'Sharpness': Is that an alternative way of saying 'glossiness'?
Sometimes I wish all render apps would use the same render lingo 
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Looks interesting Al.
I am curious what degree of photorealism can be reached.
Any examples of real looking stuff?
Cheers,
Biebel
Thanks solo for those tips on Poser imports in SU.
Is it true that Poser 5 is a better match for Sketchup as Poser 6 because the polycount of the models is lower?
Thanks,
Kwistenbiebel
Nice collection Solo,
You are quite a productive and creative personality.
You also seem to be able to give your images that 'something more'.
Very refreshing and always interesting.
Solo, could you describe in a few words the best method to get a poser model in Sketchup?
(export and import methods to keep uv-mapping in place)
Cheers and thanks for sharing,
Kwistenbiebel
Hi Solo,
Not only on the Podium forum but also here: you always impress us with wonderful imagery.
It's just amazing how exquisite your SU modeling skills are.
Also your character building is awesome.
I would love to see you in action while you are modeling these kind of things...seeing is learning.
Thanks for sharing Hippie!
Ouch....this is waaaay to awesome
Very sexy.
You make me jealous, you hippie
By the way, is this official 1.4.1 Podium or internal beta ('carotene')?
( Doesn't that floor bump map need to be inverted?)
That's amazing and very expressive.
I still need to learn Poser for better character making.
Great work.
That latest bathroom image is richer in terms of color (flatness on ceiling is gone).
Great work and really nice texturing !!
I would die to own a VW van like that. They're very expensive here in Belgium.
The strange thing is that you actually need to be quite a kapitalist to own such hippie wheels.
Nice one Solo,
The thing I like especially is that you 'hard modeled' some tile bump here and there. In combo with a bump map on the tile texture, this becomes very realistic.
One little crit maybe: there isn't a lot of colour bouncing around on walls and ceiling (kind of flat gray). Did you consider using somewhat 'off' whites?
Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel
Looking good Pete!
Is the noise caused by the noisy settings or by the bump map used?
Alan,
Nice initiative...
But just to be clear about it...:
The uploaded models still remain property of the modeler, right?
At the bottom of every Formfonts web page is stated:
Form Fonts
2007. All artwork and content is property of Form Fonts and is subject to all copyright laws.
I would still like to be able to put my own models on 3D warehouse as well, or do whatever I want with them ...
It would be strange to upload my model to FF and later on not being able to post it elsewhere because it became property of FF....
Could you fill us in on this Alan?
Thanks.
I love the way you modeled the roof tiles.
Texturing in general is great as well.
Just a little finetuning in some aspects and you'll have a super shot.
BTW: what's going on over at Asgvis forum? It seems the Vray forum is getting slow without the input of dev. team...
The mannequin really looks pro modelled.
Is there some tutorial on organic modeling in SU somewhere?
To be honest I would love to be able to model like that, but I don't really understand the use of Bezier, splines, soap skin and bubble, and advanced use of sandbox.
I would love to see some tutorial about that, covering all elements of organic SU modeling.
Apparantly, SU DOES have organic potential but the "how to's" are so tedious.
Also, could a Sketchucation member put a list of all the useful 'organic modeling' rubys together?
To be honest, I am in the blue on which rubies to use (and how )
I saw on PPB someone doing a very convincing car design (He entered a car design competition with it, go reckon).
So if anyone would be so kind 'tutting' organic modeling, I would be very very grateful.
And Frv,
I kind of second the things you say about the 'stand still' in development of Sketchup by Google.
Also I think Sketchup really has the potential to be a top modeler if development would start again.
My gratitude goes to the Ruby programmers that code some really usefull tools. However it would also be great if the Sketchup 'core' would be dealt with.
If only the 'memory leak' thing in Sketchup would be solved it would truely be a major improvement to start with.
Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel
Thank you sir,
Really nice contribution.
These birds sure can make a scene more 'lively'.
Much appreciated. 
Regards,
Kwistenbiebel
Hi Cheffey,
Great renderings man !
Are you planning to model more of these nice products?
The modeling is really good, clean and pragmatical.
I wish I had the same skills as you have.
(Maybe a little hint on the chrome using Podium: I found out that metals render better if you assign a very dark grey to the chrome objects and add refelection 100% to them.)
Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel
I uploaded the trees on the 3d warehouse:
here are the links:
Thanks Guys
Actually I have made some more......
You can download them from the thread I made on the Podium render forum....
Some are kind of High on poly count but with good layer management it should work.
Maybe I will make some 'cleaner' and thus lower file sized species.
Click here:
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/supodiumforum/vpost?id=2046893&trail=#12
In that thread I also Re-posted the 'tree factory' SU file and the tutorial on how to use it.
I hope some people would like to help to create some more trees this way?...
Here an example of a Willow tree I made:
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Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel
Here is the first tree I made using the good old 'Tree Factory'.
It's not really a 'defined species'.
BROADLEAF TREE (.SKP attached)
Download Model
Thank you guys.
Your appreciation is inspiring. I am thinking of assembling an additional TREE collection of good 'renderable' realistic trees. 3D warehouse doesn't seem the best resource for that unfortunately so maybe I will need to convert trees from other free ressource sites (.3ds/.obj).
Thanks again for the kind remarks,
Kwistenbiebel
Thank you James 
You can see more rendered images following this link to the thread on the PODIUM RENDER forum:
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/supodiumforum/vpost?id=2046921
Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel