Flagstone Patio & Landscaping (Real Project)
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Sharing a recent project. A backyard flagstone and travertine patio with a gunite spa and waterfall, landscaping, etc. The project originally involved a home addition and new covered roof as well. I modeled it 100% to scale including the surveyed terrain. The 2D plan view of the planting plan was done by exporting the sketchup top view line work to Dynascape as .dwg and adding all the plant symbols, callouts and planting key. Then composited in photoshop with the Sketchup texture view at a faint opacity. Plant symbols colored with Dynascape Color.
Sketchup line views of the model also attached and some pics of the project thus far. I was just responsible for the visualization work and planting plan on this and can't take credit for any of the actual construction design. C&C welcome.
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Beautiful modeling and renders, the grass and plants are superb !
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Thanks John! I'm a big fan of your work as well.
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Beautiful work as usual, Adam.
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I decided to swap out all the 2D plants on this one for 3D plants from Sketch3D (Dynascape). I did a few additional renders and processed a quick test animation in Lumion. Edited down in Adobe Premiere. I wanted to just test out the functionality of the Sketch3D plants in a real project and see how they rendered or affected sketchup's speed. So far, so good. Believe it or not, this is over 2 million polys and I was still able to operate smoothly. I even had to explode the plants down to get them to show up in Lumion, but sketchup still seemed to handle the scene okay. Although, I did need to export it in a few separate DAE files.
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Excellent work Adam!!!
Your wrought iron furniture is floating however. -
Ah yes, I see the floating chairs now. It would be nice if Lumion had a merge function to add a scene in pieces. It's quite difficult to get things lined up with no snapping or numerical adjustments. Good eye though and thanks for pointing it out.
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Brilliant mate!
Lots of vegetation
SU never buckled...wow!I really like the Lumion output, not too crazy about the Dynascape vegetation however it's just not realistic enough.
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@earthmover said:
...It would be nice if Lumion had a merge function to add a scene in pieces...
Well, you can do it manually... However certainly it would be nice to have a built-in feature to speed up the process.
@solo said:
...not too crazy about the Dynascape vegetation however it's just not realistic enough...
Also true. But some of the Lumion vegetation is just 2D (some of the flowers and such) and not really good for top views.
Nice work, Adam!
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Beauty!
I think one can push Sketchup pretty good as far as geometry goes. It's not Z-brush, but what the heck.
Nice modeling!
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I have a criticism. Just when I think I have made a decent presentation, people like you raise the bar! Sun sparkling on the fountain! Nicey-nice piano music! What the hell's next? (Plan's beautiful too).
Congratulations
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Very nice work!! I like the details (material choices, ledge height, and enclosure). I would love to see photos of how it turns out!
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Sorry, got busy and missed a lot of comments. Thanks to everyone.
I did use a bit of layer management to handle the large scene. The dynascape collection uses a ton of component instances, so it helps when in sketchup. The poly count of the scene in Sketchup was around 550K. However I was unable to get the scene to open in 3ds Max. How ironic is that! The reason being is that Max triangulates everything, which ballooned the scene by six times the size in Sketchup. The .dae export to get it into Lumion took separating the model into 4 pieces and then re-assembling. It was a learning experience. Next time I'll most likely just import one plant at a time and then copy and place in whatever external program I'm using. Once in Lumion though, there was absolutely no slow down in frame rate and rendering went smoothly.
Pete, I agree with the realism of the plants. However, I've found that they are pretty well organized and it's really easy to swap out leaves for foreground plants. Only takes a few minutes. I know that the Dynascape team set a file size budget for most of their plants. They had to sacrifice somewhere....usually with texturing. Really it's no different than Onyx plants, which are great, but usually need retextured for them to look realistic.
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excellent work adam. love the landscape design
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just awesssssssssssssome
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Very, very nice. I especially like the approaches to the waterfall, but would have been nicer to slow the speed down to capture it all. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Ben, Nomer and Dave. I agree on the animation speed. It was more a less just a test for myself that never went to the client. I was really just testing out Sketch3D plants. I may do a more serious one as portfolio piece down the road.
The waterfall and spa were existing on site. I was able to take a photo of the waterfall, mask it out and then import it into Sketchup as an image. For the rocks I essentially just traced around each stone in the image with the Freehand tool and push pulled them to varying thicknesses. Then I subdivided each stone with Artisan and projected the site photo onto them, using a corresponding normal map in the render engine. It caused stretching in the top view, but from the patio level vantage points, it looked a lot like the real thing. I used TIG's drape Cpoints and Triangulate points to make the waterfall itself, adding some thickness with ThomThom's Shell plugin. I also used the Hatch Faces plugin by jolran to quadrify the spa water plane and then sculpted it a little with Artisan to bend the reflection on the surface.
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Nice work EarthMover.
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Wow! this is some of your best work!! Really shows off the various products you used too- they should pay you to promote their products
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Thanks Gus.
Troy, wouldn't that be great! But then again what fun is an artist who isn't starvin'!
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