I love the trees
Im a big fan of the conceptual/NPR styles and I think these trees would be great for them.

Regarding your render I think that the grass is a little too big, might have to scale it down a bit.

Looks good though

It’s a tough one for me to answer as in my professional career I have used SketchUp for many different things not to mention for many different service lines within our company. (We are a global consulting based company)

Primarily I use SketchUp for construction based work, but that will vary from road designs, bridge design, photomontage implementation of proposed work, conceptual based renders, arch visualisation, creation of models for military simulation (VBS2) and the list goes on. I am based in our Landscape Architecture department however I will do work for anyone within our company who needs me particular skills.
I typically use SketchUp as a stepping stone to bring into other programs, 3ds max, VBS2, Unity, Photoshop and so on.

And who can forget, I do use SketchUp for fun as well however my personal time to use SketchUp is almost next to nothing now

well i did send in an error report and i think i asked for a t-shirt but have not heard back from them yet.

im still holding onto hope that ill get some sort of reply

maybe i might try add some dishes to the tower when i get some time.

Pretty sweet photo though, looks like there were great conditions up there

Yes i have dabbled a little bit in the cryENGINE and i can tell you from just a quick play its quite powerful for realtime visualisation. Albeit it is still the gamer type realism not photorealistic (like Lumion).

I was experimenting with the engine just after i completed a project where i was bringing my sketchup models into the VBS2 engine (Virtual Battle Space 2) which is a militarty simulation, essentially a game engine though. With the use of the PlayUp Tools bringing your models into the CryENGINE is pretty straight forward IF you follow a few specific rules.

Havnt really had much time to play around with the engine lately though, just dont have the spare time....

cheers, wasnt really sure what i was going for. Just thought something like this might look good with a bit of a complex model. Was mainly just playing around with lighting though

Hey everyone,
I have been working on this model of a 330kv transmission pylon for work and thought id do a quick little render.
Modelled by myself from CAD files and rendered with Podium.

Just to let you all know i just signed up and downloaded the free programs today.

Hopefully i can get some time set aside to check them out

@unknownuser said:

Podium doesn't run inside of SketchUp, and there's a 64 bit version available. So that's not the issue, I think.

Correct I am running 64 bit Podium v2.8 and it does not render within SketchUp.
The computer i have for rendering is specifically design for crunching numbers and rendering, only thing it needs is a better GPU (which im working on) in the hopes to be using Lumion, just need to get work to sign off on it.

I will get in contact with Podium to see what the problem could be, I might try rendering a basic model and see how large i can go though

Gaieus,
Installing Kerkythea 64bit was a little tricky as not all the files actually get installed but once it is and you render in it, it flys compared to the 32bit version!

nah just tried a quick search but couldnt really come up with anything specific, like i said im just curious and thought someone here might have done a massive render before.

In Kerkythea (the 64 bit boost version) i have actually rendered an image at about 50000x30000 pixels, cant remember if i tried any larger though.