great stuff, really inspiring

Thank you very much Csaba. That really means alot to me. I guess the sketchy styles can get to be a little too much but I like the hand drawn look better than the plain old SketchUp style.

Aidus, Exactly. I pretty much start from an Autocad drawing and refine it to use in Sketchup. The dwg had all the lines in there already except for the yellow road lines in the foreground which I added myself based on existing conditions (if you haven't met the maps.live.com Bird's Eye view yet, it's a WONDERFUL tool to find out existing conditions). For the texture I just use the asphalt texture and adjust the color to yellow or white. Normally I just stick to white as yellow (or blue in the case of handicap symbols) can get distracting, but in this case I think the yellow works. -Brodie

LightUp is still early in development but already IMO one can produce nice images and have quite good animations and panoramas with very little effort. Also you can export now your models to game engines such as Unity. Adam is planning a lot of new stuff in a future. IOR , Caustics and colour bleed are all planned in new material editor to come. As it stands you can still do a lot of stuff amongst other you can simulate volumetric lights, you can animate textures, you can use DC to animate objects etc. Also AO is much more improved with 1.5 and you can now control the strength.

@tom2 said: Many thanks to Gaieus who helped me solving the display bug! Glad it got solved at all. In fact, I didn't really solved anything - just exported the model and it worked for me. It's a fine model however, congrats.

those things are wierd

@roger said: Is your laser rangefinder a Bosch unit? I really want one. Yup, A Bosch PLR 30. Not the latest model but does what I need it for and it was also on sale Well, as for the cobbles in that particular street; they run in all directions but at right angles. As (I think) I said above, I have the city plan in dwg and I certainly find it much easier to model from that file (plus the vertical measurements with the Bosch unit) than with PM. However I do realise its potentials (have you seen what Olishea posted - again?) just not for this particular task.

Yeah, I can vouch for CG, they're great! I get all my textures from them. That's a nice design you've got there!

V good first.. Goldragon979 Good luck

Thanks to all the smart people here too. If I hadn't learned of this forum and learned so much, I never could have won ... ....if I hadn't learned a few tricks...

Hey that looks a lot like my first few animation. I would always use a bunch of cubes and various shapes to try and get the camera and settings right. Looks good, keep posting the progress!

@lucifer1101 said: i dunno why but he just doesnt want me to make it public... i may post it anyway... I wouldn't post the floor plan if the client doesn’t want you too. It does not make for very good business relations. Most of the work I do cannot be posted until it has been approved and out of contract (built), then they want everyone to see it which is good for me because it makes for more business. Not so much in your case, but in the commercial market and high end residential we never share images, there is too much competition between companies wanting to look the latest and greatest that if there current idea gets out then everyone will look like that. Lots of drama and politics, but they are the ones paying me the big bucks, well sort of.

ha that was never his mum

@khai said: I'm actually a bit nervous to post this here.. but here goes We're not selling Xanax here so the gallery shouldn't be a place to be nervous in. It really looks like a cool project. Please, keep posting as you advance.

@unknownuser said: Thanks, Pete. I was surprised about the speed/quality ratio myself. All praise Mado! PLEASE SHARE YOUR MADO !

@alpro said: You can also try to adjust adaptive amount under dmc sampler to .85 Mike Thanks Mike...................

Realy nice renders. I 'm trying to render a sailboat in hypershot at the moment but I do not manage to put the sailboat in the water correctly. Now the boat just flies around in the space. I already tried to work with a plane and assign a water material to that plane. But when I do that I wouden't know how to make this plane fit with the background? I also would like to show the bottem of the boat in my render so the water needs to be a bit transparent. Is this possible and could you please explain me how I could make such a nice render as you did. I would really look good for my final presentation! Thanx a lot

Coen - my client totally agrees with you and made similar comments. Tinanne - I agree that the palms need to be rotated, I started to do it on the left side of the image and failed to continue it to the right side. I did not use piranesi, just hand colored with a wacom tablet and Photoshop CS4. Bob

Here's my attempt. May add a different one later, I'm not entirely happy with how dark it is. Sketchup and Kerkythea with flames added in GIMP. [image: 1KC4_candlesf.jpg]

Thanks for the coments guys olishea: i think you're refering to the normal map beeing too strong right?I still can't control it 100% but i'm getting there, i hope... TIG: i didn't know about that movie, specially 20 years ago... guess it's not such an original idea now. Anyway it made me curios about the movie (i'm a movie manic, i see everything that i can grab lol). Does it worth the rental? I promisse my next image will be much "happier"