Hi, i just have a question about texture baking, is it an easy way too do it, i really want to learn how. When i make ships models for game is the shadows unrealistic and i see other user making texture baking in 3Dmax and the model are much more realistic with baking. I hope someone know about a plug-in or something? I can use blender or something but i would be nice with a tutorial! 
Thx!
J3nsen
Ohh my good! I relay want your water to my models! The texture and.... everything looks realistic! Just got problems to make water like that, so it end with flat bad textured water...
Great work with the ship! Its not many users out in the world who models ships.
@daniel said:
Beautiful landscapes, Bjorn. I think I know the answer, but what program did you use?
Carrara Pro 7.0 
One of my projects, I started this with a few days ago and have actually come pretty far. I make my boats to a game called Virtual Sailor, but the past, I am still sticking with some files to get the ship realistic size. But that do I find out later. This is the first Render images. Post more later when I have been longer. Now at the past I'm trying to create textures in photoshop so that it will be mind-realistic appearance. I've used Maxwell for renders.
Hmmm, im not good in textures, but its not soo bad!
This is a old Steam ship i made for fun, on this one i have used Sketchup 7 & Kenkythea Render...
Bigger picture
http://i41.tinypic.com/2ur02s8.jpg
Hope you like it 
@chango70 said:
I believe that now the i7 Cores are released there is no reason other than cost to go AMD anymore. The benchmarks are amazing! The slowest i7 Core 920 is faster than the fastest last generation Quad (the QX9775)which is incredable! Plus they apparent can overclock relatively easily according to Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/). It was worth the wait. Now I am going to specify a system with the following hardware:
Intel Core i7-920 2.66Ghz
6Gb DDR3 Ram
WD velociRaptor 10000Rpm HD
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint 7200rpm HD
Asus P6T Desluxe Intel X58 Motherboard
Quadro FX 1700 Graphics CardThat should do the trick
Any improvement welcome.
WOAOW!!! 
I also got some crash problems with SU 7.... I have Vista and Nivida grafic...
Hey, my real name is Michael Jensen, 18yr old. Live in norway, 1km from sweden. Now i have worked with sketchup since ver. 5... 5 and 6 was free... then i buyed 7pro now and really happy with that. Testing out some renders and mixing up Textures in Photoshop. I making ship models for the game Virtual Sailor.
Hope I get more info and help from here when I get stuck!
Some photos from my latest projects.
Workstation:
42" Plasma Hitachi
17" Fujitsu Siemens
Logitech MX Laser mouse
Acer Keyboard
Sketchup Pro 7.0
Photoshop CS4
Kerkythea 2008
Maxwell Render
V-ray for sketchup
Deep Exploration 5.5
Work PC
Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 2,40Ghz
HD audio 7.1 -> Logitech Z-2300
4GB Ram
2X NVIDIA GF 9800GT SLI 512mb
Blue-ray
Laptop
Amd Mobile Semprom 1,60Ghz
Realtek soundcard
2GB Ram
ATI x1200 126mb
