As I repeatedly say as long as the client likes it, it is a sucess! we often look at things thru a different prism than our clients, we get overly picky and all the while it still is going to blow the client away ... beautiful image and great render, and you got paid, even better!

Before start the renders: [image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2546/3705861781_c016660d0b_o.jpg]

Great job Edson.

much much more coming. right now I'm cleaning up the parts and redesigning some. hopefully I'll have more to post soon watch this space..

Allright, there are the styles: [image: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3651/3703076379_fb83165f8d_o.jpg]

Nothing new for the moment..

AWESOME work.

Very interesting. I like it.

Very, very nice, Eric. Hmmmmm, wonder how that entry porch would look with some rain chains on it?

it might be nice to see the river, if you modelled it/have a pic... more reference around the building would be good too, cityscape maybe?

good stuff, but i think the view of your 2nd render doesn't match the first. it seems that you're standing in the middle of the road, but you've included loads of vegetation as if you're looking through shrubbery

loving the sunbeams! has to be post proc, no render plugin for skp does volumentric lighting like that i dont think

oh its just 3ds format, sketchup pro already exports as that anyway. I thought you where using SU formats, yeah 3ds is industry standard pretty much for games mods.

These, with the girl in the foreground are my favorites. I will have a look at the bar by time.

VRay Render without background: [image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2514/3698790576_252b257951_o.jpg] With background: [image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3697981135_ded2d94e7c_o.jpg]

@sir said: the sides don't really match each other, there are gaps at the corners... Yes, this was an old model!

I'm also considering to try out LightUp once I have enough time (and "ready" models to test it). Note that it has a trial version (AFAIK 1 month) so you don't risk anything giving it a chance. Here is a topic on the LUp Forum I was browsing yesterday (in fact, it was for a different reason but then the same thing you're contemplating on came to my mind). And here is a video by Adam (author of LightUp) that demonstrates some workflow from LUp to Unity: [flash=500,400:1gxuoxhv]http://www.youtube.com/v/eNI2RjNsRwY&hl=en&fs=1&[/flash:1gxuoxhv]

thats a good tip...honestly thank you. I have never gotten into the workings of a camera (and I probably should considering the relations between them and rendering), but that makes a lot of sense. I will try that method in the future sometime. But thanks again for the explanation.

@prisoner said: Very nice model Thanks! @prisoner said: Medieval stuff is what I'm modeling too Where can see your models? @prisoner said: What makes me a bit dizzy here is looking at the right side of the building, with the small windows. Maybe its just me, but I thinks it looks like beeing of a totally different scale than the front and reference guy. The windows are small because it is a barn and farmers dont wants that the sun enters through the windows...

@solo said: Incoming!!! [image: http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/255/trail.png] It's .png with alpha, you can use it in any render engine if needed Did you create this? If so, how? Vue?