Ok, i just now finished the bathroom #2 from the the house
essentially the other bathroom is just a mirror of this one.
what do you guys and gals think?? 
I still have a lot more to do to the interior of this house.....hope i finish before any work comes in again
P.S.
the black line inside the TUB.... i noticed that after rendering, so i fixed it, but didn't have time to re-render the image.
@tim said:
You might like to consider not having a door directly from the parking area into the kitchen; it's an easy route for petrol fumes and exhaust gas to get into the most smell sensitive room in the house. It looks to me that you could
a) swap the kitchen with the utility room and thus have easier access from kitchen to dining
b) block the kitchen/garage door and instead have a door from garage to outside, pretty much next to your main entrance
ok i see what you mean, hmmm....but it's a pretty open space (garage) so the fumes wouldn't build up right???
you can see in the 3th image (perspective) that the open area is exactly the same side as the door to the kitchen,
i think i wouldn't have any problems with fume build up....or am i wrong???
really great work mate, i always love to see your post, because the images you post "just for practice"
i would like to be able to do them for actual images LOL.
great work mate 
@honoluludesktop said:
In America, dwelling is the building or spaces that make up the whole house. Foyer is a room (not a hall) from which you go to other spaces. I think that it is a meaningfull space, but it is not used that often where I live.
Sorry for my ignorance, what is your language?
ok now i have a better understanding of this, thanks for the info mate,
i'll definitly change it, because "foyer" is actually what i want anyways.
our main language here is "Papiamentu" but because we are part of the Netherlands, dutch is also a dominant language here
@sir said:
will you not want the kitchen to lead onto the patio tho, even if you're cooking with bbq you still need access to fridge and implements no?
yes your right...but again that's why i'm going to build an outdoor lounge
maybe i don't know the name pretty good, but you know bar, grill, etc.
i'll see if i can get a refrence image so i can show you what i mean,
because i don't know how to explain it, because agai egnlish is not my first language so there are some limits
hahahaha while doing a search on google for what i want,
i found out it's just called "outdoor kitchens"
here is the refrence of what i want to do outside
@honoluludesktop said:
Rachid, We are both islanders.
Yes and also with a nice warm climate, all year long LOL.
@honoluludesktop said:
I would label the space "dwelling", foyer. Mahalo.
Ok, see English is not my main language, so this question is because of that:
why the name change, what's the difrence between a foyer and a dwelling?
@gaieus said:
The same "cultural difference" could be valid to Mat's kitchen question. We call such (proposed) "open" kitchens "American kitchens" and not everyone is used to / fond of them here (although if you can have a separate dining room, it can indeed be handy at times).
yesss.....
you do understand my point of view
@aidus said:
That's really good start!
thnx mate
@sir said:
what goes in the 'dwelling' room? its tricky to crit without a gen layout
I'll update the first post with an CAD exported image so you can have a better look at how I initially drew it in CAD.
@sir said:
but the kitchen looks a bit of a funny shape, it does tend to be where people gravitate too, maybe consider moving it closer to the dining/living rooms and openign it up a bit.
100% agree with you, don't take this the wrong way, but because this house is for me i did not concider the normal behavior of people, if i would of done this project for a client, i would of certanly changed the kitchen's design with the crit you have given me, because again I agree with your point 100%,
I'm my own client, and normally i don't tend to go to the kitchen that much,
I love hanging out outdoors, you know? grills and stuff like that
i plan to put an outdoor lounge also.
@sir said:
are you going to consider natural ventilation, cos the sticking up bit in the middle of your house (shown on elevs) would be good for it
Yes, but i do have a problem, I did add windows at the top part of the livingroom/diningroom, but is there a better way for natural ventilation??
and again thank you for your crit and hope you don't think I don't want crit about the house,
I really do want crits and comments, because only that way one can grow,
this is also why i gave you my opinion on why i have that layout for the kitchen
[updated the first post]
@honoluludesktop said:
21D, Good to see your design. Can I ask where you live? I am curious because you placed the bathrooms adjacent to a garden, and the back yard (bigger then the side yard). Is it a cultural or personal preference that causes this? In my part of the world, I would have reversed the relationship.
Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, wonderfull place
and it's a little bit of my personal preference, and also cultural, we mostly have a bigger back yard than the front and side, it's mostly for the privecy.
Hi there one and all,
I've had some free time on my hands lately and decided to finally start to model,
what may be my future house,
It's still a work in progress, and till now i have not textured it, I'm currently all done (hopefully) with the modeling of the house, and I'm starting to model the interior, and yesterday i finished the kitchen and am currently doing the bathrooms.
here are the images of the house,
your comment on the design would be very much apreciated.
P.S.
SketchUp 7 + V-ray for SU 1.5 + PhotoShop
@silver_shadow said:
Well i must say..i like vetorworks a bit more than autocad. But it comes down to user preferences.
You can draw just a sfast as you can in autocad if you get to know it better and set up some basic shortcuts, and it also do have a 3d package in it, really bad, but overall i like it. worth while learning it.
It has got layers, classes and saved sheets. Layers you can group all your pens which is switched on and off into layers and have them as groups switched on or off. It has got viewports also. Further on on the new vectorworks 2008 you have pens and fills you can make transparent, like if you want to make glass, draw in a class you set up called glass and give it transparency like su and it will show it like that in cad, anything behind it will still show depending on transparency.So id say its not a bad program to learn and also quite easy to learn it too. If you walk into a firm not knowing vworks, ill bet you you will be running the program by the end of the week, if no one really helps you.
thnx for the advice mate, i will definitly try it out.
@silver_shadow said:
The plans were done in Vectorworks, exported to pdf, and imported to photoshop cs2
The elevations were done in Su, rendered in Vray and touched up in cs2
Sections were first made from su, brought into vectorworks for cleanup and then pdf and cs2
But final composition were made in Photoshop. Glad you like it
SO as a vectorworks user, do you recomend a AutoCAD user to switch or use both??
because i've seen some great work (PLANS) done by Vectorworks...and yours makes me want to learn this software even more, and also to improve my presentations.
@silver_shadow said:
here you go
12 panel each one is a A1 sheet.So the presentation was quite a huge board
Hi there Silver,
nice too see you again....and really great stuff you got there...
one Q though, which software did you use for the PLANS??? they look amazing
@holmes1977 said:
Hi 21 D
Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion
Thnx mate...helps out a lot
@unknownuser said:
there's quite a few models of the Barcelona Pavillon around. Check the Warehouse and PushPullBar. My own I'd rather not post as it isn't finished yet.
no prob mate.....now that I know what's it called, i definitely search around for a model to render.
@unknownuser said:
Tried something npr for fun.
hi stinkie...nice work
one Q, what's the name of the model, i've been wanting to do a render of it too, cuase i've seen a lot of nice render of it, and wanted to give it a try also.
maybe you can post the model if it's not to much to ask, and make it another "render this" project.
@dave r said:
I'm just wondering if there is a quick and easy way to read a list of color names and their RGB values and create a library. There's at least 120 colors I'd like to have in a library and I'd rather not have to enter each one by hand.
Hi dave, do you mind sharing that library of named colors??
First of all, thank you to all for you comments....
I am now working on a brighter version of the model.
@unknownuser said:
....Only other thing I might mention would be the pillows on the bed. The material seems great on the blanket but for some reason it seems to have a white halo around it, particularly on the pillow closest to the camera.
All fairly minor fixes though for such a great model. You've done a wonderful job on the textures in my opinion.
Is this for a client or more of a marketing tool?
I changed the material of the pillows because i couldn't get a realistic looking effect for them,
the halo is due to the color of the bed it self, that is why the sheet does not give this halo.
so i left the pillows for now with a normal diffuse color.
and nope this is just one of a series of projects i'm trying to model for a personal portfollio.
@dzinetech said:
Just visit both sites and its quite obvious to see what he stole from Solo's site
@solo said:
No big deal, unless Stinkie has issue with it (he helped me with my wording as he is a copywriter)feel free to use it, I have no objections by the way.
@unknownuser said:
I gave Rachid a slap on the wrist. I am sure that gave him food for thought. Case closed.
As I was saying ... render's a tad too gloomy. Could do with a bit more contrast, as well.
As I said before I did this in a rush for a quick launch of my site, but also does not rectify my error, so I went home and changed the text immediately, I do apologize to both STINKIE and SOLO for my wrong doing, and hope that this does not affect your criticism of my work or myself. Again my sincerest apologies.
@liam887 said:
Just a question? How did you create the blanket in SU, did you use a plugin to create the folds and creases? Ive always struggled with cloth like surfaces in SU and have always had to import them from MAX as a 3Ds.
it is actually part of a tutorial that SOLO made and with help of the SANDBOX tool and the Sub&Smooth plugin.
@unknownuser said:
There's a bit of text on your site that sounds very familiar to me. Am I hallucinating?
nope....that is because i wanted to launch the site in a rush and still haven't had time to personalize it... 
i will be changing that mate
what do you think of the "Pad"???
Hi all,
this is a interior project i've been working on....
and i would love to hear from you some C&C,
[Modeled in SU - Rendered with Vray4SU]
thnx for wathing,
Rachid de Wind
@andeciuala said:
hi guis i'll try to make a totorial this night about how to make a realistic glass with liquid inside. And a little set of studio shot.
that would be verry apreciated mate
@unknownuser said:
@gaganraj said:
boof-
how are you liking modo? nice renders!
Thanks. I like it. I still have much to learn but yes, I really like it.
Oh, and all the textures I used were created directly in Modo. Modeling in SU.
hi there Boo, i was wondering if you could help me out with MODO.....
i have recently begun to use Modo and this is my result so far
As you can see, my glass and liquid material are not so good
and seeing that you got that part down, would you mind helping me out??
i've only been using Modo for 2 days now....and personaly i find it a very good software....and i had no trouble yet with the transition from SU to MODO...but hey it's only been 2 days , never know what's ahead.
