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: 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: 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: Shape3.jpg]

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: 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!!!