Another competition - that I'm sure a few people from here might have entered.
Who's Next - about 98% of the images were done with SketchUp in that competition.
SketchUp, Twilight and PhotoShop. (have you started to understand why I don't spend a lot of time on SketchUcation 
too busy taking on these damn competitions)
I did a competition for Rockwall's Memorial - since I had an idea while designing the building, figured it was worth the time to enter the competition myself.
Sketchup, Twilight and Photoshop...
And here are some of the final images of the interior done with Thea - imported from Twilight and just rendered, haven't gotten into tweaking anything in Thea yet.
The rest were all modeled in SketchUp (with some Revit core parts) and rendered with Twilight.
Thanks Pete!
Here we enter into the final design that we tweaked and tweaked until it became what is under construction.
Sketchup/Kerkythea/Twilight
I am posting these chronological order...so are you ready for a roller coaster ride?! We weren't!
There was even a tower version that just didn't make the cut.
This is where the plan landed (was extremely revised)
Rockwall County Court House - Currently under construction...
This one tested our design patience. Started design in early 2009 (March 2009) Over the course of this project in Schematics we probably went through 25-50 design iterations, some were really completely different from other.
We fought the Modern vs. Classical battle on this one and lost to Traditional...but detailed it in a modern way.
The following is a taste of the designs/models we produced for this project.
Bryan~Texas, if you were in Bryan, Texas...hope you never have to visit our Project there...Bryan Justice Center
I started working right when they were finished designing the exterior so I did some work on visualizing the interior...but that was pre-SketchUp (3dViz).
Thanks Eric.
I know that is not my best SketchUp renderings, was my learning stepping stone to Kerkythea. Hopefully I can redeem myself with the Court House I will be posting next...just on a deadline and couldn't touch it at lunch. 
This is the Summit - which is an Adult Activity Center...over 50 Recreation Facility...
Again with SketchUp and Kerkythea
And built image.
The first group of images are of a complex for Grand Praire, Texas - their new Public Safety Building and Senior Recreation Facility. We specialize in both of these building types. They are both situated on 5 man made lakes sitting on 1 square mile site.
Public Safety building:
Used SketchUp and Kerkythea.
And finished building images.
It dawned on me the other day when Pete was asking about my modeling that I hadn't posted anything in the Gallery yet.
So, I'll try to post some stuff up at lunch over the next week or so to catch up my sketchup usage.
I'm a Design Architect. We (my firm) primarily use SketchUp for design work during Schematics as a fast tool to make frequent changes. Along the way Visualization has become important as well. Using Kerkythea, then Twilight and now Thea I am working on my photo realistic skills to convey the space to the client. Over the years clients have become more used to seeing photo realistic models and are now expecting that as part of the process...so we are working that into a typical design package. After the construction documents are finished we have been going back and using the drawings, Revit models to test the finishes and create final photo real images of their buildings and sometimes we hire out a 3d firm to compile a walk through to help promote the building if the client wants to pay for that service.
Bueler?
Am I the only one with these issues?
Has anyone reported or know of a fix for this?
On any project I have worked on - if I go to Window and Scenes to open the Scenes window it crashes instantly.
Also, the pallet windows won't stay put...thought someone mentioned this, don't know if there is a solution for that or not either. But, MAN is that annoying! 
Running Pro 8.0.3117
Thanks
I found this out Friday as well. Had brought in two or three instances of the map/terrain and started to freak out, until I right clicked and saw "unlock" - D'oH! LOL
Hey guys - great hanging with you Thursday night and the demo was amazing.
If I wasn't swamped with deadlines, I'd load up the demo disk and start checking it out. Look forward to your tutorials - they will help out tremendously in getting us up and running to test out the software.
BTW - to the New Beetle owner in the family...www.newbeetle.org - I think you said it was a 2000...we're here if you need some help keeping that baby alive! 
Thanks - it really helps to see someone moving around the interface to understand where all the controls and boxes are!
They kept generalizing the 64 bit conversation the entire event - evident by the "Keep making SketchUp Faster", instead of simply putting down - move SU to 64 bit.
I got to say that I was looking forward to their demo, but it left me not wanting to spend the time to download and try it out.
When the answer to all the audiences questions (the typical ones that SU users would ask of any render program) the typical answer was, "Don't worry about it, it will work" instead of explaining why they understood the question and that it would be an issue they were working on...or if they didn't have the information that they would check into it.
They stated that there wasn't a problem with 32 bit because it somehow ran on the Artlantis engine outside of SketchUp at 64 bit, I'm not sure how that works, but that was their explanation to the question of the limits of 32 bit.
The clouds and change in day was about the only thing I noted as "Cool" in my notes.
Seemed like it had lots of limits to texture manipulation when compared to Twilight.
I was definitely under-impressed. The "real time" render was interesting, but I had just seen that feature in the Thea demo - so I am hoping that the real time render is a trend and products like Twilight might be featuring this in the future.