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    • N Offline
      notareal
      last edited by

      Some huge project, thanks for sharing.

      Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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        castromann
        last edited by

        truly impressive model - would love to see some higher quality renders though. keep it up man this is madness...

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          MrWip
          last edited by

          Klog, a great thanks for sharing this amazing model... it really deserved to go in the "most impressive sketchup model" topic !

          Facing such an interesting space I couldn't resist doing a test render :

          CATHEDRALE.jpg
          It was done in Thea, with a really short setting time (only adjustment for the stained glass windows and the metal fence), render (3000 pix high) for about 20hours (I actually forgot to stop it during the night, so it should have been good enough after a few hours only...). Really small post pro in PS (mainly some color corrections). Reduce for posting.

          Some details out of the big image :
          CATHEDRALE detail 1.jpg
          CATHEDRALE detail 2.jpg

          ... I'll try to find time to make more images, this model is really inspiring..

          By the way, some remarks: the covering of the pillars looks a big large to me, and not so realistic in term of proportions, and their texture is lacking of precision... but this are small problems regarding to the amount of work you put in this cathedral !

          Keep up the good work !

          http://www.wip-archi.com

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          • artysmediaA Offline
            artysmedia
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            @mrwip said:

            Klog, a great thanks for sharing this amazing model... it really deserved to go in the "most impressive sketchup model" topic !

            Facing such an interesting space I couldn't resist doing a test render

            Yeah, it is an impressive model. It should go to the "most impressive sketchup model" topic... 👍

            Great re-render MrWip! 😮 😮 😮

            Working with: Win7 64 bit OS - Core i5 - 2,27GHz and 8GB RAM

            Blog: Artysmedia

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            • K Offline
              Klog
              last edited by

              @MrWip --
              @unknownuser said:

              By the way, some remarks: the covering of the pillars looks a big large to me, and not so realistic in term of proportions, and their texture is lacking of precision... but this are small problems regarding to the amount of work you put in this cathedral !
              First, these are great "prelimenary" renders. Can't wait to see the results of your tweaking/changing the shaders in the future. Show me your stuff! Yes I too thought the pillars were too large and so they are now 75% of the original and could be smaller yet. And I ran up against the limits of 2GB pagefile for Kerkythea, even with some of the tricks I learned; so I reduced the resolution of all the shaders and chopped avout 15MB out of the source file. Even then I could only render the inside by stripping off the north and south porches, gutting the Royal entry towers, and stripping nearly all the flying buttresses as well as the terraine and exterior shaders. That got it to ~50MB and then Kerkythea could handle the interior with my machine. So I think higher resolution is for someone else to do for this project. Have at it. Thanks for your excitement about this.

              @Artysmedia -- Thanks for your enthusiasm on this too; show us some re-renders from you, too.
              Klog

              Klog http://www.tetontimberframe.com

              Win 7 Pro Dell Precision M4500 4Gig 4 threads @ 2.9 GB/S
              Skp 7 Pro & 8

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                Fletch
                last edited by

                Thanks for sharing the model, Klog,
                A couple quick renders with Twilight Render.
                The old cathedrals always felt to me to have high contrast dark and light areas something like this.


                gothic-cathedral-01-web.jpg


                gothic-cathedral-02-mood.jpg

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

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                  Klog
                  last edited by

                  Very nice Fletch. I would have fone more of this myself, but I have trouble knowing i9f my (digitasl) computer screen is "telling me the truth" because if I move out of NORMAL to the screen it changes the contrasts. Some earlier ones came out too dark ...
                  Is it the thin glass that gets so much more light into the building or is it the Gamma?
                  Thanks and do a lot more

                  Klog http://www.tetontimberframe.com

                  Win 7 Pro Dell Precision M4500 4Gig 4 threads @ 2.9 GB/S
                  Skp 7 Pro & 8

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                    Fletch
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    Is it the thin glass that gets so much more light into the building or is it the Gamma?

                    I almost always adjust Exposure/Gamma on interior images. (or exteriors for that matter) It's as natural as a normal camera adjusting exposure when inside a building.

                    In this case, I did some post-pro only to get the lights and darks looking how I wanted them. I have no idea how successful it is (with the image of the choir looking up) on your screen, or anyone's screen for that matter. I'm sure it looks completely different on every screen. 😕 I only know it looks "good" to me on mine.

                    If you are interested, here's something about how to calibrate your monitor or screen. See also the basics of screen calibration here.

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

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                      Fletch
                      last edited by

                      A couple more.


                      gothic-cathedral-03-GodRays-web.jpg


                      gothic-cathedral-04-LightFromAbove.jpg

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

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                      • Rich O BrienR Online
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
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                        👍

                        Tá sé go hálainn mo chara 😉

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                        • artysmediaA Offline
                          artysmedia
                          last edited by

                          @fletch said:

                          A couple more.

                          I like a lot the first one! 😲

                          Working with: Win7 64 bit OS - Core i5 - 2,27GHz and 8GB RAM

                          Blog: Artysmedia

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                            unigami
                            last edited by

                            @fletch said:

                            A couple more.

                            Just beautiful...and so real I can almost hear echoes!

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                              Klog
                              last edited by

                              I have just created my first video of the Interior of this cathedral and it very clearly shows that is is the first. Created from Kerkythea in 600x800 format (thanks ) and is posted at Yutube site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8COiJmGZCk . I have a lot to learn about movie making so any comments for improvement to that end are very welcome. View the Youtube video in FULL screen format or you miss half of it ...

                              Klog http://www.tetontimberframe.com

                              Win 7 Pro Dell Precision M4500 4Gig 4 threads @ 2.9 GB/S
                              Skp 7 Pro & 8

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                                Roger
                                last edited by

                                The camera can't show the full range of color that our eyes see in a stained glass window. When I shoot stained glass windows I shoot a 3 to five stop bracket and layer the images in PhotoShop. Then going pane by pane, I use only the exposure that gives the most representative detail. I the case of this cathedral it would probably take as much time as building the original. So don't feel bad about having to go to extra lengths to handle the dynamics of th exposure range.

                                http://www.azcreative.com

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                                  massimo Moderator
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                                  Thanks klog. However the new file says "7" in the name but is still saved in "8" version. 😉

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                                    nomeradona
                                    last edited by

                                    we are using this model in our Facebook challenge. Thanks again Klog for this excellent model.

                                    visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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                                      tomislavm
                                      last edited by

                                      My God,how long did You need to render this movie?
                                      Is there any suggestion for that render?

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                                        Klog
                                        last edited by

                                        Recently I realized that not everyone uses version 8 Sketchup and could not use the available downloading option. I have corrected the omission and here is the link to download a version 7 .skp file of the complete cathedral. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40864073/v7%20Gothic%20Cathedral%20clean.skp Also Nomeradona informs me he is using this model for the October Challenge of his Sketchup-Vray Facebook group and we shall post the "winners and runners-up" here as well.

                                        EDIT:10/20/11
                                        the above link IS NOW version 7.skp

                                        Klog http://www.tetontimberframe.com

                                        Win 7 Pro Dell Precision M4500 4Gig 4 threads @ 2.9 GB/S
                                        Skp 7 Pro & 8

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                                          Klog
                                          last edited by

                                          Massimo
                                          Thanks for the heads-up. The URL has been corrected as has the version (I checked this time in the "Model info" dialog). Good rendering to you ...

                                          Klog http://www.tetontimberframe.com

                                          Win 7 Pro Dell Precision M4500 4Gig 4 threads @ 2.9 GB/S
                                          Skp 7 Pro & 8

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                                          • massimoM Offline
                                            massimo Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Nice model. Thanks for sharing. 👍

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