woooohoooo...the solution was that near! thank you very much jason! you're my hero of the day!

thank you guys, i'll give your approaches a try.

nevertheless i still hope that the support will give me an answer that i should pay the difference between the discount price of the max format and the regular of the 3ds format.

that was definetly an once in a lifetime mistake

I´ve contacted them days ago and didn't get any answer. i guess the problem will be that there was a discount on the .max format which isn't on the .3ds ones.

i've made a stupid mistake buying two xfrog libraries. i bought them in the 3DS max format because i thought it's the same like .3DS . now i can't open the models in maxwell as it only opens .3ds formats.
i just installed the test version of 3ds max to convert the .max files into .3ds. the problem now is, when i convert them it don't convert the layers on the file and i get a .3ds file which only has one layer where i can't put different textures on.
is there a way to convert the files with the layers? or is there a simpler way to get the .max files into maxwell studio?

i guess novena is right, i have used this maple tree from the warehouse too and it's really heavy geometry!

looking very good this far. too bad you are using a render engine inside of sketchup, maxwell studio for example wouldn't have any problems with this file size. i personally prefer 3d grass over photoshop grass, but i guess that can't be achieved inside sketchup and v-ray with the file size this big.

looks like the trees are darkening the room inside pretty much?

my shot in the blue would be that this 'cruise missile' is a zeppelin

looks promising! are you planning to render it when it's finished?

hey dale, thanks for your suggestions. i will do a render of the areas, which are not visible in this pictures and more afar from the building. they are supposed to stimulate the free play of the children.

hey Aerilius, thanks for your comment. i definetly understand your point. the thing is that my prof was looking for a pretty minimalistic concept for the garden. i personally also think that organic shapes are better for children to interact with, but in the conception progress i discarded them as the building itself has very geometric shapes which wouldn't go along organic landscape shapes.

Thank you Rafael for your comment. I agree that on the third image there's something missing in the background. As it's a WIP i will try to integrate that in the progress. Also i want to add some people to liven the scenes up.

nice model and render...my critic would be the materials. you have bricks, you have concrete-grey paving, you have the beige-looking gravel and rocks...they don't fit together in my opinion. for the paving i would go with a sandstone polygon paving and for the walls i would use sandstone too. that would fit better in the mediterrean character of this model.

this is a student project i'm doing for my university. the purpose is to build a kindergarten which is mainly designed for gifted children. the building was designed by a student from the architecture faculty and the garden is my project here.

sketchup + maxwell render suite + a little photoshop

c&c of course very welcome!

nice! Tim Taylor would be proud of you

wooow...i wish i had the patience to model like this

really nice renders! and of course also congrats on winning the competition!

beautiful as always...can you tell some details about the different approach please?

impressive! reminds me of the nautilus speakers from bowers & wilkins...

wow! i would love to see more perspectives!