there is actually a number of free ruby scripts that allow you to eather mark camera location or even tell you the distance to a particular object, this takes out all guess work of setting the distance in vray CameraDistance.rb - Returns the distance to an object in the direct line of sight. cameraLines.rb - Connects all cameras of all pages with lines. (needs more then one page) There is also old Film & Stage plugin that kind a works in sketchup 7, allows you to mark camera location, and do all the measurement.

@unknownuser said: Bathsheba is a She If you right I was maybe mistaken by the speedy show of the photo!

great work as usual, tom. i agree with eric: let those flags hang, man...

Thanks for the comments, guys. Mirjman, you are right about the renderings being flat. I definitely want my next rendering to have more depth. And I see what you are saying about the mechanical look of some of the elements versus the sketchy line work. I'll have to think about that. I appreciate the tip, Honolulu. I actually read a tutorial that suggested just what you mentioned. So I did incorporate some of those ideas on these renderings, but I plan to make better use of that strategy next time. You make a good point about the bleeding style not matching the paintbrush style. I'll have to try something a little different next time. Thanks again.

I think a couple of your light bulbs blew since your last render. Its now too dark for my liking and although I can see some reflection, it's too dark.

Hi, Don`t know preciese what you meen.. but it is my render and I used photoshop to enhance it

Thanks, it was mentioned to me earlier but I forgot to change it. This project isn't going to go away anytime soon so I am going to fix it in future renderings.

thanks for comments @rcossoli said: the two images are renders? The truth seems to be a first photo, are very well made textures, I congratulate you. VRay is not? yes , I use vray @marked001 said: pretty sure there are containers on formfonts.... not sure about 3dwarehouse...they're out there though! looks great though. no no , as I said already, this model I 've downloaded in 3dwarehouse of dandis yes, thanks dandis for his very good model

Adam The reason i was able to do it quick is because I only animated four frames (all that was needed) and I lowered the render quality to final and reduced the output size. I had a 64 bit installation last year but changed back to 32 bit due to too many issues of campatability, Since then many apps have begun supporting 64 bit, I plan to upgrade to a new I7 dual quad soon which will be a 64 bit rig. So in answering you I would say yes 32 bit rendering will be slightly slower, however I use 5 rigs on a render cow configuration which makes the difference un-noticable. The .skp importer works okay (not great) I still prefer using .3ds export, but that's more because I am stuck in a tested workflow. Please ask me anything, I will do my best to help.

Going from cigarets to pills and drugs . (I am not into those BTW) This is a bit Off-topic, as I did this animation in Cinema4D . I hope that is not a problem just for this time...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWf_GBEr6GQ&fmt=18 [flash=640,400:1zh8hjdq]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2752527&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1[/flash:1zh8hjdq]

excellent model bytor, keep up the good work!

exellent render and super model!

really interesting feature Solo. Do you have a rendering where you've used that ecosystem? -Brodie

Thanks, Boo, but when I posted the same size stuff last week this didn't happen (and my post this AM is the only time I've seen it anywhere so far ?~) Oh well, got it now.

Couple more with some new brick and a couple of other tweaks. [image: qH0k_robatto-chalet-945-6.jpg] [image: 3JQP_robatto-chalet-945-5.jpg] Xfrog Public trees from KT. Acme brick textures used with the Brick-Jag material.

fymoro I Think you have done a great job on this image, very realistic looking. I do agree that the tile on the far side need to be aligned and after hearing that comment I noticed that the tile on the near side is (slightly) misaligned as well. I agree that changing the field of view is an important thing but in this image the first thing I noticed is that the field of view is off a bit. To me, it looks as if the columns are leaning outward. I usually use a setting of 35. One last comment is that the trumpet appears to be floating just a bit. I think it would actually rest on three points, (for lack of better terms since I know nothing about musical instraments) I think the mouth piece would rest on the ground as well. Other then that, GREAT work!!

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR... LETS MAKE IT AN AMAZING 2009:P

Darren, thank you...and as Gai (your check's in the mail, BTW :`) said, I think I've posted here all the trees in this image: search me and tree or trees. If there's one you can't find I'd be happy to share, just let me know.

Ok ! And "bravo" again for this great drawing!

Hi Fred I rode what Gaius has written and I agree too. May be you may also focus on books which seem to be copies of the same group. You could rotate them. Quite impressive work MALAISE