Beautiful work! I love the flags and the wheel of dharma railing.

Thanks for the kind words. Cheers Richard and Alessandro.

@dave r said: Thank you Mike. I agree with you. I'm always impressed with the photo-realistic renders I see here but I really have little interest in making them myself. I much prefer images like this. ...... I am afraid we are 'old school' Dave, going back to the days of 'workarounds' for glass transparency

Thanks Lads, I used V-ray, as pointed out the glass turned out not so good. John

@bryan k said: @olishea said: Bryan K: you may want to use a depth render to fake underwater effects...you can use it as a mask in photoshop...let the image fade into blue for mirkier water. why not try adding a water texture above and use sun for lighting so it casts caustics onto the rover.....just a thought. Thanks Olishea. Some good ideas. However, I'm using the basic free version of Shaderlight. Not a lot of controls. Not sure how to do the Photoshop effect. I get what you mean, but I don't know how to do it. Tried the texture above. It didn't look good. I did darken the light though. [attachment=0:3rdhj1zz]<!-- ia0 -->subseaROVrenderlights2.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3rdhj1zz] Everybody is jumping on the submarine bandwagon this month. http://liam887.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/submarine-model/ I also tried to get the reflection water texture on the sub but I could not get t to work correctly and that was disappointing. Its always annoying when you know exactly what you want to do but just cant get it to work! If you figure it out or get a good effect post it here will be nice to try it myself.

Hmm. The Chinese have a saying "May you live in interesting times". In that particular use the word interesting is near to being a curse. Here are a couple of more renders of a planetary transmission. This is for possible use in an electric trike project that I have built and am experimenting with. The trike is intended to be a hybrid utilizing electric and petrol power as a true hybrid where the petrol engine operates as an assist to the electric system. Note that I am not in business not do I have any plans to start one. Any developments such as this are free for anyone to use if they think it worthwhile. [image: planetary1.jpg] [image: planetary2.jpg] This is the concept drawing of the trike: [image: etrike3.jpg] This is the actual development vehicle: [image: etrikem22.jpg]

Photos these days are just so unrealistic!

Wow.

You are very talented. p

Hello jsteacy, sorry about spelling your name wrong, it was unintentional. I modelled the roof tiles, I think they always look better and they don't take long. Thanks for the comments, John.

@bryan k said: Did that help with your video card? The new renders look good. Im not sure Bryan, but I guess so. And I think that is rendering faster. I dont know how graphic card work during rendering. I have 4 core cpu and its under 100% load, but graphic card is not working a lot. But I can see improvment clearly. Anyway thank you for help. I would like to know more about it. Have to do some searching

Way cool. One of my first more complicated successful models was an old subsea wellhead. Looks great.

Thanks Dale! The tick in the circle has now become their registered trademark, they liked the tick idea so much they wanted it to the name as well, which I wasn't happy with but agreed as long as they agreed that they are NEVER used on a page together as they clash badly!

This may be the last image for this job. The clients have decided to use us for this remodel job but the budget may not justify any further modeling/rendering. On a daily basis sketchup & podium and the help that can be found on these forums proves to becoming more and more essential to our companies ability to communicate with our clients, sub contractrs and each other. Thanks for all your comments. Paul [image: 9MA6_greatroom.jpg][image: CoN4_great-room-proposed.jpg]

Thank you guys! Means a lot! Richard - although it's not my intention to grab anyone by the balls, I am glad that my render did! JSteacy - Thanks. The rain image was actually one of the better received renders! Mike - The project is actually over, but I am willing to do extra stuff. But, the model is a HUGE file! Over 4 million edges and over 1.6 million faces. Sketchup is really laggy even on my i7 and Quadro FX1700 with this file. I might have to give Lumion a try though when I get the time! Hopefully it'll be able to handle the file a bit better . I've actually never really worked with animation before though. Should be fun!

Great renders, especially the close-ups. Awesome!

Great as always. 3D painter. Spotlights escaped a bit.

Thanks again guys.

Nice design. Looking good!

Posted my latest render as well as a render I did along the way. Hope you like them. Please let me know what I should do to make it better. [image: 9xl5_desk_render6.jpg]