Looks great, Adorno.

@boofredlay said:

Actually he could speak perfect English and 476 other languages, he just had such foul language they had to bleep out all of his dialogue.

Hearing the "un-bleeped" versions of the films would be quite amusing.

All that technology, and advances in artifical intelligence, yet they cannot program an astromech droid (R2D2) to speak in a language they can all understand.

Congrats, Toby.

What about Flicker?

I've got the review version - looks like they've made quite a few improvements and additions.

Very nice, Jan.
If they are anything like the retirees in the retirement home in my neighborhood, half of them will be in power scooters, terrorizing pedestrians.

Very nicely done, Harold. Interested in seeing what you do with these (assume it is for a scene your modeling).

Luftwaffe uniforms were blue-gray; yours appear dark charcoal. The Third Reich had some neat uniforms, but their designs, and Germany's "uniformania" was not a purely Third Reich manifistation, but developed under the Second German Empire and Prussian militarism.

The beam-column connection looks wonky. Took me a while to figure it out - using the same material on the beam and on the column "capital" and the two being in the same plane, they rendered as a single object. Making a second, maybe third, material out of the one, slightly darker/lighter, could help differentiate the different pieces. Also, traditionally, the face of the beam lines up with the neck of the column.

It seems like an opportunity to create a focal point over the grill, but the only thing highlighted is a plain brick wall.

Nice renderings and use of textures.

Looking through all my technical books, I don't find any kind of names for these, just examples of corner framing - except for the one in the lower left hand corner, that uses clips to attach the drywall; one book referred to it as a superinsulated corner.

Good start, Katt. To me, the window in the first image (direction of grain, detailing, etc.) and the loss of detail in the kitchen are the biggest areas of improvement.

very nice, Roo. Floor looks great.

Very nice, as usual, Jason. I think you've out did yourself on realism on that first, exterior rendering!

It boggles the mind that someone can see that building, which appears to be in good condition, and they would want to tear it down.

That flat horizontal cornice on the porch gable doesn't look good, in my not too humble opinion. It lacks the level of detail found on the rest of the house.

You want easy? Make it flat, or install a stone lintel.

Design the arch (number of bricks, centerpoint of arch, etc.)and map it out with guidelines. Create one brick. Rotate-copy it from the centerpoint 'til you have all the required bricks to make your arch. You may have to adjust your brick texture on occassion. Hide the lines defining the individual bricks. (consider doing this as a separate model, then skip ahead to the last paragraph below)

On large, more complex arches I've modeled the bricks and mortar separately. But, then, I am anal retentive and crazy.

If you have a lot of arches without much variation in the brick pattern/color, you might consider saving the arch as a 2d image, cropping it, and then creating a new material to use on all the arches.

nice image. You need to work on the brick arches over the garage doors. I wish my lawn was that nice!

Damn, those look great.

@rich o brien said:

€5 on....

May 5th 2013 will herald SU 2013

€100 on....

the next day will herald the usual whining after a SU update

Really? You think people will wait 'til the next day?

Dunno, Chris....I can't help thinking this SketchUp program will be a short-lived, flash-in-the-pan sort of program.

JUST KIDDING! Congrats, and good luck on your new adventure.

Rebuild it? To what end? I would imagine the stones have eroded over time, and some may have broken. Also, I know they've found some post holes, suggesting wooden poles. Did it incorporate a wooden structure? With a roof? I know recent archaeology has unearthed some new information, but I believe there are still more questions. Any reconstruction would be at best an educated conjecture.

over-achiever!