My first post in the forum: two buildings
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Hello Ivan, welcome to SCF!
I always love to see pure SketchUp output. Sorry that I can't comment on the architecture, but what I see looks really professional to me.
Very often it happens that foliage from 3D trees looks unrealistic because the leaves are far too big.
(a deciduous tree has an average number of 30k leaves - many models have much less to keep number of polygons down.)
I'd say the leaves of a birch tree should not be bigger than for example the logo of the Porsche - surely not as big as a human head.
Maybe you can find some other tree model in the 3D warehouse. It could also give your entourage some more individuality, because this particular birch you are using is one of t h e standard components that was seen a million times already.I like the movement of the pigeons, but somehow they seem to block the depth of the picture. People, trees and birds look like they are all in one layer... i would let birds fly in the sky over the buildings to draw the eye more into your composition.
cheers + keep posting
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Hello Alex, thanks for the welcome and for your reply.
I agree with your thoughts, sharp and precise.
Soon for more pictures
ivan
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Well Ivan if this is your first post I have a feeling you have a lot to contribute. Welcome and please post away.
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Oh, somehow I missed your second post (daughter keeping me busy, she can't sleep cause it is too hot tonight)
With the shadows you are right, but I like the overall look
(and the improvement on the foliage )
Does IDX not support soft shadows? What about some reflections for the windows? -
@Dale: Thanks very much! for what i saw in these few days, this forum is a mine of inspiration
@Shura: fortunately my son is asleep, but the heat hurts me too!
Thank for appreciate.
About IDX, i started experimenting recently, but i think that the soft shadows are not supported (however i'm happy to be wrong). For reflections instead seems to work fine, although these images do not actually seem ...Upload below another image rendered with IDX, where the reflections are good, but the shadows are always hard
Good night
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Wow, those are really good ivan.
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thanks a lot ecofeco, really nice
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yeah sharp shadows never look real do they?
why not try podium or twilight rendering engines....they both have soft shadows. and in twilight you can set how much blur!!....both integrated into sketchup. try demos for free! however for your scene I think Twilight would work better.
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Thanks olishea, now try to download Twilight
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don't forget to read the manual!!
there are several language options too
i don't think you will be disappointed!
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Very nice work, Ivan. In the first image, I'd delete the pigeons - in my opinion, too much entourage and the composition seems crowded. In the B&W image, you might look at lightening it, or changing the sky - it looks dark and forboding. Love the stone material in the last image.
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Bryan said it, very good images indeed, espeially the last one! (I really like detail shots.)
Like Oli I would recommend Twilight too, it has a very helpful forum as well. Also there are quite a few discussions on SU integrated render apps in the extensions forum here at SCF. -
Thank you Daniel and Shura, gladly take note of your comments
Today i'll try to start working with Twilight -
My first choice was IDX, then I've found twilight and this became the one and only renderengine I am using.
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