How did you make those wire meshes? Transparent .png or something like that?

Hi andre51 The panorama was 99% standard settings in Irender NXT - I made a few slight light effects with photoshop post render but the majority of the diffuse light effects were produced by the renderer itself.There is now a new beta available which allows up to 8 light channels to be tweaked instantly post render in a separate image editor(multiple lights on each channel including sun and sky - It would have saved me a few hours on post editing. Thanks for positive comments Boothy Sorry andre51 I went babbling on without answering question - Irender NXt uses indirect lighting - presume you would call raytrace rather than radiosity - Al does a good job of explaining on this post:http://nxt.accurender.com/forums/p/817/3433.aspx#3433

As someone who does NPR all the time, I can say that the hardest thing is to develop your own style of work. You don't want your images to look like all you have done is a couple of tweaks to a render, but to have a special quality that is your own. My suggestions would be: 1) look at what other people are doing and find styles that you like 2) look at architectural photography to get a sense of lighting. The image you posted has some very dark areas, and also has a rather cold color palette. A photographer will use warm fill lighting in various places that are in shadow. I also don't depend too much on the render, but hand draw a lot of elements using Photoshop and a pen tablet.

thanks again Oli! Dspace: I don't recall the spp value at the moment. It rendered something like a night and half-a-day, maybe reaching something about 1000s/px. But I could easily be wrong.

@unknownuser said: so that in case he had a thought in the night he could get up and write it down I can't even manage that when I am awake. @unknownuser said: His mind never rested. I make up for him on that one. Thank you, David.

First of all. I'd like to say that you have done two great things here: You appear to have successfully modeled a space that conveys a warm sense of place successfully. Yes, your render times are long but no one can argue that there is a large amount of detail here and a warm color scheme and good placement of elements and furnishings. You have created rendering that is decent enough to evoke comments from real masters here that encourage you to raise the bar. These are good signs of a good presentation. You can choose from one of at least 6 or 7 renderers for SketchUp but they will only make the model look so good no matter what you use. I think you have a well lighted and well detailed model. Nice work. And as far as rendering software is concerned, I like IRender nXt from RenderPlus Systems. Last week they just came out with version 3.0 of their software. This model may only take about 2 hours as opposed to 72hrs.

inxs was know abbreviation before the bend....sorry but unxpected just pokes in the eye too much....same like cirkel

Asirad, Adding the sweeps around the head of the bed did fix some design flaws. There are standards as to the spacing of crib slats and I believe it is 3" on center with no more than 2" of open space between slats (its been a while since I designed baby furniture to be built). I am still questioning the bar with the hanging toys on it. It just looks too low. Overall I really like the shape of the crib and your corrections are working while still staying true to your design. Well done. Scott

@cmoreink said: i like the perspective in last one. adding fumes and some heat in around engines. maybe an enemy missile chasing the jet? more textures!!! graphics! At this point the only thing thats stopping me to make all that are my PS skills The missile gave me an idea to make a comic. Maybe I'll even back up a little from the realism to make it.

Some Trees from ngPlant in the background. Need to work on something else got tired of this scene. [image: kIfg_RenderF.jpg]

@unknownuser said: how to do this? structural curvy roof[TUTORIAL] s*

@unknownuser said: I played around with panorama software (because you3dview only works with internet connection) and found Panosaldo (opensource, in fact that is behind you3dview). It allows to make tours with hotspots. I was lucky that I didn't have to learn how to open/edit flash files, but it is necessary to work with xml files . They have a new graphical user interface (not free) SpinControl This is also ruled by xml files an also they have a visual addon (commercial of course - but if I get some business with it, it will definitely be worth that couple of dozen of Euros). @unknownuser said: Also I would be interested what Google does with it's very sophisticated panorama system (now they want to include World Heritage Sites) Certainly there would be potential in that but I doubt it will be as configurable as these other pieces of software. I also read the WH site inclusion but that is for Street View (i.e. existing stuff and outdoors) only at least ATM. @unknownuser said: The surrounding walls are a bit bluish and tiling, but I like the stone floor! I know, that texture is really bad (the "client" insisted on it). I will definitely need to develop my own texture collection made from scratch and from photos of the real buildings. I still have a long way to go of course.

Nice work but I think it needs some color correction as the trees are very green and do not blend with the overall image. This makes me feel like a video game image. Like I walked through the forest in a first person shooter to find this tree house. Scott

yup im using photoshop.

@olishea said: you got some wild imagination there!! Thanks! often, imagination is not enough to make things right

thanks ken. im glad you liked it

Me three. I always love seeing your work. Just fantastic! Scott

Very nice presentation Andre. Don't you just love parking lot gates? The last one I did with a solid yellow arm, and matching background with a black letters warning sticker on it. A little better then strips, or not!!!-)

Overall a fairly clean render. can you post the material settings for the wall on the right? Also what version of Vray are you using? A few crits: The door needs a handle and some hinges. It seems to be floating without it. The exterior needs an image to help ground the the render. The chair material needs some work (too much noise). Your missing the details that can make this a great render (i.e. light switches, outlets, etc) Not sure what is going on with the pillow? on the left of the seating bench. For this to be a salon I see nothing that tells me that. The picture on the right wall seems really high. Fixing some of these issues will really help. Also, if you want help with materials we will need to know the settings you are using before answering any questions. Best regards, Scott

Thanks for the crits gents, very helpful i'll try and do an updated version if i ever get of my ass.