thanks Majid , Glad to see u around Brother and thanks SketchupNoobie too ............ modelhead: thanks for your gentle reply !!! nice way to encourage newbies if you could fight all those thieves and crackers, go ahead and congratulations indeed !! the whole net is full with cracks and thieves , its not a bout a simple group

are you saying you were around in 1948 nomeradona?

@dorfpunk said: ...In this case the sky is from here - http://www.gaieus.hu/su/Cloudy.style... And to give proper credits, (I think) it was Chris Fullmer's sky creation shared back on the old @Last Forums. And yes, certainly it's kind of "refreshing" to see some native SU output nowadays when we are spoilt with the abundance of rendering apps and rendered models!

Thanks for the explanation dorfpunk. Very clever.

@tadema said: James, thank you. Your comments are always welcome. TIG, thank you also. These are all modelled "by eye" from pictures I find on the web, the hardest part is finding something to draw. I’ve made a Tutorial that’s on James site but I’m not sure if I’m allowed to link it here. The old buildings have character and I love craftsmanship that went into constructing them, unlike the modern boxesof today; today’s tradesmen (I use the word lightly) couldn’t hold a candle to the old boys! It seems there all chasing the money now and no longer have any pride in their work. Regards John That's why my 60s lodge looks 'rubbish' and your lodge looks great !

Heres the rest of the projects...didnt get them all in the first post

thanks a lot guys ; )

Very nice! I'd live there.

@michaliszissiou said: Glass works fine now. What confuses me is this casted shadow on ground face. Some soft shadows would look better, perhaps not enabled for the light source?

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback

hi sid, thanks man.. another one rerendering and redesigning [image: render-interior-done.jpg] [image: interior-3.jpg]

@designerstuart said: cool. did you build each component separately? (also it would help if hidden geometry was turned on in wireframe, but do not worry!) thanks for sharing. Haha sorry about the wireframe not showing hidden geometry, I'm still pretty new to sketchup. And yes most of the components were built separately because I found it easier to build them and then import them into the model. Heres a few better shots of the crf. [image: nyQa_ccc.JPG] [image: TqQ6_ccccccc.JPG]

as usual excellent work. congratulation

Trees from ngPlant. Need to work on something else. Maybe, with something that has windows. [image: s3gj_StuccoFineE.jpg]

@mistro11 said: I enjoyed the video! Congrats! The music kept me watching too. The sample used in that track is from one of my favorite old school songs. Nice job! Here is the linkto it

Creating realistic camera movements is pretty hard. When I do Sketchup walk-through's I use the scenes/animation for most of my camera movements and then some manual movements with the mouse. I'll try to mix them up so you don't see the exact same pan, rotation or zoom over and over again. I also use a program called FRAPS that records video of any Direct X program. I don't use Artlantis but it looks very nice with all the shadows and sky rendered. You will probably have to do a lot more trial-n-error to be pleased with your camera movements. Let me know what you figure out.

Thanks for the compliments! I rendered the frames at 2560x1440 30fps then I used Photoshop to run a script and downsample the images to 1280x720. It's a few extra steps, but the results were better than having sketchup produce 1280x720 files. The semi-photorealistic portion was rendered in Kerkythea.

lol.... I know, IO know, I keep promissing ....ok one of these days....

both are great . some minor attention will improve: rise up "every thing" on table about 1 mm to have a fine narrow shadow under em. give a bump map to carpet too.

Sawadee Jeri. I was wondering if the middle render with the very dark sky was meant to be a night view. I borrowed the image and played with it to enhance the night view effect. [image: ozem_temple.jpg]