http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQd0ELH7SNI cool link for pumpkin

im using both vray and podium and i could agree with that coen.

yeah i agree that bumps will add more effect on the concrete. i will try that for the evening scene.

another podium output.

yeah the new podium beta capabilty has open for more creativity and experimentation. the set up is very easy. one of the easiest, few sliders to adjust but yet can produce many surprising and realistic images. im glad there was interview with TAVi, the man behind podium... so he is the guy behind the renderer's capability. thanks for appreciating the rendered image btw.

podium is really developing faster. i tested the beta and im surprised on its ability. the quality of this new engine is i think superb. some sample test image attached herewith.

what less than 5 minutes, that is quick.

thanks guys, these new xml presets are just awesome. i particularly like the noisy setting. the calculation is exact. there is really a big improvement from 1.4 to 1.5.

i did this using the shared xml i entitled sepo shared xml. now more light could penetrate inside the room using all these presets. podium is really coming on really fast. the rendered time is 17m and 16s using 100% quality and 100%jagginess 0full blast)size 600X800

on the first image i just used the default xml. but after reading more on those presets, i m just really surrise how much podium has openned itself for users to do so more tweakings. the latest beta is just awesome i think.

i think im not the right person here to compare atlantis with podium because i have not use atlantis.
again just sending both podium and vray render.
i choose not to have post process so as to to see the direct ourput from podium and vraysu.

this one is using the jsut release beta1.5B from podium. the rendering time is 1m 35s.

this one is rendered using podium1.4.1 lighted up with pure omni lights.

and this one is using vray su. the rendering time i think is really fast.

thanks tom for the compliment

to be honest, i havent tried atlantis. but i tried podium since its version 1. i could attest how much it improved and how much easy to set it up and its really joy to do quick thing and with quality images. if you are looking for a software that works hand in hand with SU, i think podium is.

ok here is another one. a night scene showing different light source.

@ Dylan.. its with photoshop. i think zem had a tutorial on how to combine render image and su render image. i just improvised his technique. anyway the main principle is to export an image using style and a render image. but the view should be the same. then put them on different layers in photoshop. make the opacity of the top level lesser, so that you can see the bottom level. once the top and bottom layer are alligned, you can make the opacity 100% and play with the top level. in my case i use soft eraser and erase the top level. once satisfied, thats it.
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here are some more renders

ok here is the image

thank you guys for all your comments and encouragement.

i tried to post the vray version but it seems the site can only handled maximum of 800pixel. so i need to resize it and use imageshack to host it.

the bloom... actually i use Post processing using photoshop, i use a slight diffuse glow filter. i found diffuse works better in diffusing the highlights only. if you are blurring the whole image then adjusting the opacity, most likely you will affect even the shadows and mid tones.

here is a link for my quick tutorial.
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/supodiumforum/vpost?id=1719221

now there are some hard areas you dont want to be affected by the filter, therefore you use soft eraser to show the underneath layer.

i will try to send some more images later using vray and podium.
even though they are different softwares, i like them both becuase they serve different things. i love podium because its very easy to use and to set up so the learning curve is really quick at the same time its the software im introducing to our school. it really works hand in hand with Su, with regarsds to efficiency and fundametal approach to 3d.

of course the more we mature, the more we long for realism and i think vray and maxwell has edge on this. but since i have experience with max and vray, i continue this when they released the vray sketchup. at the moment its kinda buggy (particularly in re-mapping).

the funny thing is why i say they are compatible, vray accept those, reflections assigned with poidum in SU and not only that even the bump map now in 1.5. unofrtunately clipmap works differently.

nece meeting you all guys here in this forum. ( hi biebel, solo and sepo)

@solo. it was rendered using the old version 1.41

i jsut want to share some of my vray and podium render using SU. This is my new place using podium render