drawing to show how it interacts with the existing building), and the last drawing wasnt used-I was just playing with some stylization in photoshop on that one.

Maybe on white? [image: U3Vs_sandwichwhite.jpg]

Hello and welcome mondez. Looks nice but it's difficult to distinguish between what's modeled and what is PS. John

This is my latest hobby project, a spaceship. Just to test my modelling ability. Still much to improve [image: Glnq_1.jpg] [image: EYxg_2.jpg] [image: gHZB_3.jpg] [image: 9tpG_s1.jpg] [image: sF6M_s2.jpg]

Thanks Speaker, on one of my earlier trials I did use FFD, not quite how you are-I was using it to deform a tapered spiral after it was made (like squishing just the bottom 3rd, etc.).

haha yep, big site, big model-it has about 2.5 million faces. the most challenging part was I only had a few rough pics to go off of, and the grading/structure elevations get a bit tricky as it sits in the hill. the villa is set on a forested hill, and I did do one version with 3d trees (placed with component spray) just for fun, but it hid a lot of the model and for the most part sketchup vegetation has never been too great. The version with trees has over 9 million faces... [image: dIUb_aldo_forest.jpg]

Glad to hear it! Yeah, it's a very different workflow and took me some time to understand and use before I got comfortable with it, but it really does make a difference.

last week i had a similar task... in a quick sketch for a shop i had to visualise a upholstered piece of furniture, of course with curves. i decided to use a picture as the texture, since it was only shown half in the picture and it was just one small detail. worked out well in the picture. unfortunately i cannot show the full picture due NDA, but i guess it is safe to show the furniture. [image: Jw5A_gesteppt.jpg] do not look to close at the far upper left corner, there is something going on with the texture

Dangit! Why can't I get mine to look like this?!

I can't see the update. But the first image looks to me like much more than a rough sketch.

Thanks Dermot.

scostumatu: WOW Thanx man. really 3 years I've been using vray sketchup, never knew about this. I'm not sure how that works, but i'll give a try and let you know. Tanx man

...or maybe not. I used MS Movie Maker Live to post (final edit) and now the program won't open the file or let me edit.

Good job considering the limitations you are working with. I long to test this out myself if I ever get new hardware. Shaderlight appears to be a very fine application. And yes, I did see the thread comparing VRay and Shaderlight.

I'm speechless again.

I really love the classic cartography symbols. Such art!

@unknownuser said: didnt realise there were vid clips (work browser doesnt show them up)... wow how long did that take to render? great job I did them at 1080 so it was about 4-5 hours. But at 720 it is about 2-3 hours.

Hi, [image: xqVc_Shape3.jpg]