Fantastic work. Sweet job on the presentation. The animated .gif is a splendid touch. poster-Director Bob

james, they would be protected from the rain by the plexiglas roof. and, since the room is the bottom of a light well, there is no way to steal them from there. mike, you are right. and, being the design a gift to the owner, i have more freedom to suggest what I think is best. edson

Very nice, thanks for sharing and welcome.

That Is a nicely well done first SU model. But be careful you might find SU addictive and before you know dinner is burnt and the sun is coming up. But the up side is one day you think it will take hours to get a part to look like you would like it to and “bam” dinner isn’t burnt and the sun is still up and you just set there looking at a completed item and think of what to work on next. poster-Director Bob

Nice work CADken. I like the exploded perspective view in the presentation. poster-Director Bob

thanks guys..much appreciated.. i'll post up the finals when its done.

Thats a rather large project. That would look rather nice using some of Todd wood, ripple something. Alan

Twin front disc brakes?! That must be one heavy rider Ivica! Cool models, nice renders. Jackson

Thanks all for the nice words. CraigD, "Tropical Garden" by Stu Mayhew displayed in the KT site gallery is photorealistic even from 18" away!! Tom, at 974 x 623 pixels resolution and "PhotonMap+Caustics - High + AA 0.3" setting it took 33 minutes on a P4 3ghz 512mb RAM and 128mb VRAM. Fletch, Wow! a comment from a KT guru! I had also noticed those two light behaviour (KT Lights - Ceiling3) and tried changing to spotlights but didn't like it either. Thanks for the pointer on PS shadow/highlights. Guite

@eqc said: MAC USERS!! MACFORMAT 184 JULY 2007 ISSUE ----FREE FULL VERSION OF CHEETAH 3D is it not a demo version?

sorry, i took it off to make some alterations, i have put it back up now thanks for the comments guys has been really helpful

Damnit 4get to attach image here goes [tom yong] [image: dENA_test9.jpg]

Modelhead, Thanks for the positive feedback. It always helps! There are a bunch of issues around selling images of SketchUp models. Some of these are technical, like finding a good way to print models, but most have to do with the nature of art itself and the market for art. At the inexpensive end of this practice of hanging images on walls, there is the poster market. People purchasing posters don't really care that a poster is mass produced. Low price is crucial. At the expensive end of the art market exclusivity is key and price doesn't seem to be much of a factor. In the middle -primarily lithographs and the like- scarcity is artificially created by the artist destroying the plates after a certain quantity of numbered prints are produced. I think something similar will be necessary for SketchUp art (digital art in general) if we want to sell our work outside the poster market. One interesting possibility is to sell a certain number of unique (numbered) views into a model and then destroy the model. The same practice could apply to walkthroughs of models. I'd love to hear what others have to think about this issue. Fred

jb, been watching this thread with great interest (but haven't had time to play I did download VP5 a few minutes ago (longer I guess since I used up my free trial already) and really like what it does...might just buy it and an edger/outliner I've had my eyes on. Thanks and more please, Tom.

Move the jaggy slider and they will be even better.

Yea, good ole' Indiana. You can't buy a bottle of wine on Sunday, but you can get enough fireworks to level a city 24/7. I'm glad they were helpful.

Jeff, this is really great! I have a son is really loves skateboarding. Might be fun to see what happens in SketchyPhysics?

Hmmmmm...so you actually "painted" the painting. (No wonder it looks so good! :`) Thanks a bunch for the ideas now smolderin', Tom.

Eric, nice image...must be a fun project detailwise!

i thoght i saw something weird...where have the shadows gone!? would look a lot nicer with shadows, in my opinion. good refelction and stuff, though.