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    • daleD Offline
      dale
      last edited by

      You have my absolute respect. Wow!!

      Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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        MartinPh
        last edited by

        Thanks all! Jopsa, I'd love to texture it, but I would need a renderer that does procedurals (actually I have one, Vray, but it is unable to render models this large 😞). I think I'll be experimenting in Photoshop instead. Best of all would be to export this to Vue, as someone else suggested, but on my system that is definitely out of the question... (and like SU, Vue is very good at handling its own native format, but not so good at handling imported geometry).

        As for stats:
        3,446,304 edges
        1,527,138 faces
        6,682 component instances
        3,832 groups

        I am on a P4, 2,13 Ghz dual core Vista PC, with 4 GB of RAM and a 'Loser Edition' nVidia card that I will be replacing one of these days... (it messes up shadows completely). The model was finished in SU 7, and SU can handle it without any problem at all; only, when orbiting, components and groups go into box mode. I had several crashes, however, when trying to export large bitmaps.

        PS, Jopsa: I found your Pantheon greatly inspiring, it seems to me that operates at an even higher level of detail!

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          MartinPh
          last edited by

          Here's another render. I love this feature of iRender, it actually does true orthogonal renders.

          http://imgur.com/7Y4A4.jpg

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          • Paul RussamP Offline
            Paul Russam
            last edited by

            Well done! I'm truly impressed. That's a lot of work you've done there.
            Do you have an example of the drawings you worked from?, I'd love to see what type of info you had.

            Paul Russam
            English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark allies, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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              3eighty
              last edited by

              Fantastic work...Reminds me of a castle out of "The Tudors"...If you want a render done in Vue I'd be happy to do one for you... 👍

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              • Al HartA Offline
                Al Hart
                last edited by

                Nice stuff.

                I put a link to this thread on the Render Plus Blog.

                If you need another 30 days of IRender nXt, you can renew the trial code at: Reset Trial

                And I'll send you a PM with a special discount for IRender nXt.

                Keep up the good work!

                Al Hart

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                • L Offline
                  linea
                  last edited by

                  Martin
                  This is phenomenal work. I live about an hour from Castle Howard so have visited a few times. Wish I'd thought about doing an SU model!

                  jon

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                    studio1
                    last edited by

                    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
                      last edited by

                      Phenomenal modeling! Thanks for posting here for us all to enjoy 😄

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

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                        MartinPh
                        last edited by

                        ...iRender turned out another one overnight.

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

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                        • EarthMoverE Offline
                          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 👍 ling!!!!

                          3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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                            CADAddict
                            last edited by

                            Simply Brilliant,
                            great Job!

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

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                            • simon le bonS Offline
                              simon le bon
                              last edited by

                              Bookmarked in my Sketchup remarkable pages 👍 👍 😄

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                              • pilouP Offline
                                pilou
                                last edited by

                                Now you can make a 3D printing 😉
                                But piece by piece ☀
                                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
                                        last edited by

                                        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! 😆

                                          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. 😉 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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