please can you do a higher res clock (i understand why it is small). its amazing.

first off, good work. I am thinking that the pavement in the first image would actually be lighter where it is worn out from use and darker where not used as much- perhaps the opposite of what you currently show?

great work as always! nice photomatch without using Photomatch

Hi imabzeous The materials are very dark so they reflect light poorly. I tried a quick render in Kerkythea with much the same results as Podium. A lot of faces are also reversed but I don't think that adds to the problem really. Maybe you can up the ambient light a bit to make thing lighter. Regards Andre

did someone say dali? [image: http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/olishea/blobs_of_doom_dali.jpg]

I don't use photoshop much, I used Picasa, which is free, and very self explanatory. http://picasa.google.com/ Good Luck!

Very cool choice for your first post!

Wow, one of the most dramatic differences between Sketchup input and render output I've ever seen! It reminds me of comparing screenshots from an Atari to a PS3. -Brodie

haha nice profile pic lol twisted sketchup user

wow, Eulgrand . I like both, especially the second one.

Good luck Richard. I didn't take you for the lying type Hope you do well, -Brodie

Pete, It's awesome... , You and Twilight...

@jenujacob said: holy crap... pilou... U really need to clean up that desktop! You go, Pilou. My desktop is 80% populated.

Nice render, lighting. Bones need some texture though and here comes trouble. Egyptian writing? Here's some help. [image: egypt01.jpg]

@pibuz said: Hi Dylan! The floor tiles you show in the first render are amazing: how did you do that? I simply drew around them and push pulled! It took me about 20 mins at a guess. What I did was applied floor texture in SU. I right clicked and chose texture/position. I then drew a square on my texture, the size of the box shown when you edit the texture (where the 4 pins are) I knew from here I could hopefully seamlessly tile it. Next I used the freehand pencil tool and in plan view quickly drew around each individual cobble in the square. Once all were traced, I push pulled 10mm. Some of them I used round edges on at 2mm, but I only randomly did this on maybe about a third. Finally I hid the lines at the edge of the stone cobbles, then created a component. With this component I scaled it to the size I wanted, then simply copied it along to fill the room. The image above was 6 components. A couple of images may show it better: It probably sounds more complicated than it actually was. It was simply a quick brainwave and it worked first attempt. [image: A close up view] [image: Raw SU showing Component]

Merci michaliszissiou

I love Podium. I learnt everything I know from this app. The basics of lighting, detail, textures, bumps, specs etc etc. The forum is fantastic and I owe everything to all the people who helped me improve and try harder. I started to look at my work much more critically. People have specifically 'defected' to twilight because it's completely integrated into SU, just like podium. It gets to a point though where you need more options; more realism, SOFT SHADOWS, real bumps, more control, image based lighting, camera settings, DOF (haha). I started to fake effects in photoshop with my podium renders and I don't think you should have to do this...such as blurring the unrealistically sharp shadows.[edit] which they have fixed in the new update I bet it's hard for the developers to strike a balance between an easy-to-use program and one with enough 'professional' features. They are listening to us though, there is a wishlist on the podium forum that people constantly update with new ideas. Future of Podium Version 2? I bet it will be awesome. But please, this isn't about Podium vs Twilight. It's about DOF and sexy chairs My theory on renders......it's the substance that counts......"you cannot polish a turd"

use a fake emitter on the surface of the light ball with a pointlight inside and render with Easy "low" or "Medium" (do test on prelim for practicing with rendering animations) you can of course render it other ways, even make the sphere a light emitter (as I assume you've done here), but that will render much longer... try it with the progressive animation render settings. making the sphere an SSS wax material with a pointlight inside could also be interesting. when rendering SSS materials with non-progressive render methods, use one with a "+", so Medium+ would be a good one in that case. look up the SP animation threads on TWL's forum

Really nice crisp render....love it.

Great postcard-feel image, but whats with these diagonal strokes/hatches?