James, here's the link to Mike's thread (there is a "download" tab to most of their stuff): http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=8550&p=51783&hilit=+snap+art+#p51073 The demo is a full feature 30-day (60 if you have two computers :`) though it will take me much longer than that to explore all the neat filters...but it already looks like I'll know enough to spend the $150 before then!

Thank´s to u all! rhankc - Well I have bought a book that´s called google sketchup for dummies. And then I have read a lot on the podium forum. And got some suggestion on how I can improve my modeling or renders.

John's right... although I object a bit to the "look so weird" phrase. Here is the picture used. Some Cherry blossum buds on a sunny May afternoon. Ahhh, so brief but so beautiful! [image: ji71_IMG_4657.jpg]

Stinkie, no problem. For me the new Mac Pro works like a charm under Bootcamp vista 64. (Actually I never boot Fisher Price Macos X ) I didn't have any hickups yet and Indigo runs smoothly. If you run XP64 or Vista64, Make sure to install the X64 version of Indigo. It is very stable and more speedy than the 32 bit in my opinion :better spreading of tasks over the different cores and better adressing of the RAM. (And it does a great job on Crysis as well )

That is so cool! It immediately reminded me of Silent Running with Bruce Dern 1972. Shoot, now that I think of it, you look a bit like Bruce Fred. Could there be a connection? [image: silentrunning1.jpg]

SR 71 Blackbird SU and Kerhythea [image: r6bL_9b.jpg]

Sleeping was the plan, thne i decided to do this instead. Who needs sleep when youve got modelling falls asleep on keyboard

That is really cool The larger image is a bit blurry though. What is the subject matter if I may ask?

Kickin' That's nice.

impressive looks good (without combustion?)

Bubba very nice cant wait to see some more images thanks mike d

@nrevk niatpak said: nice renders... Thanks... Much appreciated... @nrevk niatpak said: only crit would be the grass that appears to be somewhat flat Yeah - I know what you mean... It's actually 3D grass I'm experimenting with at the moment... @nrevk niatpak said: what is the IOR of the glass ? I used the Thin glass material from the basic pack...

Ive done a bit of raster to vector conversion, and generally the results arent very acceptable, and that was with black and white images, i cant imagine how bad theyd be with colour maps! On the other hand, i ahve imported a pic of a map in to SU before and traced over the contour lines. That worked pretty well, and if youve got a good pic you can drape it over the mesh very easily. If you had some known distances, i supose you could also do it to scale as well. or maybe just use GE

Thanks for your CC Daniel.

Hey Guys! Thanks for all the great comments! Yeah, I really need to get this thing in gear. Heh. No pun intended. Jason! Those Australian rigs were one of the inspirations for this truck. In fact my sister lives in Australia and I remember seeing lots of cool stuff when I visited Ularu.

updating this with another finished painting before. i treated the surface with mixed media paste to create texture before painting it. [image: motherandchildpy6.jpg]

no problem...what dimensions will be?....and what's your mail? pd: tell me what do you think of this picture in a big size, maybe if it's large it doesn't look good or look too granulated

In the second column of screens the bottom two monitors have a deformed casing. The shadows on the back wall seem strange. I don't like the marble tops of the cabinets on both sides of the room. The computer chairs are pushed aside, when surely they'd have been lined up in front of the keyboards? The left computer chair is hidden behind the table chairs. I'm not too sure what the 4 boxes are at the end of the long table (speakers?).

model looks great.. the only thing that distracts is the tiling grass- it looks like carpet. I learned a neat grass trick from this model here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d218e86bdbc5ab2b972ec726e7a08cca&prevstart=0 its a fast move that makes a ton of difference

Fred, You have quite a lot of patience and a wonderful imagination. Keep them coming. I sit here and smile. Thanks, Allen