Thanks for the comments guys @massimo

Mark, Excellent touch!!! I wish I can get my landscaping to turn out as nice as yours on the outdoor space i'm working on. Are those 3d plants or images or both? Keep posting!

As Thea Render uses some heuristics when converting Kerkythea materials and if you have some complex material, then converted material will most likely need some fine tuning.

Thanks, Once I get done with a section and do all this stuff I'll let ya know how things are going, and I'll probably have more pictures as well. Thank You

I like frogs!...I married one, it was like the fairy tale only it went pear shaped. The princess turned into a frog. John [image: hmRZ_03b.jpg]

Cheers, its part of a larger model im continuing with in my WIP thread. Thought I would post this in the gallery as its one of the few things I actually get round to finishing!!!

Love that car. What is the car's back glass reflecting? Is the model enclosed in a room?

broomstick, I dont know, im not familar with those programs. I just like the free stuff. majid, Yes, this has no background, not a room. Yes, I do need walls, base boards and doors for backgrouds. Working on that. tadema, Yes, This is a exellent model to learn from. Comes with leather textures.

Sorry, didn't like the idea of busting it up either. Kerkythea MLT BPT 48 passes, no tweaks or post pro. [image: 97Cf_carmltbpt.jpg]

Impressive work as always.

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Excellent! Looks like my kind of place.

@frederik said: @slimdog said: Looks great for being straight out of sketchup. It sure isn't straight SU outputs... I see reflection in glass materials and lights... Definitely not straight SU... Oh no, sorry. Materials are Sketchup, but of course the model is rendered. I used Twilight Render.

Have you tried futura family font? Is very similar and I like it a lot. The G is more rounded, just like yours. http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-f4.html

I am sitting here next to my copy of Views by Roger Dean, copyright 1975 second edition and on the back is the UK price L3.95. And a companion book, The Flights of Icarus, by Donald Lehmkuhl, edited by Martyn Dean and Roger Dean- which is a collection of heroic fantasy and science fiction artists including Dean. Some of Dean's techniques were based on the premise that oil and water don't mix. Small world, small clock.

@bryan k said: :lol: I like! Thank you

Thanks Dean. My problem is getting the Kerky models, from the Kerky models library, to load on the render stage. Some of them will, some of them won't.

Thanks Dave. It will be a while before I work in the Hab/Command Module interiors. I'll probably post them as a separate post in a few weeks.

Ross, glad to see you doing some solar projects. I know there some anti-solar Luddites that lurk in our forums, but I am starting to see the handwriting on the wall. There are several precursors that I recently noticed. Two large home improvement outlets here in Phoenix, Arizona carry laser aimed non contact thermometers for checking energy efficiency. When I went to buy one, both companies were temporarily sold out. I checked with a local distributor of the Sanyo double HIT solar panels that you told me about and they were also sold out (although its possible that could be traced back to Tsunami/nuclear failure shortages). Here and there I am seeing more units installed one-by-one and am seeing a lot more ads from installers. However, the one thing that bothers me is that I am not impressed with the type of installation being done. The solar units are being tightly coupled to the roof surface. The results are: The units transmit solar heat to the roof The units themselves are less electrically efficient at higher temperatures The units are not being used to create wall shade which in itself would lower electrical demand

what are you using for the model? did you build it in sketchup? i think the scale is a little off.... the sinks are small, and the window sills are high... apart from that, everything is great for a newbie. i agree about the wood texture comments too. learn more, good luck!