Maybe Zermatt?
http://www.zermatt.se/

or Quest3d? (high price!)
http://quest3d.com/

maybe some higher anti-aliasing settings could solve the problem
Choose user settings in the render-presets.

I like it a lot. It's a great concept for a kid's bedroom. Lot's of exploring to do.
Why don't you add a few windows to the cells.
It's also flexible, the sleeping place could also be on top of the cell, and the computer/play/game space inside the cube.
You can also make the wall of the cell more flexible (curtain maybe) to create even more different space configurations.

Lot's of possiblities.
great work.

ps.
I picture this sleeping cell in the Ikea catalog of 2015!

Looks like you used the standard lighting model. Try using the radiosity setting for a more convincing lighting of the interior.
Drawback is that the render time will increase dramatically

Did this concept design for fun a while back. It's a boat house. In the round center to the right entrance/kitchen/bedrooms. The long part on the left the living room.
Render in Vue5 infinite.
Inspired by the great master (see avatar)

Looking good Mike.
You can find lot's of good objects that you can insert in Artlantis at http://www.archiradar.it/
The site is Italian but the download section is easy to find.
Try using the fresnel glazing material for your glass, you'll be amazed.

I really love Artlantis for it's straightforward material assignment and incredible speed of rendering.

Great photo inserts. I really like the one of the pool.
In the first one maybe the wall could use some more texturing, but other than that great images!

Maybe not directly topic related, but are there people here who have experience with the Intellicad family?
Always good to look for cheaper alternatives for Autocad.

Model from sketchup, about 1 hour, with 3/4 of the time spent on reference searching for the aliens! Got sidetracked a lot because you come across all types of old school gaming things, brought back alot of good memories
Imported in Vue as separate objects and created 4 layers of eco-systems with aliens. Most of the time spent on trying out different camera angles and lighting.
Final render took a few hours (Vue is a bit slooooow)
After that the framing and title (font was 'Friday the 13th' I think, found somewhere on the web)

I could post the separate aliens in the component section if someone wants to use them?

Render in Vue infinite

Thanks all for the kind words.
I agree about the cars, they didn't quite came out as they should have.
I'm also distracted by the right car with no license plate :ewink:
I'm really pleased how the glass turned out. Some objects and curtains inside the building do the trick.

Recently finished this project. Render in Artlantis, people and some vegetation from Piranesi.
Brick textures from the excellent program 'masonry designer'
Birds are from this forum, credits to Mateo!

I did live in Germany a little while, age 4-7. Maybe that's why my spelling is still a bit strange at times . (Learned to read and write in German.)
Now living in the Netherlands for over 35 years

Back on topic.
Best bet would be to invest in a new graphics card, hoping that it will solve the problem.
Should it be a 512mb card or is 256mb enough for the resolution 1680x1050

I've upgraded my monitor to a LG L226w (very nice btw ). Since then Sketchup6 is
reacting strange. It looks like the graphical part of the screen
(workspace) cannot overlay any menu screens and Sketchup freezes.
Sometimes after switching to the taskmanager the menu window appears.
My graphic card is a nvidia fx5700LE, it used to work fine on the
previous monitor at 1152x864 with vga connection.
Now it's running at 1680x1050 on a dvi connection.
I've allready upgraded the drivers, no luck

Question is, is the resolution of 1680x1050 too much for the fx5700LE.
Second question, will an upgrade to, for example, a 7600gs solve the
problem

edit: my god... got to learn to look out for spell errors (topic titel) 8O

UPDATE Sept 07, 2007
Problem is solved! Got a new asus 7600gs. I guess the old 5700LE couldn't handle the higher resolution in the openGL display

I export my models sometimes to Vue6.
What I do is:
-export in obj-format (with options units in meters)
-import object in Vue with 'manual resizing' of 10
I have my units in Vue setup in meters

If you're working with inches I guess a similar approach will work.

How I figured it out was just setting up a cube in Vue 6m6m6m(default) and then trial and error import.

Good luck.