The mouse is yesterdays technology. The graphics tablet is more modern. Who knows what tomorrow will bring in the wacky world of innovation.

P: akzidenz

Awesome work man! Makes me wanna sing how great thou art!

poster-Insipidus

Very nice! I'll try it out.

poster-mensa180

Thanx guys and paul you are just one big kid arn't u!

poster-tobeyo

I would just like to say to GFORCE (Who ever he is) that I have a huge lego set and have been building models with it since I was 4. I only had been using sketchup for about 3 months when i did the drawing! OK I may have known how to use a computer since i was 2 and all I could do was draw shapes but sketchup is an advanced program and takes lots of skill. I didn't use measurments and because of a version difference the roof is missing and the walls have gone funny! so give me break!

poster-tobeyo

I'm not very impressed. In sketchup everyting look's good very easy, and don't misunderstand that the current generation has grown up with computer's and now how to use these programm's very well.
This is what i think a 12 year old boy should be able to do with skecthup at that age.If you start at age 10 with skecthup and you know the basics, there is not much difference a boy of 12 can produce with sketchup and a man of 30 can produce with it. Especially if it is just drawn from a model.

It is just playing wiith blocks but then on the computer, when i was 7 i made these things with blocks or lego. Well he made this with his computer.
Nothing special. An by the way it is very messy, there is no real context.

Gforce

Yet again emasculated by a 12 year old , sigh.

Welcome to the forums though .

poster-Towner

Great model Eric! I would love to see this fully detail textured and lit. The painting on the ceiling reminds me of some of the rooms and hallways I saw at the Vatican. From the point of view of a humble artist, I must say this image really fascinates me, I mean the thought that this is an actual place in the real world, just makes me want to say woow! Awesome dude! :thup:

poster-stuckon3d

I once spent a while on the road as a musician. I had a chance to look at the drawings for a large church with a pit. There was a completly different set of drawings for the sound room or pit room (the whole room). The builder I met said it was like painting...every surface and every object had to be created with a sound surface or shape and there was quite a palette of designs available depending on the default sound they wished to create. After that there where a set of movable baffles and texture drapes that could be used to change the sound all of these themselves created to a sound recipe of some sort depending on what the client wanted to be able to achieve.

It struck me that his paint analogy was a great one. I know it was a very expensive proposition and this guy was a specialist at creating sound rooms as he called them.

P: Isaac

Fletch!!! You are the man!

Although I haven't attempted the hdr stuff yet, your suggestion in settings works great. And since I was reluctant to change the settings in there without knowing what they do, now I went and changed the photons and others, and sped up the time even faster.

can you see the difference in the two images here???

http://picasaweb.google.com/Cartographer.Tom/Test/photo#5112757379912754210
one took 4 minutes, and one took 11 minutes.
the settings are shown there too.
off line they are even bigger and I can only see a very faint difference.

[CartographerTom]

@alpro said:

This is a link for the material downloads in the Kerkythea Repository, if you read through the Kerky Forums there is also materials made by some of the users that are really good. http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=3

Mike

ditto.

there is one named "car paint" that is sweet!

[CartographerTom]

hey stuckon3d, geez I don't know exactly how long, but I'm thinking about an hour. I actually ate lunch and returned to see it at 90%. I will look around for "bounce" I haven't seen that acual word but the "glass" used has the following settings:

refraction: index of refraction, and dispersion

bevel mapping: smoothing angle

there are a few others that I pretty much know what they do, and some check boxes, but one of the 3 above might be Kerkythea's "bounce"?

I'll play around with em, see what works.

[CartographerTom]

Nice render, how long did it take?
As far as render times, I dont know about kerkythea but anytime you do refraction (which is the bending of light as it goes across an object, it will takes a long time to calculate. The bigger the object is in frame the more time it is going to consume. One thing you can do, and I dont know if Kerky lets you do this, is to control the amount of bounces the rays will take as it goes thru the glass. sometimes 5 or 6 bounces is enough. See if you can control the bounce, that will help you reduce rendering time.

[stuckon3d]

thanks you two, I am starting to get the hang of it. (lighting is my hardest part.)

AndGaieus, I had this posted in face book, maybe thats where you saw it.

Yes the glass effect is the coolest feature, but it takes sooooo long to render. I don't know if it's because it's "thick" (as opposed to a single plane/face)

anyone have any ideas on how to speed it up? I just loaded the glass library from Kerky site, but am reluctant to try anything too large.

[CartographerTom]

It was suggested from someone that I post my first sketchup-kerkythea image here.(first after a few dozen frustrating and failed tests, that is)

Anyway I'm not very savy at posting images in these places, and I don't want to crash the server so I hope this link will work.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Cartographer.Tom/3DSTUFF/photo#5109011325816850402

Thanks Tom.

ps. I've only had Sketchup for a few weeks and Kerky even less, looks like I should have come here earlier to learn.

[CartographerTom]

@unknownuser said:

Welcome stuckon3d!

So tell me, do they use SU at Dream... ehem... Catcher? Not for the the big stuff obviously, but sketch designs?

Hi Jackson,
and thanks for the welcome, to answer your question, no we dont, its all custom software, with some "maya" in there. I use SU at home for fun, like the "capri" project im working on now.

P: stuckon3d

howdy yall,
I work for PDI now is called Dream... Animation, shhhh . I'm not supposed to tell. We are located in redwood city. I've worked on several of their movies, and I must say, it has a fantastic working environment, full of very talented people that push you to become even better. I have worked on tv show and video games as well, but now im staying with films for a while.

P: stuckon3d

1st post here at the "new Corner bar I re-found you with the help from a friend. I live in laguna Beach ca. I build custom homes as a General Contractor. I strive for perfection in my craft and treat is as art. Look forward to speaking with you all soon
Post #1 done
Jimmy

P: J1mmy

he,he no....its not crocs thosere water lily

poster-jessalba

Hello,
its been a long time from my last visit here;)Im very pleased that my lates project about solar system started so interesting discussion;)Thanks you guys for all valuable advices!I want to present the ultimate version of this project (how about the right scale all planets -I put every detals about each planet on information table in corner of square).

and now that I tested more my SU skills;P I`v created another thing...all my sketches are last of all sciences at studies (Landscape Architecture).This one is a very lovely place situeted on artificial island in the same park.I hope you like it;)

poster-jessalba