I think it was modellig by cam/cae applications and rendered in BS Hypershot(shadows and studio env-t)?!...
interesting model
ffd as other said, and i think beziespline to project lines for some boolean operations...
Or use Pilou's favorite nurbs tool - MoI3d or my Rhino 
Nice!
But will this bot drive(wheels in down) or scrab(wheels tranform-telescope into "legs")?
Have you rigged by Mocca or CD-tools this?
i used c4d for most of work too...
But i use now cinema4d with meshsmooth and cloth-nurbs additions...
awesome work!
1st pic 
I know who makes magic circles now....
Chris, one question...have you try to add SSS-feature for leaves(in front of view, elight some dark sites) or postwork made grafik.editor?
i know it's slow...but...
no way 
...
i trick us, it's foto!
Ono and Whaat make new camera driver 
Hi Didier!
Look at 688 string(latest modification of script), between description of phong-mat and default-mat
if mat.display_name[0,5] == "sfpho"
@stream.print "shader {",
"\n\tname \"#{name}\"",
"\n\ttype phong",
"\n\tdiff { \"sRGB nonlinear\" ", mat.color.to_a[0..2].collect{ |x| "%.3f" % (x.to_f/255) }.join( " " ), " }",
"\n\tspec { \"sRGB nonlinear\" ", mat.color.to_a[0..2].collect{ |x| "%.3f" % (x.to_f/255) }.join( " " ), " } 150 ",
"\n\tsamples 8",
"\n}\n\n"
return name
# AMB added
elsif mat.texture
# check which extension it is
filepath = File.dirname(mat.texture.filename) + "/"
filename = File.basename(mat.texture.filename)
filename = filename.split(".")[0] if filename.split(".").length > 1
[".jpg",".png",".tif",".bmp",".gif",".tga"].each do |ext|
testfile = filepath + filename + ext
unless File.exists?(testfile)
tw = Sketchup.create_texture_writer
tw.load(entity, true)
tw.write(entity, true, testfile)
end
@stream.print "shader {",
"\n\tname \"#{name}\"",
"\n\ttype diffuse",
"\n\ttexture \"#{testfile}\"",
"\n}\n\n"
return name
end
######
else
@stream.print "shader {",
"\n\tname \"#{name}\"",
"\n\ttype diffuse",
"\n\tdiff ", mat.color.to_a[0..2].collect{ |x| "%.3f" % (x.to_f/255) }.join( " " ),
"\n}\n\n"
return name
end
end
end
end
# Materialcode
def export_default_material
return if @exported_names.include? DEFAULT_MATERIAL
reserve_name( DEFAULT_MATERIAL )
@stream.print "shader {",
"\n\tname \"", DEFAULT_MATERIAL, '"',
"\n\ttype diffuse",
"\n\tdiff 0.8 0.8 0.8",
"\n}\n\n"
end
sorry, i know thats not blender's forum but Andrey Izrantsev/bdancer/ create vray's exporter for blender - http://blender.lugr.ru/
but if you want thats works you need vray-standalone edition(in maya and xsi), so link with chaosgroup support team....
i remember that you wrote about Renderman...have you or anybody look at Rubyman(sourceforge)?
biebel, great pic!
dark-green autumn(close) world
don't forget D.Bur's Component Spray Tool!
@unknownuser said:
Nowadays I have the same feeling with Sketchup I had in the nineties with the Commodore Amiga.
The Amiga was wonderful hardware back then (definitely compared to the PC's )...but that wasn't enough to keep development going.
I would hate seeing Sketchup die a slow death like that.
why revit and AD commonly(they like MS - only make the money...)?
look at some revi-forums/i saw some artistic death.../
but i think that no reason to pannic/AD will not buy SU from Google ////
For me, outdoor scenes - only unbiased renders(indigo and maxwell, i try fry-r but don't like it) and i take more time(for drafting, modelling and rendering) from client...indoor only by biased - vray, some render-setting in kerky(also in cinema4d, same- vray for static, final-render - interior animation)
Solo it's nice!
Bu i want to ask what kind of beta do you use?
@unknownuser said:
...The first image is a standard Podium 1.5 b3 render..
I can see a notice about beta 2 of 1.5 ...
If you need to see - http://rapidshare.com/files/47561588/banka.zip
Hello Ross! Thank you for answer!
By the way, i wait from current Siggraph: some news about vray for cinema4d(1.5 years of development) and c4d r11(maybe). Also how chaosgroup connect vray to XSI(sketchup has xsi-format exporting)
Ilay