Yea... the client wanted a straight on view without it being a 2d elevation. Maybe I still need to play around with camera angles and field of view to get something a little better. Thanks Daniel!

Itd be cool if you could find a better background image, the one youve got at the moment really doesnt do the model justice.

To Pav 3j, Igor and Mike thanks so much for your feedback, I am glad you like these images. There are another 16 renders of this space - I just sent out the CD to my web designer yesterday, so hopefully they will be on my website by week's end. Mike D - I have posted to the Artlantis site, and they have added some of my images to their gallery, but thanks so much for the suggestion. As for the computer that I use - it is a Mac G5 running OSX with a Intel Xeon processor - it is on loan to me from a very good friend. Even with all that power, it still gets bogged down from time to time. For large models like this one, I have to break it up in Sketch Up, and then piece it back together in Artlantis. Usually, after that point, everything works fine. I would also invite you guys (and anyone else that may be interested) to visit my blog at: http://lonewolfdraftinganddesign.blogspot.com/ Basically, it is a page for people to exchange ideas - it is all explained in the first post. Thanks again for your comments.

nice modeling, and rendering, seabass!

Fred, they reming me of those jelly fish that can give you quite a sting

Thanks for notes. I will correct my error in free time.

@unknownuser said: Another nice render Khalid. The only thing I can see maybe needs a little tweeking is the facade of the building. Looks a bit shaded with regards to where the light is coming from. Other than that, great! Thanks James, it's the texture mapping effect my friend and there is no light at all as I mentioned before. The only light used here is the hidden sky scene in my GI engine and ofcourse the SU environment itself. Regards, Khalid

... by the way this is how the render looks without photoshop!!! [image: Y4qx_gralgrievous2resized.jpg]

No problem Antonio, here's today's results.... scene 1 : 2 votes scene 2 : 2 votes scene 3 : scene 5 : 1 vote scene 6 : 1 vote scene 7 : scene 8 : scene 9 : 2 votes scene 10: 2 votes Please cast your votes... gian

Beautiful, Pete...and I too think the night render is just great! (Please don't post this model, as I'll then be tempted to add it to all of mine...at the least to cast a shadow :`)

Great as always Solo, keep it up. Is it worthwhile to try using the free version of Vue?

I rendered it with Kerkythea

that is brlliant solo, very impressed! you have done my little quickie proud! thank you very much pav

found some words about maya

@igor said: SO... MUCH...GREEN! as you can probably tell, i think its just a little too monochromatic. the band of beig in the middle of the wall was a nice touch, but a little more of the other colors would be nice. needs a window too... great model, even if there is too mcuh green... your point is valid, I will add a window later on and maybe change the floor color.

Ahh... it really isn't that hard! Funny thing is that I thought this process was hard to do but when I took and second and tried it I found out it was pretty simple. Now I'm just trying to learn different techniques!

As usual, you are really on to something here. Wow!

@daniel said: @daniel said: Sorry, I'm being excruciatingly picky - has to do with my job this week. It appears to me that you applied the stone material to the font face only of your soffit light (as illustrated on the left, below), but didn't return it on the bottom to show the thickness of that stone (as shown on the right, along with a supporting frame). It's the sorta thing that only an architect would probably notice. [attachment=0:247hl1ac]<!-- ia0 -->stonesoffit.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:247hl1ac] regardless, it's a nice rendering. not at all Daniel, you're most welcome. Now I got your point. The most difficult part in any realistic rendering is the light distribution and the texture mapping technique. This model took me more than 2 hrs to achieve such an output. Currently, i'm experimenting fluid and realistic water surface which is really hard to achieve in sketchup+vray. The minutes it's done I'll post it here and your comments will be a plus. Cheers Khalid

Very nice.

Looks way fun, cool model.