Hi everyone,

Had some free time today to play around, so I thought I could make some more renders, perhaps this time try some indoor rendering. It's supposed to be some underground parking, nothing fancy, just walls and columns.

So I think these renders look a bit better (or at least more realistic) than the old ones:

Sure man, here it is:

Love your work by the way! You've got amazing attention to detail!

Thanks!
it took me about 4 days total, each day for about 5-6 hours.

Yeah I know I didn't get it right, but I think it looks ok nonetheless .

Thanks guys...

Here's the back, in a different color this time:

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd try modeling a car. I always felt they were the hardest to do; they're not pure geometrical shapes as in architechture and at the same time not freeform organic shapes: they just lie in between, so you can't use the same techniques with them.

Anyway here's what came up with. It's modeled in sketchup and rendered in kerkythea. The background scene is from the warehouse, I didn't really have time to model a more realistic scene:

Another view with a different angle and without DOF:

It's supposed to be a Ferrari F430 spider, but I'm afraid I haven't done a great job as far as that goes .

There was a lot more detail which I wanted to add, such as the interior (which is currently only the seats and a steering wheel suspended in the air ) among other stuff, but I'm afraid I'm running low on free time these days .

Hope you like it!!

Amazing plugin, really!! You guys are taking sketchup to another level!!

I was just wondering, is there a tutorial of a help file maybe, because I'm not really sure what all the tools do or how exactly they work so... a help file would be really useful!!

Thanks and keep up the awesome work!!

Wow, thanks everyone!!

Uh, I used subdivide and smooth mostly, here's a picture of the original mesh (drawn by hand) before subdividing:

The whole mesh:

The face:

As for posing, it can be posed, whether by posing the mesh before subdivision, or using fredo6's fredoscale plugin (cool plugin by the way). Here's an example:

Thanks for the hairstyles solo, they're awesome! I want to know how you make them (if it's ok )? I'll try them on for a render and get back with my results!

I'll also check out the 'sculpt tools' plugin, I only found about it just now, thanks kwist!

Ooookay...

I know I'm not that good, but I was expecting at least a comment??

At least tell me how I can improve it or where I went wrong..

Thanks

Hey everyone,

I haven't been here in a loooong while. Actually, I haven't used sketchup at all in a long while. Well, I thought I'd make my comeback worth it, and decided to try modeling human figures.

I started out with the female figure because it's smoother and thus easier, and here's what I got:

It's modeled entirely in sketchup, and rendered in kerkythea. I know the render's not much, I'm an awful renderer.

The face gave me a really hard time, but I think I managed it. What I can't seem to get right is the hair. Anyone know a good tutorial for that?

Hmm. Oh well...

Thanks a lot for your help. I'm liking kerkythea more and more, it's so easy to use.

Not that I tried anything else , but I still like it .

Fixed it. I had spotted that option and guessed that it was the answer .

Still, why is this happening? Is the problem with the material library itself or with kerkythea or what?

Yeah! It looks much better now! I also scaled down the vase to help.

That's weird though... I thought that if it's like this by default then that's what it's supposed to look like. Is this due to some kind of miscalculation by the person who made the material or something?

Oh ok. I'll try that right now!

Thanks!

Thanks again for your really encouraging comments .

@frederik said:

depending on the material you've applied in SU and the scale of it

But I didn't have any material applied in sketchup. As a matter of fact I didn't even make that floor in sketchup!! It's a kerkythea infinite plane. But I'm sure the texture's meant to be that way. It looked like that even in the preview. It's one of the material libraries in the KT repository. It was called "floors". I think it was by Darren Sintra.

Yeah that's gotta be it .

Thanks guys, this is so encouraging .

I used kerkythea for texturing and rendering. The vase is actually 1.15 meters high (guess it's more of an urn then ). But I didn't modify the floor texture, it was a readymade one and I just applied it. I think that's how it was meant to be, cause when I previewed it in the kerkythea material editor, it was small on the preview model too.

Hey everyone,

This is a vase I made in sketchup, using the follow me tool and sketchyFFD, which is an awesome plugin by the way.

I was reluctant to post this at the beginning, seeing all the awesome stuff posted here, but then I thought I'd just post it anyway.

Hope anyone likes it

Wow!! Thanks Fredo!! It's like you read my mind!! I love your plugins man! Waiting for that one, cause the sketchup drape tool is just giving me a headache.

Gaieus, I understand what you mean, but what I want to drape is already line work, it's what I want to drape ontothat's not. I know I can use the drape tool, but that means I'll have to rotate the whole model to do it, and even still I don't know why that particular model keeps giving me a bug splat whenever I use the drape tool. And Didier's projection tools can only drape onto plane faces. So that left me with having to project then intersect, which is a long process and doesn't nearly give as good results as the drape tool.

Uh Didier, there's a little problem, it only works on a single face or plane, but I want to drape a circle on a mesh, consisting of many faces. To use the ordinary drape tool, I have to position the shape so that it's right under the lines I want to drape, and rotated accordingly. Even after doing all that anyway, the drape tool gives me the fastest bug splat I've ever seen. Sketchup just exits faster than if I hit "close", and doesn't even say that a bug splat has happened (this is just with the current file I'm working on, curiously). I had to do it with the push-pull and intersect way, but I thought that if a better drape tool was available, it would be a breeze.