we did a job for a car reseller some time ago and the boss bought a couple of car from humster. at first try, the "low poly 3ds" versions of them crashed sketchup instantly.. i had to send a mail to them and they were very polite and sent me back a custom skp-low poly version.. still pretty hi poly, but at least sketchup manged them (after a furter cleanup of the geometry, in particular some utra hy-poly details, such as headlights). now with beta vray maybe you can use proxy, as far as i know also maxwell can mange proxyes, so maybe it's a bit easier..

There is a plugin named "polyreduce", and Artisan has this feature as well..

I use SketchUp on both platforms but much prefer it on the PC because the toolbars dock to the edges. Of course my Mac is a 15" MBP. When I connect it to a larger monitor it isn't so bad.

@carlosarchicon said: Help!!! I totally need help with rendering with maxwell in sketchup ,and see how helpful these forums can be, but I can't even find where can I start my own post, to ask a question . go to the relevant subforum and click the button that says Post a new Topic [image: 5tTN_Newthread.JPG]