@stinkie said: By the time I'm done with this, everyone else will be churning out interactive holograms that feel and smell just like the real thing. Hence the Wip a dee doo dah @stinkie said: Same thing in Modo. Everything got rotated; the Item List got really messy. Shame really. It'd be nice to have the same scene hierarchy as in SU, and to be able to import components as instances. Have you tried BlendUp, by any chance? Looks promising, but all I got, was an empty .blend file. Granted -I've only tried it once. No, haven't tried BlendUp. Obj import works just fine for what I need. I have a blank template scene with all the vray settings already in place, so I'm not sure it would add anything additional for my workflow. Might be worth testing when I have some down time tho. Since I know my SU models will come in organized by material, I keep that method of organization in mind as I prepare my SU model. The biggest thing I find is that I end up with too many materials. When I have my model in Blender, I'll duplicate the single mesh that I've imported to a few copies with only specific materials. For example, one will be the glass mesh. In the original mesh, I'll select all the glass, make the copy. Then in one, I delete the inverse, and the other delete just the glass.

Thanks mate, I am using Renditioner which does not work in sketchup 2015 where there is already a problem with memory. Sometimes it will open in v14 and sometimes not but I will try for a few more views.

Really very nice Dave!! I love the idea of the stow away cushions, and although the glass top is period representative I'm just not certain if that's grabbing me! I just thought of an option to the overall purpose of this piece. If the whole top hinged up to expose the seat cushion, while itself has a thin padding for the back. Love where it's going though!!

Thanks, it's nice to learn something new and I have a shed load to learn.

Indeed it looks crazy, the peugeot guys are starting to do some nice concepts. Wow, that is strange, almost a year !! And it felt like the other month... These are from the last year.Peugeot Exalt B14, Peugeot Lion Phaeton and Peugeot Type 1(which I am sending it to you if you want to apply some textures as you well know to do). [image: 8NgK_PeugeotExaltB14.jpg] [image: AFU5_PLPa.jpg] [image: RACb_Peugeottype1.jpg] [image: vd0c_Peugeottype1a.jpg] [image: Ubdw_Polycount.jpg]

Thanks Bryan Appreciate it !

Definitely being too hard on yourself. You should have seen my first models. You don't even want to know how many years it took me just to get to intermediate. Some people have a knack, I had to slog, but I also had lots of great help from the folks around here. I still can't do organics or advanced texturing worth a damn.

Looking great, Mr. Amos.

@daniel said: I do, too; those columns are a component made by someone else many years ago. haha, I was going to ask if you modeled those corinthian columns Nice model overall.

hehehe,, it's oke omikron but i wish our discussion not just end my last comments,,keep it up man,,,i like to see your car

oh,,well thanks for all comments,,omikron, krisidious,hellbank.. i'm not sure that i can do that ( software r-factor2?),, i just got learn about blender and not so intents to learn too..by the way thanks for information.. here one of my project recent and need more time to detailing it [image: 11406248_375944199272652_3801874241957510186_o.jpg] [image: 11028359_375944185939320_3003436107137712844_n.jpg?oh=0688f4803f1ab6b2bd7e46d66bb683a6&oe=563129DA]

@david_h said: If you Get Billy Z in there--Shooting at Leo--Then maybe I'll watch the whole thing. [attachment=0:3700csbz]<!-- ia0 -->Billy z.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3700csbz] The movie is ready! You can watch "the whole thing" right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHJv6iYwPeI Please let me know if you like it or don't! Thank you!

Hi. Thank you for the comments. I have developed a special liking for black background. It gives lesser strain to the eyes. I have changed the back ground of my word documents to black. Initially I used white text on black. With a lot of text, it also was giving strain. Now I changed the text to 20% grey. It looks perfect. But has to be careful while taking print outs. It is a good idea to give various textures and colors to indicate different stress levels. Will try it soon. Thanks.

Wow, 259MB!!! While I admire your incredible attention to detail, you might consider figuring out how to make do with using a component for the rope vs groups. After all, unless the rope is glued to the beam, would it really follow every contour of the beam? This is not meant as a criticism, your modeling skills are impressive to say the least, just a suggestion. [image: CIxk_2015-05-06_070918.png]

Really nice tire threads. This should look really fine soon

Had to fix the right hand-side tree. [image: fLl5_ExteriorUpdate.jpg]

Thanks Daniel.

Looking good there, sketchgirl1. How did you do the reflections?