Thanks. It is one of her drawings from years ago. She turns 10 this month. I did model everything in the room. Even down to the candy pieces in the jar. I used Twilight.

@olishea said: @unknownuser said: Hey surprised you didn't pick my crap tile mapping at the front door mate i really havent picked up on it....whats wrong with it? looks fine to me..... The entry apron and step to the door are in the same tile but not aligned! Naughty me, normally anal about stuff like that!

I wonder if I should clarify what my role is in these projects in the Home series. I am primarily the drafter, not the designer. Like any drafter worth a damn I have a little input in the overall design, but I am not the one coming up with the design concept. My job is to draw them and make sure they will stand up when built. Just thought I should say that out loud so that I do not mistakingly mislead anyone. @ rickgrahm: With the amazing renders we see throughout this and other forumns I probably should include a note saying "Not A Render". I too always love to see su models come to life. @ Solo: Small world! Seems everything has been done before. @ lapx: You know, I thought the same thing. I think maybe the overhang should have been bigger & maybe a more substantial freize would have balanced the form. Stone and shingles...can hardly go wrong. @Pyroluna: Thanks, I maybe should have cropped out the porta potty. @ xrok1: That was a conscious decision. The great room has a wonderful view of a marsh and a lake. Placing a deck there would have obstructed that view and lessoned the impact of the large floor to ceiling windows. When one walks through the barrel vault at the entry and into the house they are met with this large view. The covered veranda and patio off the kitchen/dining areas provide connection to the outdoors with the same view without mucking up the great room feeling. That was the thought, and I agree. That ladder leaning on the glass is bothersome...hmmmmm. @ all: Thanks

Has someone translated these trees to skp files. The images files can be made as skp components used interchangably on a tree or used in kerky as an instance. This would be nice.

This pictures can be used for Rorschach test, because I can see the particular part of a female body in each picture . By the way - great job .

Yep.

now thats more like it

here's an old,noisy Maxwell rendering.. *edit... reading is fundamental.. LCD screen...whoops, sorry. [image: tv1by9.jpg]

When you have a such landscape through the window [image: gndZ_landscape.jpg] it's a pity that not to benefit of it! So 2 solutions return the toilet on another wall or use a mirror

Thanks to all [image: Thqg_13.jpg]

@marked001 said: yeah, you're right richard...looking at it again..its just so hard to find a good, big wood texture i'll be back soon with the next one. Making them out of others in PS is often as quick as searching mate!

Hey, I'm starting on a lavalamp. Modeling's going smooth, but idk about rendering. Gonna be difficult with demos... Turns out that Subdivide and Smooth ($22 from Smustard.com) is almost ESSENTIAL to modeling this. Edit: This is what I have done so far: [image: 6GxJ_Lavalampunf.jpg]

My crit is all the houses are exactly the same. I'm not a fan of living in such environment. Even if you mirrored a house it would evoke a sense of difference. What render package? Rick

@honoluludesktop said: Richard, "low transparency to soften", nice tip for a beginner like me to explore. Is that why some of the bunches of leaves in the center of a cluster look diffuse? Maybe that's the way it looks when the edge between the leaves and sky is well integrated. This got me to thinking that for the sake of the perspective, perhaps the reverse is better. Diffuse at the more distant edges, and sharper on the surfaces closest to the observer. Have you tried it that way? I could cutup the tree into sections that can be blurred, or made a little transparent to achieve the desired effect. Best perhaps for mid-range 2d veggies? BTW, do I misunderstand this post? What is a 3d billboard tree, as vs a 2d tree? Sorry mate, I thought I had replied earlier! I didn't play any further than this test given the results of billboards (yes same as 2d, just a commonly used term for same!) in rendering just has trouble compeating with 3d so I dropped the tests, though I did some later tests just using the map on a sandbox tooled single mesh and bought forward and back the obvious parts of the plant, I do this with a few plants I use to get better sun shadow response and it worked ok on the tree too. Cant find the tests now!

so whats it for?

@pibuz said: I know, and that was clearly exaggerated. I would have stopped that after the first three days. Thanks for the info on the render time, like I mentioned, the images looks awesome but the render time of 1 to 3 days is a big drawback.

Hi, soap ski bubble does still work on the Mac. I use all the latest versions. But instal soap into "tools" instead of "plugins" as the manual describes. This is a scale model of a building, the model is a work in progress, I will show the rest later. This building is about 60m high. The whole project is much bigger. I make a mass study first and then transform that model into a more photorealistic result. This is actually my first tryout modelling a fluent organic shape. I will update this thread later on, need to have some finished work to show for in about 2 weeks. Francois

the graphic art on the wall is nice and design is nice too.

Hi and welcome, thanks for the fire... , The red color is too RED... , I am sure that if you change it for a nice and soft wood, I t will be awesome... Ps: Message for all the French in the forum "Please stop to say that we are not strong to learn other language" or "sorry for my English"

michalis, these are great, and unbelievable for me to reach, you are definitely a model/texture master (let me say you are a digiRaphael )