Posts made by Mike Amos

John, I doubt anyone thinks you are cheating, the raw output can sometimes give a little idea of where the render finishes and the magic starts. Understanding this process can help to improve our renders. I hope. You just happen to have the 'magic' touch.

"Mike, would you ask David Bailey that question "

Oh yeah, mind you I would be unlikely to be able to afford the answer.

Your photography is improving in leaps and bounds John, which f stop did you use?

Excellent, really nice renders and the views you use are very convincing. Basically I really like those there renders mate.

Nice one, I think the artifacts in the main blade you mention are just artifacts due to the sometimes skewed way sketchup handles geometry. I doubt your model is at fault in any way. The render comes out real nice too, Cheers mate.

Thanks for the tips, I know about the spere or even just a square/oblong face for 'painting' a background on it is difficult for distance/scale issues as I want some renders at different ranges. The watermark tip is something I did not have a clue about but it just does not get there having a strange appearance but then I could be in error with scaling during import. I will have to try some different models for comparison. Thanks for your suggestions, another day with new lessons.

Is it possible to add a custom background within sketchup? I know some render programs will have this but I would like to have the image in sketchup if possible.

The font is close enough the standard of modeling is exceptional and the detail level high. Thanks for showing this step by step, very inspirational and a fantastic production.

Brilliant John, just brilliant.

I think without registering the design or copyright, you will be on a sticky wicket and as has been suggested, they can afford more legal representation than I guess you can.

Sods law but the chances are you will not be able to prove conclusively that you came up with the design first and that there are enough similarities to make a case. Bottom line is the lawyers on both sides win as usual. Sorry mate.

@unknownuser said:

@mike amos said:

Sorry mate but Hood took between three and five shells depending on which report you take most relevence from, the germans think three shells the Royal navy think five. The shot that killed Hood just happened to benefit from the lack of depth to the armoured deck and exploded inside the aft 15" magazine which rather bent the ship out of shape. There is a similarity to the loss of the USS Arizona where what was considered to be one explosion in the aft magazine was in fact a number of conflagrations involving the stern AND the bow magazines, some say due to improper safety installations.

I stand corrected. Thank you.

No worries mate, fair exchange is no robbery and thanks for your help with rendering, much easier when someone like yourself does the hard work first.

Sorry mate but Hood took between three and five shells depending on which report you take most relevence from, the germans think three shells the Royal navy think five. The shot that killed Hood just happened to benefit from the lack of depth to the armoured deck and exploded inside the aft 15" magazine which rather bent the ship out of shape. There is a similarity to the loss of the USS Arizona where what was considered to be one explosion in the aft magazine was in fact a number of conflagrations involving the stern AND the bow magazines, some say due to improper safety installations.

Fantastic stuff John, as ever. Have you noticed the similarity to the tribal class destroyers of the same timeframe? The superstructure, especially at the rear, is uncannily close perhaps the work of the same designers. You do have Hood riding very high in the water, these vessels shipped huge amounts of water in heavy swells due to the low freeboard.

Sorry Rich, missed this, yes latest release of 2013. Now I have the toolbar found I am basically OK, just got to fit the extra mats into kerkythea and I shall take it for a strole around the block.

Never mind, I found the toolbar hiding behind another toolbar, something I hadd looked into but missed earlier. It would be nice not to have toolbar conflicts like this but nothing is perfect.

plugins are fine, permissions are ok and sorted. Just not seeing su2kt.

I have gone through the usual procedure of copy/paste into the plugin folder for sketchup 2013 make. I cannot (windows, preferences, install extension) see the exporter files anywhere. I also looked into the sketchucation plugin store to see if there is a mthod there but there appears to be nothing.

Am I missing something?

As in the name of the tv show, abfab. Brrrrrriliant.

I think the only problem Tom Cruise has is he is too recognisable, like John Wayne. Like the renders and the model, very cool.

Thanks Tig, it was as you say, selected. I usually work to 1/4" for architectural but 1/64" when the model is a plane or car. I still find at times that the line would be somewhat different from my input length so it is still not right by any means but I understand nothing is perfect under any sun.