@unknownuser said:

:thumb: And those trees are indeed nice [especially knowing they come from warehouse ]

Its not My project. This is a screnshot from the trees in 3D warehouse as I mentioned
above.
So please read first and then give Your opinion.

I stumbled upon some really nice trees in 3D warehouse so I thought I share it with You:
Here is the screenshot:

and a link:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b39c21c07e8ccb012a7dbb39776cdf0c&ct=mdsa&prevstart=0

Looking at that one i saw this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmA0tABTdVY&NR=1

Thanks to both.

Cool!!!

rcossoli,
Great work .
Although I have a suggestion.

@unknownuser said:

Although I'm not personally a huge fan of these entourage people you've added, it's definitely a GREAT work, rcossoli..!!

I agree with this, I also use these entourage people in my Photoreal images and in any case they work much better than 3D people that look totally unreal. What I learned from my experience is that it is better adding them later on in photoshop in a different layer so that one can adjust the colour,
Hue,saturation, fill,opacity…etc.. to more perfectly fit the scene. In that way they will look more
as they are a part of the scene than that they were just pasted in. If a renderer of choice has an option to retain the shadows but hide the entourage then the better.

Igor,
Welcome to the forum.

@unknownuser said:

and type in 12 feet

Why do You want to type in feet? Do You use feet in Ukraine?

Amazing work Fletch.

Karlfucious,
Nice models, thanks for sharing and welcome to the forums.

Great idea Mike.
Another idea would be to offer some kind of on line education , seminars to children from some parts of the world that are not fortunate to regulary go to school.

@unknownuser said:

to what I presume is your own head

I used Pinacle studio 9 for a while. That was a couple of Years back. I had no problem with
avi files but You are right it was a frustrating unstable program as You said lots of freezes, crashes and so on. Since then I used Pro show producer and recently Camtasia Studio.
I am happy with Camtasia for now but thanks for the tip anyway.

Thanks for the information. I will look into it.

Global economic crisis, people in debt , scared for their jobs , existence on the brink of losing their accustomed way of life (consumerism). Before democracy and market economy came to my country we as individuals didn’t have much, There was no consumerism , there was virtually no advertising, You couldn’t get a loan to even buy a car. We had pleasure in small things , There was great deal of friendship between people. People would, meet, discuss, help each other in every possible way.
There was no rush in making money to buy this or that or to cover this or that loan.
We looked at Western capitalist countries and saw their standard of life and we hoped one day we will live in similar way. And then overnight it all begun, all the doors opened , everything became possible, everybody offering everything , TV commercials, The worst TV garbage- (you name it we got it), Shopping centers , banks came in they offered loans for everything
and everybody . This is what we waited all our life, this is it, life is great.
So before we had that one problem . Now we have many more. And apart from all that people have somehow become different , the relationship between people has never been this bad , people in majority have never been more unhappy than they are now .
So I was thinking the other day maybe were not prepared for this or maybe people (masses) if placed in a position of choice they don’t have the knowledge to make the proper decisions.
A friend of mine always said that the worst thing is to give the masses the vote. He says that they are not competent to decide anything. I always argued with him saying : what is the alternative?
So in the end I am thinking that he is probably right , we need something in between , not really sure what but market economy as it is today is definitely out reminds me of that: You want the truth? You cant handle the truth .

@unknownuser said:

Seems there is yet a big thread about this

You are right, missed that one.

Here is a new software apparently some kind of sketch Up for engineers: http://www2.spaceclaim.com/

A friend of mine is an economist whose main work is Economic Analysis . A while back he developed a software actually a kind of a table that works in Microsoft Excel application environment . He sells this
application together with a user guide, to other companies that are in the same line of work. Since we are a small country and this is a really specialized area he sells this application more in hundreds than in thousands. Now he is upgrading this application updating it to new laws and regulations and soon the new version will be out to market.
He wants to create an installation procedure in which he can protect his software to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution. What he wants to know is what are the possibilities and what does it cost to do this.
He talked to a couple of local companies but he left with a feeling that they either don’t know their work or that they are blackmailing him into much more unnecessary work. Since he hasn’t got so much knowledge on the topic I said I will ask around .

Any suggestions? Anyone in this line of work?

Thank You.

Thanks, and great images.

Earthmover, Thanks for sharing, great textures.