Fine work you have here. Something about the left end where the porch meets the embankment doesn't seem quite natural enough against the vegetation.

Hi Chris, Dominic Stevens is an interesting guy. You can check out his ideas here, Dominic Stevens (Architect/IRL) 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDp-IVgnPE Dominic Stevens (Architect/IRL) 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-m5tfs1XMM Also attached is an interior shot of the 'glasshouse'. Mike [image: pOk1_mimetic-house-dromahair-ireland-dominic-stevens01.jpg]

@rick graham: man that would be a great idea, a "model this" competition for each and everyone's favorite song or artist. i'd be willing to join with a new entry, a led zeppelin song perhaps!!! hehe!! let's get it on!!! @massimo, @numbthumb: yes it was hendrix' version that inspired this work. guys, rick graham was suggesting to have a competition, "model this" based on your fave artist or song!! that would be fun!! raise your hands for this to push through!!

@unknownuser said: Are the 'Frames' of the 'Screens' slightly transparent? I don't know if it's me or if it's your render, but i can see internal geometry and geometry showing through where there are overlaps. I plan on tracing this image to produce a drawing, so I dropped a line render on top in PS to facilitate the process. The internal geometry being visible was a side effect I hadn't anticipated, but I like it somehow. @unknownuser said: This is NOT a criticism Even if it were, that'd obviously be OK. People are more than welcome to speak their minds about the images I post! @unknownuser said: But i imagine you spend quite alot of time with camera angles and lighting? I do. Though I obviously have no moral issues with using tools that make setting things up easier. I'm not a masochist. @unknownuser said: Thanks for sharing Thanks for looking. @unknownuser said: To clear up those shadows, try raising the samples of the lights. Ah, yes, but you see, I've lit this using one of the environments (so that would be an hdr, I guess) SLIK comes with. I'll have to do some poking around in Modo somewhere next week. Should prove interesting. Enjoy the weekend, everyone.

Hi Tom, Sorry for the delayed response. By repetitive I mean that the trees of a species appear to be identical one after the other of if different too subtle a difference. So they appear cloned and therefore un-natural. Small point but when you exist in your rarified layer of great work I thought it worth mentioning. For me I'd be happy to do half as good. Enjoy the weekend, Allen

Thanks, guys. Scott, I doubt I will model the surrounding buildings, our design budget will not allow it, and I have another element of this project to design and model. I MIGHT use photos of the neighborhood for background, if I can get some decent ones.

@unkr3at1v said: OK, this part is only rendered when ungrouped! Is this a known issue? I'm using Vray cool model! great attention to detail. I'm a big fan of post-pro so I'd touch the levels up a bit, get the whole range of greys. about the grouping, I found out vray ignores groups inside groups, they just dissapear. The answer is either to explode, or to make components, which vray does render if they are inside others.

Thanks for your comments red_shift, I agree about the back wall material's. My computer in an 3years old Quad core 2.66ghz with 3go ram and Nvidia Geforce 8500GT...(I think that now we can get much better...

@mamer said: Nice work! I'm a novice trying to render my street. How did you get the scale nailed down? Did you have access to planning documents or did you just use the ruler in Google Earth to approximate everything? Hi Mamer, What i did is, got some CAD plans from planning, then worked from that choppir

Mi Espanol es mas pobre que tu ingles. La familia de mi esposa dice el habla como Tarzan.

Its a good thing that I won't be entering this

Thank you Stevebo for your kind words. If I have learned nothing else from going back through the old work is that neatness counts. The thought of purposeless lines floating around inside my model keeps me awake at night! Oh nooooo, I am becoming one of them....A modeler! p

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Thanks for sharing Paul

Models and materials looks weird...try improving them and render with higher presets.

youtube transition video here: [flash=853,505:9wp0v0e3]http://www.youtube.com/v/AwK2omRy5ls&fs=1[/flash:9wp0v0e3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwK2omRy5ls

Thanks for your comments, Ok, here is a new render with some spotlight on (not eco-friendly... ) I used the medium preset as i do not have time today, 1 hour rendering and 2 minutes on PS and ACDsee Pro. I have just printing on a Photo paper this render, and it really look like a Photography Medium Preset for me is enough good, 1 hour rendering, and PP it is perfect for my clients and quick. Comments are bienvenue [image: XemQ_50.jpg]

of course, just give me time. Well i have to say that the original settings are from mi dear friend teofas http://sketchando.forumotion.com/v-ray-f11/gua-oficial-v-ray-parte-02-archivos-visopt-t751.htm?highlight=visopts good luck!!!

No problem, Paul Cheers

Ross - we've lost touch. Has this house gone ahead? I'd love to see photos.