And a couple old Kerkythea renderings (done some time back in May). They look a bit plasticky, as I had just started to get a hang of the program when I made these.

After browsing (with the occasional comment) here and the old SketchUp forums, I have decided it's about time to start uploading some of my work- the majority of which I modelled and (sometimes) rendered just for fun and experience. There will be a bit more to follow.

This is an old house being converted to 3 condos, with a big deck added to the side of the house.

@3lii said:

Nice pics
any tutorial for this style?

I cannot recall which name, but it's based on either a Grant or Marshall technique. It involves taking a simple white image from SketchUp and a colored in, material and shadows image. Take the two of them and put them in Photoshop on two different layers (with the white being on top). Erase a bit of the white and you get that blended look.

A monsterous house that I was asked to model at the old firm I used to work at (never really got finished).

And a house somewhere in North New Jersey.

A house on the beach in South Jersey.

Looks great! That's not version 1.5, is it?

Is that even available to evaluate yet?

@regis said:

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and i think it's a very good product for mac users.
Just need for help manual for KT 2008 ECHO perhaps

thanks Regis. I cannot wait to try this later- should be a step up from using my old Centrino laptop with 512 megs or ram to render.

Looks fantastic! You seriously have some tremendous skill.

@fletch said:

SU2KT already works on a Mac... it's just that KT did not.

I never knew that! I am going to have some serious fun when I get home from work tonight!!

What's the speed like on the mac? I'm rocking and rolling with a 24" iMac with 3 gigs of ram - is this speed anywhere like it would be if I was using windows? Does it support both cores? I downloaded it last night but haven't fooled around with it yet.

Amazing as always! I also have never scene any of your interiors- truely amazing work!

mac os x.

You just made my year.

Any word on a Mac version of the SU2KT exporter?

Great image- love the snow!

Awesome work as always, Tom. You really can't tell it was SkecthUpped by just glancing at the image.

@mike lucey said:

Thanks Jeff, I particulary like this one,
http://www.designorg.com/openWeb/kitchen.html

I'm expecting delivery of the training CDs
over the next few days so hopefully will be
jump in a get going.

Mike

Do you know which rendering program this was done in?

Looks like a good model. To be honest, though- that flag kind of steals my attention though- it's so straight! Do you have aflag model that is a bit wavy and more realistic?

Please post an image when it finishes rendering, I would love to see how it looks.

I downloaded Indigo last night and started giving it a try- and I am very impressed so far! Not a big fan of the amount of noise I tend to see, though- I let a test render run overnight and it still looked a bit noisy.

@sepo said:

Mac porting is on our to do list.When I can not say though

I'll take what I can get! Hope meter filled!

I long for the day when I can stop using bootcamp to render or I can stop using my old centrino pc laptop with a measily 512 megs of ram.

@ross macintosh said:

Hi kwick7 -- all registered users of Podium have access to the Beta. If your getting along fine with Kerkythea then you may never need Podium. If I'm not mistaken, Podium uses the Kerkythea rendering engine so it will never be any faster than it. What Podium does have going for it is the simplified user interface and the way it works inside SU as a plugin.

Thanks for the feedback Tina, Solo and nomeradona. The tips are appreciated too.

Regards, Ross

All registered users- as in those that have purchased Podium already?

It would be nice to not have to load up Kerkythea and just render away in SketchUp. I have gotten better with Podium over the past 2 days, though, and will continue tinkering with it. The trial just isn't doing anything for me - too many limits.

At the price, though, I may just buy Podium- then I can see what the deal is with 1.5.

Now.... if only someone would port either of them to the mac- then I would be really happy.