OOh that is a nice animation!

I like the way the palm trees are visible but the transparency allows them to give a sense of scale without distracting from the architecture.

I have first make a Rectangle, on the Rectangle i have make the house! Then i have make with the sand box around the Rectangle a Area! When i deteled the lines than is the Area around the Rectangle is disappeared! (With the SHIFT key also) What can i make??

Hi and thanks...yes, this thread of liam's ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18866&p=167921&hilit=liam#p154487 ) illuminated the full possiblities of using a line only SU export to quickly mask areas of an image to work on separately. Once I resigned myself to the tedium of using several mutliply layers for each area (50-60 total for this simple image), I found the basic concept worked wonderfully...of course, I have a long, long road ahead learning color and stroke, etc. The shadow trick is also huge: using several progressively blurred layers to soften the edges. With more attention to detail and some work at edges that should remain sharp, I think there are big possibilities. I started off this computer journey with Windows products, then Corel draw and paint, so the Apple Adobe interface never seemed comfortable to me. When Corel bought paintshop pro I got it cheap and never looked back. It seems to do most of what I hear Photoshop can do (filters, etc), probably some of it not as well (brushes, etc)...but then again, I've only learned what I need to know at the time I needed it: so probably PSP is much better than I know. I haven't figured out if I'm at a good or bad place right now. I want to add a couple of techniques to my kit: the vray clay render, the piranesi marker style, the vue landscaping possibilities...but I don't want (can't really afford) to buy any (let alone several) expensive programs right now. So I'm giving PSP a go to emulate these three styles...couldn't hurt to learn more of PSP even if I can't get the substitute techs good enough???

Hi Puma, I'd say that the "architectural massing" is already fine (although there must be some structures under the seats to support those slanting areas). Now you'd definitely need to add some (even) better textures (from a distance, this current texture is tiling badly as well as too "uniform" for the building) some modelling/texturing details (like around the arches - they obviously need to be supported somehow) if you make sect5ions, yes, definitely use TIG's SectionCutFace plugin so that the massing doesn't look "hollow" Otherwise I love the ones when you put it into the environment - that's very "professional" looking (although I don't really like this term itself). Please, carry on developing the project.

Nice Jason You must have built a good collection of these b&w textures now

Certainly could be, although if ii is theres a fair amount of PS work going on, along with a render overlay.

Or better yet and Empty lot with a building for sale sign draped on the building. Maybe a broken down van with trash collecting on the parking lot and weeds growing in cracks...hehe you get the picture now I have an idea maybe next time I get a rendering job I do just that and submit it to the client and see what reaction I get...I can say Oh I thought you would like to see what the building will look like in 20 years when people no longer use cars for transportation because there is no more oil left.... However I'd have the real one done first so I could send that to them as soon as they stop laughing.

great as usual... which editor you have used to make the animation ,Ithil?

Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. It is a nice restoration project, as most of the exterior and interior are intact; but it is loaded with all kinf=ds of code problems (not least of which is that hideous handicap ramp in front). Modelhead, I might take you up on that offer if I can get some decent photos of the stone. My boss was/is under the impression that that rough stone texture has to be modeled! Right now I have to set this aside and work on other more pressing projects, though.

Hey Justin, Google still hosts the plugin for download here: http://sketchup.google.com/download/previousplugins.html Its in the "Functionality Enhancement" section. But yeah, it does not include the Red One camera. And the ruby script is encoded, so its not possible to add cameras to it. Chris

Very nice modeling, Macker.

thanks for the file I'm just learning to work with VRay, so that I always wonder how a good job working greetings

And another! [image: bath4u.jpg]

Ok, the Lee Enfield rifle is complete (cheers!) 5 and a half gruelling hours. [image: 4Sod_enfy.jpg]

@urgen said: ...176 layers? titanic work! I dont think so... See what makes Bert Monroy with Photoshop and Illustrator: http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_damen.htm HE is a titan! Thanks! [flash=640,505:24y52bto]http://www.youtube.com/v/ASccAMrBi2Q&hl=es&fs=1&[/flash:24y52bto]

Well since I bought Subdivide and smooth yesterday my modeling today seems to be allot better. I refined my RX-78 and now its so much smoother then before. Heres an example image. Hopefully this model will continue to come out the way its going now. [image: Body_and_modifications_by_Troopermanaic.jpg]

WOW! You must be REALLY fast, or not getting much sleep, if it's all done in the evening. Now to give some careful thought as to what kind of creature's going to be flying this masterpiece/monstrosity...

yes it is weird, especially the outdoor 'al fresco' kitchen haha.....but you gotta give him some credit....its the first thing he's ever designed! the model was an absolute nightmare to work with: no layers, no groups, no components, no textures, no trees, no windows, no lights......just pure messy geometry (takes me back to when I first learnt SU!!)

@unknownuser said: Nice Views of "The Rock" ,"The Big House" ,the Graybar Hotel", the "Slammer" In fact I can hear Nicolas Cage Saying Now "Id take Pleasure in Guttin' you. .. BOY!" (name the movie!) 'The Rock'. Nice images. Keep at it.