Posts made by liam887

yeah, unfortunately my images are to big to post here I have to scale them down and you cant see the detail as for the lighter background, in future ill bear that in mind.

Another larger image of the pelican from a previous post.

wow thats nice, are those textures applied in sketchup? have you touched the render up afterwards? Can you post some more details please?

Yeah looks amazing. Some of those plugins look very good especially the bezier edge thingy lol! That will save hours! Have you got any new models in the pipeline? I remember that site from years ago we where on, 'sands of Mars' or something lol, you where making some pretty cool trains! still doing them?

I didint know about most of them, i only have soap skin bubble and skin lol. Wow this is going to save me loads of time thanks man. Lol good job i migrated here form scifi meshes or i would never have found these things out!

Yeah same to you, although i could have sworn i saw one of your models on concept ships .org? Yeah anyay thought id join this site as there arnt' many sketchup users knocking about on SFM anymore. Ive got a few ships in the works is there anywhere on this site I can post a few WIP's? then I can show you?
Also only 9 of these ships are form the games the rest came from my own expanded universe, or brain lol. I did have help with some models taking descriptions form the novels, but still put my own spin on them especially the stations, the largest of which was over 100MB sketchup file!

I would ive been trying all morning however when I try and post images the loading bar just stays in limbo for 20mins+ and doesnt post. Ill give an image hosting site a try fingers crossed! The internet in work is going a bit slow maybe its something to do with that?

Well as you can see I used pic tiger, but this site is still going slow on my computer?

Not only to yo get transform options but also, global lighting, texture manipulation. You can also change the model to wireframe, bounding box, monochrome etc etc. If you have the extended edition of CS3 or CS4 you should check it out, when you come to layout your model for presentation needs this is a good way to do it. Here is an example when I was playing around with it in Uni a while back. These models where made in sketchup and posed and textures in CS3EX. Im pretty sure anybody running CS4 can do the same? The Audi isnt mine its form the warehouse so credits for whoever did that. It was the first model i edited in photoshop so its a bit rough with a bit of practice you can see my halo stuff is more up to scratch.
You can also download a plugin for photoshop to directly browse Google 3D warehouse form inside photoshop! and directly import models onto a 3D layer!

(At the moment its not letting me upload any pics ill try and edit them in shortly)

I dont know about after effects but here is it in photoshop, maybe its simlar?

This image is supposed to be 6000*px in width however due to upload constraints it is now 1700px, therefore the images loose a lot of their clarity and the text is no longer readable. The larger images can be seen over at my page on SFM if you wish to read the text. The link is in my user profile.

Practice makes perfect and im still far off that, thats why I joined this site to get some help with certain things and feedback. Here are some more pictures of things I have done with sketchup.

Nice, i knew it was sketchup when I saw it lol and being star-trek it could only be you ha. When I get back from work in a couple of hours ill be sure to post some of my things form my hard drive. Been playing around with lightwave aswell, working out its renderer so I can render my sketchup models in that should be awesome when that starts working lol.

yeah done it, still not working, think its something to do with my X11, ill try and fix it up when i finish work.

Ive downloaded the app just no idea how to install and run it? any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Yeah i installed X11 form my installation disks but still no joy an getting kerek installed, dont even know where to start. Downloaded a tutorial but no luck, might just wait till i upgrade to leopard.

You can cut many hours off your render time if you just do multiple passes instead of rendering everything in one go. For example just render the house, and the cars in different shots and the environment last. Then compile them together in a 2D program. Many people use this technique, over at SFMeshes some models are in the 'Gigabyte' regions so rendering is painfully slow for them. They can cut their render times in half however using this method?

I thought i would post some of my work from scifimeshes over here as its mostly done in sketchup. Here are a few of the models from my HALO thread, all the ships where built in sketchup and then painted in PSCS3 extended (due to its 3D layers feature). Some of the models are very detailed, number '9' for example was just under 90MB. You can see the models up close if you head over to scifi meshes.

Hi there just joined. Was wondering if anybody else has had difficulties installing Kerkythea on MAC OSX?