OK now I have moved into Kerkythea and am awaiting client comments. While I wait, I will download KT 2008 Echo and install it. For some reason I could not make the photo visible when it imported to KT so I had to cheat with PhotoShop. I also have to replace those two funeral directors in the hall with some suits from Armani. How long before this process becomes effortless? I thought nothing could be easier than a long straight hall. NOT! I tore the model apart and rebuilt almost from scratch and the results were worth it. Even convinced my son to pose as the delivery man. I wonder what it will cost me? The photo on the right wall is one that I shot of an old abandoned Buddhist temple in Vietnam. That was 30 to 40 years ago. I have been wondering when it would come in handy. The closest wall were looking to saturated and pink. I could not get the color I wanted so I put a false wall behind the camera and painted it blue. Then I put a light behind the camera reflect a blue light into the scene which gave me the eact lighting I was looking for. Its cheating but it worked. [image: d4a5_afshar_hall_small.jpg]

The siege tower, thats a Max model (the wooden poles are organic modeled)

Thanks for the comments. The cars, btw, are from FormFonts; the people from Poser. Ray, it always helps to get a fresh set of eyes looking at things, thanx. I agree, it does seem somewhat sterile. However, most clients don't want to see "messy reality" (sadly, where this building is that would include the homeless). In fact, we "removed" a rather ugly utility pole in front of the building. One thing that would help are the road textures (too clean), but haven't been able to master mixed materials in Vue yet. Maybe a few more people?

Nick...this has that feel of smudgey fingertips and satisfied grins: I like it a lot!

Nice work Al66. Vibrant color. Tight details.

there are different problems , first of all : when i changed the sky color all the acene was too cool colored... !!! 2nd: the light is not as the real world and i dont know what is the problem 3 the boat cloth is not real at all ( i'm working on it) and especial thanks to frederik ( kt team member) who improved me alot

Nice work Jon. A little dark but very very PR. Mike

Thanks Dylan. Tina, the 'pot' is actually a huge old metal cauldron that's onsite. Stu

Thanks. the Padauk is mine. Edited from something else but I don't recall what. The Wenge is from a pretty good photo of it. The QWSO was from an image I found with a Google search but it was made usable by our very own Modelhead and in a thread in the Materials forum.

hi mike thanks for your feedback. here is the su detail. [image: wamy_detail.png]

I like the 'lightness' to the render, well done Andrija. Mike

Hi Tom, I played around with it but did not like it. Mike

Thanks Baker, What do I think! I think you might consider changing the texture as it looks a bit repetitive, maybe increase the scale of the texture? Mike

Hi Danty, Thanks but where have you posted them? Mike

Can't argue with such a beautiful image!

thanks every1! LAPX : the exterior render took around an hour at PM+FG med settings on 4 cores... original size at 1280x1024... the interior render at the same res as the outdoor render took 2.39 hours at pm+fg FINE settings on 4 cores!

Looks good Ricardo. The only thing that really bothers me is the wall texture on the left - it appears the texture isn't tiling well, and producing a horizontal line near the top of the artwork. The only other thing I would suggest is add a magazine or two (or something) on the coffee table to give it that "lived-in" look.

Brothers, and Sisters, MS is pure inspiration. I've got this whole awesome deal -- time consuming, and of course powerful, but what the Jack bird is new about that? Durant "I'll draw your mutant little kids then" Hapke

@sketchy said: I am assuming that what is in color is what is being remodeled exactly, sketchy. thanks, tina. this way of presenting my ideas is an attempt at being coherent with the architecture i do, which tries to employ as few elements as possible to solve a problem.