Tx Sheik, I understand the plugin works with PC's but I have found no one yet who used Maxwell on a Mac. I thought there were a few more. Maybe the recession hit the Mac crowd harder ... There was a guy who wrote MXM reporter as a plugin and also run into to a coding problem with the path to the MXM library. He solved it somehow. I am afraid at NL they have other priorities right now. I have several different system and they all have exactly the same problem using autoMXM with the new plugin. If you test it with small files its not a problem but slightly larger files take forever to export were the previous plugin exports within seconds. Francois

That's interesting Thomas - you've made me check what could be wrong and I've found that I've had a fault in my template - I've now created a new template (I have my company logo as a watermark) and it now works!! Also guides now act correctly. I can now email the files as well so it appears I had a glitch when creating my template - all is well I apologise for speaking badly of the program. cheers john

you're right, I used shift in the images. Works great actually and saves rendertimes by getting the frame where you want it at wide angle views. The PS work was just a afterthought really, For all images (5 in total) less than an hour. We are usually making these images in the designproces and so we are not all that good at the photowork with green and people. But I see some here spending proper time and talents to really work up a rendered image up to photorealism. I might get into that a little more when I have the time.

very beautiful style..

Thanks, did some experiments and indeed it works as you explain. Francois

Francois, Nice to see You back and thanks for sharing these remarkable images.

pretty new to these forums, but have been using sketchup pretty regularly for the last few years. I am in the videogame/film/tv industry and have found sketchup to be heavily used in the design process. It's a similar industry to architecture, considering the needs for conceptual, photoreal designs. I have been waiting for sketchup to take the next step in terms of modelling and am hopeful that 7 will address some of the issues. I hope Google understands the widespread use of Sketchup in diverse industries. If in the next update there is little to address the need for better modelling, and maybe even more extensive lighting options (like the light up plugin) i think i'll have to bite the bullet and learn modo...ouch. I hope not because i love sketchup and am heavily invested in it. just my two cents. i love this board by the way, have learned an amazing amount and am constantly inpressed with the quality of the work displayed!