Spiders skylines

spider74

thanks all.here is my bridge that i entered to the canyon crossing competition in s.s.page

think it was a little bit too out there,came joint second in comp

spider74

here is the traxx 22 tower i did for the in chicago competition on skyscraperpage.forum......all my stuff is not about the perfect render,im new to sketchup (1 year)and dont have great computor or tech drawing skills etc etc....i stumbled accross sketch up and have been addicted since,give ordinary people a chance to design anything...just letting ye know

traxx22

all done using free s.u, free kerky, free gimp photo editor

ely862me

impressive

spider74

japonica tower

japonica was part of complex but got the usual sketch up not responding so took out tower to finish it

the asparta complex

hebrides

Acropolis and the Push-Pull city renders have an unusually pleasing style. Thanks for posting, they are very enjoyable.

sambort

Very nice work spider74,

Just for info, could you tell me the max size of this files? and how many faces (by model info) you have.

I just want to draw something similar but my files are huge.

Thank x yout time,

Chris Fullmer

Whats your process on the acropolis city. I've been thinking through how to automate building a city very similar to that with ruby. Id be interested to hear how you approach the layout and building form.

Chris

spider74

Sanbort and Chris Fullmer.....first my file size 6.28,edges 65057 and faces23295...thats as big as i could go with sampadoria city.....

chris with the acropolis city and sampadoria cities they are just made up as i go along as is every thing i do from the bridge skyscraper to the cities...........for acropolis i first wanted a hill as i crap at terrain i built on boxes and kept going(had athens in mind)..then started coastline same with sampadoria...just work from my head.....for the buildings i pushpull them from the ground,add roof and some detail,zoom out see how it looks and then zoom in in and repeat....turn on sun in s.u for shadows ,render in kerky,put in black background for big contrast,i dont bother with any settings for render ,just reflection in water.....all very basic really,i just know as i go along how i want it to look..........my advise go to skyscraperpage.forum...find miscellaneous....you will see google sketchup section...inside you will find push/pull city by me toyota74...you will see how i begun ....plus there are loads of cities there by other people...well worth a visit...

spider74

commie blocks

spider74

more buildings....

spider74

lastest buildings sketchup-kerky

spider74

models for ssp-city in skyscraperpage.

Chris Fullmer

Its all looking very good. I also thought I'd let you know that we have started making a city generator plugin for SU. Once we get it up and running I hope you'll play with it! It has its own sub forum in the Ruby forum. Right now it is a bit messy and oriented more for ruby scripters, but soon it should be cleaned up a little, so you can start to play with it:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewforum.php?f=314

Chris