Awewome work!

Thank you Bryan

Another variants are rendering now... As bonus, photos of land: [image: FMuD_DSC_0001.jpg] [image: vk4N_DSC_0004.jpg] [image: Z4OV_DSC_0006.jpg]

very clever indeed, much appreciated posting the material settings

Nice work Dan Do you have an image without the SU line overlay (for comparison)?

Ditto to the comments made above + perhaps work on the paving material too and model the paving joints and junction to the grass area

I used tanks from the Warhammer 40K universe as inspiration

Oh! Those are better! Much better.

I had the luck to see the exibition of Hopper today! Very cool ! Color, light, composition, mysterious mood! The only famous boat painting was this one [image: tumblr_lhjzhzyxzU1qf45lzo1_1280.jpg]

Sometimes a solution is obvious to me and I just jump in, do it, and then document with photography. Less obvious problem/solutions are solved by modeling which then become renders. Even though I render, I really think of my sketchUp/render work as prototyping and testing. The computer has streamlined work flow. For me sketching, working drawings, documentation and presentation art are no longer separate projects. The line between these process becomes more and more blurred as technology begins to bridge the gaps and integrate the disparate elements into one continuum. I would like to model the fiber optic lights although I have not figured how to go about it yet. I use twilight render and don't know what chices I have for propagating or bundling the fibers efficiently.

hi forum! watch the finished images here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=48392 best V

Nice work. A couple of plants would improve it, and not sure I'd want to sit in that chair, looks awfully spindly to me.

@hepf said: Nice. Hill crest too sharp though, a retouch in photoshop to soften will do the trick. Thanks for your comments on Rome. Trying to put toghether a short animation, will post it when done... Thanks and the Rome project looks fabulous. To be honest it's nice having a background that is VERY sharp! In my package there are both hdr (4000x2000) and jpeg (8000x4000) if you need a very crisp background. In thea and other render engines you can use the hdr to illuminate the scene and a different image as background if required. That's a cracker Pilou!

Looking good

Loving the renders and modeling! Only suggestion I can come up with is to make some corners less 'harsh'/sharp, like on the chairs and couch in 'Living Room 4'. Keep up the great work!

Once again: an amazing job Hellnbak! Can't believe the smoothness in the model without using SS. Taking another hat off for you sir

@olishea said: Can shadow catchers receive caustics yet? tried this a year ago but no success. No caustics with shadow catcher at the moment, is just a simple way to embed objects to the environment. With frontal projection and camera mapping you can have all features. You will map actual models or simplified models, so you have all material features, including reflections. They sort of relative to SU photo match and projected textures (naturally without modelling).

Don't have a clue what you guys are talking about but if I made something like that I would have both arms in casts from patting myself on the back. I love the lighting effects

Your skill and perseverance are inspiring-- Your creativity and design-sense are evident. Enjoying the subject matter and as a lifelong LOTR devotee it certainly fits the Numenorian--Gondorian (sp?) culture, for me.

@liam887 said: @pbacot said: Cool. What West Coast. Why so long til completion? English West Coast Mainline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line This is a personal project and I have a big conference I am speaking at on Thursday so have a lot of prep work to do and soon after I am giving a course on digital publishing so even more prep. @leedeetee said: Look forward to seeing this - although won't it be a First Group train soon?! I hope not although I hate the Virgin Food and you should really have free wifi! I meant why so long to railroad completion (2054)! LOL I don't mean YOU have to hurry on your model! We could really use one of those out here on our West Coast and soon. and...it's looking good!