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      studio1
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      I am truely amazed - I'd like to say this is a stunning piece of work but it simply wouldn't do justice to the care and the sheer dedication gone into this.

      Unbeleivable....

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        d12dozr
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        Phenomenal modeling! Thanks for posting here for us all to enjoy πŸ˜„

        3D Printing with SketchUp Book
        http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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          MartinPh
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          ...iRender turned out another one overnight.

          http://imgur.com/5O0FG.jpg

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            EarthMover
            last edited by

            Phenomenal work! I'm picturing this with some dirt maps applied, better glass and an ambient occlusion overlay. It wouldn't be too hard to take this to photo quality that would fool most anyone. Great job on the mode πŸ‘ ling!!!!

            3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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            Content Creator at Skapeup

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              CADAddict
              last edited by

              Simply Brilliant,
              great Job!

              http://www.cad-addict.com/

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                simon le bon
                last edited by

                Bookmarked in my Sketchup remarkable pages πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ˜„

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                  pilou
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                  Now you can make a 3D printing πŸ˜‰
                  But piece by piece β˜€
                  like this one 'Tuileries : Louvres' behind the guy
                  in fact all is not 3D printing because will be to expensive but one piece then copy in traditional (silicon muld)
                  [flash=480,385:3dhk1xjz]http://www.youtube.com/v/IMAUc9kQ8a4&hl[/flash:3dhk1xjz]

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                    MartinPh
                    last edited by

                    Tempting thought Pilou... only, where will I put it...?

                    Adam, I need to get into the iRender material editor more; I barely scratched the surface. But bitmap textures are basically useless, except for detail views; on the large scale patterning will occur. As for the glass, suggestions are welcme! I'm not satisfied with the metal ornaments either.

                    As far as I've been able to see iRender unfortunately doesn't do AO. I'm still hoping ASGVIS will finally come up with a decent patch for their new, incredibly buggy Vray, which has been sitting on my PC unused for over a month now because it crashes every time I try to render this model. I would be very curious to see what VRAY makes of this!

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                      tomislavm
                      last edited by

                      My God,it looks fantastic, unbeleivable. For me You are the master, how long did You make it?

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                        ScottPara
                        last edited by

                        This is a perfect example of a highly detailed model and taking the time to get things right and not rushing things through only to post your work. The attention to detail is fantastic to say the least.

                        Scott

                        Love the fact that some HATE my avatar.....

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                          Anssi
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                          Martin,

                          I run out of superlatives.

                          Now you can make an animated version of Brideshead Revisited...

                          Anssi

                          securi adversus homines, securi adversus deos rem difficillimam adsecuti sunt, ut illis ne voto quidem opus esset

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                            Fletch
                            last edited by

                            Stunning model! I hope you leveraged the use of components in this one! Seems like if it was done right, it would be a big file, but no 80Mb...
                            but who am I to judge?! I've never built a castle like that! πŸ˜†

                            I'm sure if you showed what you've done to people that care about the castle you would find it of great importance to them. πŸ˜‰ If they're in the mood to think, or listen.

                            guessing SU2KT could export this to Kerkythea, and you can use layered/procedural textures with it, and instancing brush for vegetation... and it's free.

                            Fletch
                            Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                              MartinPh
                              last edited by

                              Hm, no, unfortunately. Attempts to export this to Kerkythea only make SU crash. That's why I opt for renderers that work inside SU.

                              You are undoubtedly right though that a little more work on thorough use of components would reduce the file size... I tend to be a bit lax in that way, bad, bad habit... Not that I would expect such a 'cleanup' to solve the export problem, I'm afraid my system simply isn't up to the task.

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                                Al Hart
                                last edited by

                                @martinph said:

                                As far as I've been able to see iRender unfortunately doesn't do AO. I'm still hoping ASGVIS will finally come up with a decent patch for their new, incredibly buggy Vray, which has been sitting on my PC unused for over a month now because it crashes every time I try to render this model. I would be very curious to see what VRAY makes of this!

                                Ambient occlusion is a technique used to "fake" indirect lighting in renderers which do not offer this feature. Typically, engines like Maxwell, Kerkythea, or IRender nXt do not use this because they offer "true" indirect lighting. Some engines offer the choice of indirect lighting or ambient occlusion ( ambient occlusion is faster, but much less correct).

                                For IRender nXt, you should use the "Gather/Exterior" indirect lighting setting to get a similar result, using actual indirect lighting.

                                Al Hart

                                http:wiki.renderplus.comimageseefRender_plus_colored30x30%29.PNG
                                IRender nXt from Render Plus

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                                  MartinPh
                                  last edited by

                                  For those of you who are intererested, here are a few examples of the reference material I used. Vitruvius Britannicus is an excellent source, offering complete plans and elevations as well as, in this case, a famous and spectacular birds eye view. Still, modeling the thing soon made it clear that the drawings are not consistent among each other, so at times I had to improvise. There are no lateral views or views of inside courtyards in VB, so for those I relied on a visit, on photographs and even on scenes from the Brideshead Revisited TV-series (excellent!) and movie (awful!).

                                  Jon, I envy you! I have traveled quite extensively but still consider Howard and its environs to be the most beautiful place I've ever been...


                                  Castle_Howard_plan.jpg


                                  Castle_Howard_Vit_Brit2.jpg


                                  Castle_Howard_Vit_Brit3.jpg

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                                    ken28875
                                    last edited by

                                    Wow, awesome model! πŸ‘ πŸ‘

                                    I would suggest you play with the camera/field of view to get some more interesting/dramatic views.

                                    Have a nice one!

                                    _KN

                                    Follow Your Dreams.

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                                      Fletch
                                      last edited by

                                      hmm... too bad about the component leveraging... as it also makes for much faster model processing and rendering and better RAM usage... maybe keep it in mind for your next monster project. πŸ˜„

                                      well, it's a pain, I'm sure, but you can export different sectors of the model, north wing, south wing, etc, then merge them all together in one big model in KT... but it should (KT) handle the polys just fine.

                                      People do this all the time, usually its a matter of separating furniture from architecture... but in your case could be castle "wings". πŸ˜‰

                                      Fletch
                                      Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                                        Glenn at home
                                        last edited by

                                        This model needs to be the response that people get when they say that SU is not a professional tool! Excellent job. πŸ‘

                                        SketchUp Pro 2024/2025 Dell XPS 8950 i9-12900K 64GB Ram RTX 3080

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                                          Sir
                                          last edited by

                                          amazing

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                                            dermotcoll
                                            last edited by

                                            Absolutely stunning modelling. I am totally blown away by the sheer size of this project. Very very well done

                                            πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

                                            When you burn your arse - you gotta sit on the blisters!!

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