lovely images i guess the shine around the outer lines on the night scene is because of a masking layer in photoshop for the sky? that's a bit disturbing.

looking really nice! are you planning to render it?

aaah finally found the christmas mood i was missing till now! thanks david!

i personally would recommend maxwell. there is the standalone plugin for sketchup which is easy to use and with 75 $ quiet affordable and when you reached thd point where you need something more powerfull you can update to the full rendersuite. i myself for example took the special offer for standalone plugin customers to update to the full suite for half the price. now this offer is outdated but i guess that wasn't the last time they did something like this.

hello elisei, first i'd like to thank you for your awesome car-tutorial i bought! with my limited experience i think i can give you the advice not to focus on lumion to much. it's nice for playing around and have quick results but it will always lack the realism you are looking for. i would rather concentrate on rendering with thea,vray or maxwell or so. it's way more complicated to learn these programms but worth the effort and also more professional.

thanks Victor, i'll try to add some interior! the renders were done in maxwell studio.

yes Pete, it's for swimming. at first glance at this system it may look insanitary, but it actually works quiet well.

i'm sorry. i didn't mean to be offensive and didn't realise that there were hollidays in the states

the pool concept is a semi-natural one. the two zone technique allows the water to get cleanded by the plants. i don't know if that technique has been established in the states yet and it's quiet difficult to explain with my poor english. here's a picture of a real one i found on the net:

hm...i'm not sure what getting-no-comments mean on sketchucation. when posts are bad you get hints how to improve your work, when pictures are good everyone cheers...so what's up with these pictures? too boring to bother?

lovely renders! and i also like the design of the house

in this scene i tried using instances for the birch tree and it works pretty well as it reduces the render time

i really love this model!! i just bought elisei's book about car-modelling and i hope that i will be able to do such beautifull modelling some day soon (i'm estimating somewhere between five and ten years )

here's another "peek over the garden fence" - picture.

Hey Victor, thanks for your comment! The problem with the glass was, that the background behind the camera wasn't modelled yet and i the reflections the glass was giving wasn't satisfying. Also the interieur of the building is empty, so i couldn't apply translucent glass.

The grass falling into the water is part of the design, as this is a swimming pond (i don't know if that's the correct term in english). I agree with you that the barbecue is getting to much attention. I will make some rendering where the architecture is better seen.

The tree is a X-Frog tree from the Europe 2 library.

Hey,

here some renders of a project i did during my internship this summer. actually i didn't like the design the client wanted, but at least i can play a little with the model renderwise

Rendered with Maxwell up to SL 14. More pictures will come

...and a daytime version

Hello,

since i'm new to the maxwell render suite (have been using the standalone plugin before), i've been playing alot with the new possibilities i have now and put together a small scene for testing materials. no fancy modelling here, just lights and materials

rendered for 10hrs up to SL 14 (adaptive mode for displacement really slows down the render time, but in this scene i thought it would be worth it).

maybe i'll work on the scene a little more and develop a bathroom out of it.

overall really nice, love the lighting...but the asphalt material tiles pretty badly. messes the scene up a bit for me.

your approaches work perfectly for me i've attached a grainy version (didn't have the patience to wait longer ) of a material test where i scaled the materials in sketchup.

although there is one thing annoying me: when i used the standalone plugin and i klicked the button on the plugin-bar to browse for an mxm on my disk, it opened a windows explorer window where i could search for the file. now with the full-suite-plugin it always opens MXED which somehow takes annoying 2-3 seconds to open. Also the file browser in MXED is pretty confusing to look at in my opinion.
So: Is there somewhere an option where i can change it back to open with the windows explorer?

thank you very much for your kind answers! i'll try your approaches when i'm back on my working computer on monday and give a feedback if you guys are interested.

i will give this a try solo. but doing it like this i dont get the sense of studio as i thought the workflow would be: model in sketchup > set up scene and choose materials in studio > render in the maxwell render application