beautiful! the only thing i miss is some detail to bring more life to the scene, like people, cars, animals or something like this.

thank you guys!

i knew someone would notice my laziness on that present paper material...i actually used a metallic car paint material on this because i wanted to finish the render

Thank you all for your tips...i made the adjustments you suggested and i guess this will be my final entry in this competition

Thanks Victor I'll make another entry in this competition where i'll change the lighting

nice! thanks for the link ely!

Hmm yes there aren't...i enabled them for the point light in the lamp but it looked strange.i guess i'll have to check on it again

Thank you for your comment!

For the floor i wanted to simulate a kind of rough, used parquett floor, so i pushed the bump. But i guess you're right that a little less would be more here

This is my first entry in this competition: http://www.sketchuptexture.com/2013/12/mini-challenge-christmas-2013.html

Took the interior of my current university project (detached house thread in the WIP gallery) for this. My intention was to show the atmosphere in a home on christmas morning when still everyone is asleep.

Rendered with Thea TR1.

nice modelling...so now make a forest with it in sketchup

very nice renders...that "semi-open stair solution" looks very cool. never seen something like this before

I want to see too

i guess i will invest some more and will get a new mainboard and a i7 instead of keeping the old mainboard...thank you for your advise

when the mxm is shown in the maxwell scene editor you just go into the sketchup model, select the face you want to apply the mxm to, then go back to the maxwell scene manager and click on the "assign to selected entities" button (the small cube with the red side). inside sketchup you will only get a colour (or when you click on "copy texture" the diffuse texture) on the selected face, but when you render it it should display the mxm material with all its properties on that face.

hope that is understandable with my poor english skills

hey,

i'm thinking about updating my work pc hardware so it's more suited for rendering. since the last time i updated my CPU and motherboard has past quite some time, so i'm not really up to date with that.

I already have updated my graphics card to a Geforce GTX 670 and also put 8 GB of ram in my win 7 64 bit system. now i'm considering to update my CPU.

At the moment there is a AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core CPU in my system....now i don't have a clue if there are some kind of new sockets or mainboards or if i just can buy a new CPU for the mainboard i already have (which would the solution i'd prefer). Or would you guys recommend to get a new mainboard and then buy the most up to date CPU?

The question would also be if i will have to reinstall Windows when i change my hardware like this.

As you see I'm not really up to date with CPUs and mainboards, so any tip would be helpfull!

looks like a new one for the maxwell gallery any updates this far?

thank you guys very much! the lighting is indeed dark. being a WIP the only interior light source this far is the lamp in the entrance area. there will be much more light from the inside in the final images

@daniel said:

Looking great. That top step, in front of the door, should be deeper; it should be considered a landing, not a step.

yes i totally agree there with you Daniel...the problem is that i modelled this after the photo the tutor of this seminar provided as a guideline and there the front stair is really built like this

you do great models Daniel! i would love to see them rendered

at the moment i'm concentrating on building the interior, so that the inside of the house won't be empty as i'm planning to illuminate it. here you can see the entrance part of it.

nice one Simon! how did you do the brake discs, they look pretty convincing!