Thank you Victor. It's an interesting tutorial but I'm not sure how the HDRI would really help since the cabinets are inside a box and the HDRI would be outside. HDRIs might be something I'll look at one day but I like keeping my renders simple. I have no intention of trying to make anyone think my images are photographs and I don't want to spend hours creating images. There's no return on that investment for me. Quick and easy is what I'm after. Even with the reflections and three lights the render time was under three minutes.

Some more detail, the reactor is based on a non sustained reaction idea and being a little over a meter across would put the Skunkworks to shame with their "tiny" trailer-sized reactor they are working on, if it worked. Two neutrons are raced around the track and then collide as femto-second laser pulses hit the same spot. The inner layer collects the waves of energy. The second is magnetic shielding and the third is secondary heat shielding if the first layer fails. This is only half of the reactor. Lots of components used and manipulated. [image: jy9x_Reactor01.png]

@ely862me said: Hi ! Search the forums a bit or even google it and I am sure you will find plenty of hdri images that suits your needs ! http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=48871&p=439019&hilit=hdri#p439019 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=47552&p=425735&hilit=hdri#p425735 http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=41241&p=421802&hilit=hdri#p421802 Thank you !

@rich o brien said: @Steve I don't know but I imagine your beard now is lllooooonnnnnngggg Well, I retired in '89 and haven't shaved since (not entirely true - I did shave it off once about ten years ago when I lost a bet with my niece

Thank you Nicholas!

Well it looks pretty authentic, frontone and porch look much like the colonial American style with some classical architecture influences I'm using the same CAD drawing technique when building the facades of surrounding buildings on historical site insertions.

That's how industrial architecture should look like ! Well, in a not so far future, that's how buildings will look like in big cities... isle-type buildings. You could evolve it structural and architectural from this concept.

Insane is less said... astonishing detail on the framework and body. People usually don't pay too much attention when they're making cars as they used to do back in the 50's and 60's. You're the one that still does pay attention to those details, congrats !

Thank you, Rich.

Lumion takes the place! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh73wmYX2NE

Really nice modelling, texturing and rendering.

I can't quite put my finger on why I like it. It's extremely well done style and detail. For me, it might be the way it reminds me of really good anime'. Anyway, good job.

Very nice! Thanks!

Looks like a great start.

Really like this clock. Be nice to see a different background and border colour, the white doesn't sit well at the moment. Maybe render it sitting on a mantle shelf?

yeah just need a higher res non-repeating texture. you will find one eventually, there are a few around. I would say your renders are underexposed. Sun just doesn't seem bright enough, this will improve them immediately 4th image you posted for example, grass reflects a sunny day whereas the house looks underexposed. Simple post pro or tonemapping in render engine would help.

12,500 tris so far. [image: 2ns16wz.png]

Yeah, you guys are right, about half file size goes to vegetation ( That big tree is 2.5 Mb ), and I am hiding it for every different view along with all unnecessary geometry, i even render from 2 different models with same scenes because together they would be huge. Ill try look into vray proxies, anything that can ease handling of models is a great help .

Finished up the SketchUp model.... [image: YFS2_Nimbus24unicycleSketchUp.png]

Pieterv thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!!! you can watch the finished images at the gallery thread: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=48954 best V