thomtom yes arroway textures can disarm sketchup especially when you trying export su to some render program. In my case to maxwell. I think its because of texture size.

I'm working with very large textures and I think su offten crashes because of that reason. It just can't work with very large files. You can operate inside sketchup but forget the export. Well that's just my guess. At home I have x64 bit os and there are no such problems - not so offten.

Wow! Great idea Richard. Moon looks perfect!

I need 64 bit support

Dark Ambient, DnB and sometimes elektro.
Now in top:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNa1AZpmndA

Soap Skin & Bubble can do this:
http://www.tensile-structures.de/sb_software.html

I'm too late Gaieus

Oh yess now I see that they are onyx Only onyx has those weird branches and trunks but only if you look very close to that trees

Very very nice work!

I think Nvidia is just a little better when working in sketchup but this is just what i feel when working in sketchup at home and work.

Nice work Richard!
What did You used for vegetation? Trees are 3d models?

Good Start! Add more deatail to Your building first.

Thanks Solo for reply!

Ok Ill try 3ds and then tell You how it's work.

And how can I do that? That welding vertices stuff?

Hi all!
Long time no posts from me
Here is another problem:

Some weird ripples apear on surface when rendering. My guess is that something is wrong with vertex normals. Geometry is made in Sktechup then exported as OBJ added some adjustments in Modo and then imported in Maxwell render.
Here You can see some of geometry and normals:

I'm really stuck with this problem

This is the project (work in progress) where I need that (censored) grass

Result:

Problem was with normals. Maxwell used surface normals and vertex normals and that made those riples. I deleted surface normals in modo and now displacement rendering is correct.

PS. Remove surface normal map and then freeze geometry.

Thanks for help! I just hope next su releases will contain some more texturing options

Yes. Center round detail is separated from main column with group.

Yes I have tried projection stuff. It work's but not 100%. As You can see in attachmen - texture is stretched at column sides. I just think that this question must be included in next sketchup release. Maybe some plugin can handle such situations. UV tools doesn't.

Dave but as result I will have terrible tiling. Model size is not a problem for me. My pc can handle very large and complex models - I just need them to be complex for my work.

Damn! After closer look I can see that problem still exists:
Edited Column

Projected texture streches on both sides and that is not what I need.

Thanks for fast reply! Here is that column:
Column.skp

Ok I'm finally complete that crappy column After some adjustments and tweakings and more and more here is the result :