Thanks everyone. Ill try to write a little mini tutorial on my process this weekend.

not realy... I don't even know how to...

The first thing I notice here is that there's a few backfaces visible. What you see in SU isn't always what V-Ray renders. V-Ray doesn't take into account the custom default colours, so any material with default material will end up white-yellow-ish on the front, and blue on the back. For transparent material you want to place the materials on both sides. It'd help to judge the image is it was slightly larger and with not so much JPEG compression.

I was wondering, do you know a good place where I can get 3d people for free? Thanx for the comments

Nice space and nice light. I feel as if I have just come home for lunch

heres more updated pics! [image: miser1.png] [image: miser2.png] [image: miser3.png] [image: miser4.png]

I was playing with the most amazing bug model made by the extremely talented Urgen. I did something to the texture and the renderer went crazy, I really like the way this looks. (And I started to draw bugs. [image: zyXA_buggybug.jpg]

@puma said: It looks good but I think that the tank has too much reflection on the renders. A tank isn't supposed to have any reflections, I think, otherwise it would be visible. Yeah I know, but it looked like a toy without that bit of refelction for some reason. The refelction just helped set it down more in the environment. I think I should have given it some bump or roughness though. Thanks for comment anyway @malaise said: The second render is so close to a newspapers'picture, that I'm now convinced how easy we can be manipulate.... Very interesting topic.... MALAISE Thanks Malaise. yeah I wanted it to look like a World War 1 shot or something. I think its my favourite too

i did it by making making one triangle, copoying it, componenting the whole lot, copying it, componenting the whole lot etc. Components out of components as you put it.

yeah just email me and i can send you the settings. As for the file itself, I cant because its for my work and not my own. Sorry

Very helpful and interesting, thanks solo

@pbacot said: Good work! On the first image window image of the mountain. The angle of the camera shot gives the feel that the room is tilted upward. Here the mountain looks to be lower than the floor plane. Hi Pbacot! Thank's for your advice... I didn't think at the background when I positioned the camera I'll fix this up in my new render tiriki

wonderful as always

Hi fewdavid, and well done on those renders. I am considering Vray but have a problem with it's ability to work with landscaping since everything has to be either modelled or imported into SU if post-processing is to be avoided. However, the high polygon count for plans/trees/rocks etc makes Sketchup very slow and the model very large & clumsy. Could you give us an idea of where the workflow started in photoshop? Were only the buildings modelled in SU? So, unlike artlantis, Vray seems to require lots of post processing for external shots (from what I've seen there's absolutely nothing wrong with its abilty to deal with interior scenes I should add!) Thanks!

great renders..recently I made a KT maquette material pack , based on my sketchup material pack (http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=12210), and shared it over KT forum (material section) . and here r some render using this pack , hope u joy[image: DJ1o_1st-card-board_filtered.jpg][image: H86Z_scene-2-noice-redused.jpg][image: mVfP_scene-3-12-pass.jpg] and here is the material pack: http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=51551&d=1238624518 discusstion: http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/kerkythea/10610-simulation-physical-model-cardboard-wood-5.html cheers

Amazing! I checked out your website as well, you do great work. Quite inspiring for me I might add.

here is another render of the same scene but whit more details, i think maybe if there was a better texturing way in su then the seat was not so artificail...BTW here is the result ( i was forgetting to add door lock!!! and it was down to floor! )[image: qUgW_7.jpg]

Wow! Thanks ever so much silver shadow, I'll get onto it straight away and post the results.

@gerbaux said: @tgb57781 said: Great work! It is detailed . How can you do that for the first time? maybe he's forced to work and practice at the same time.. for me, it's the greatest motivation for people who want to practice... hehehe.. The motivation?? I like it . hehe I am Chinese. I want make some foreign friends here.

@hfm said: Pretty good model [Star wars fan? ] Though I must say I find your taskbar a little disturbing: [attachment=0:3srsk6qx]<!-- ia0 -->Ho.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3srsk6qx] You in the pimping business? looking for housing