hi guys! here some progress, view from the street...
added a bit of fog to capture more depth on the background using sketchup's built in fog, as well as a background image to add clouds...
I'm not happy at all with the hedges in foreground (I will change them), need some variation on the grass as well as the asphalt texture is not complete...
hi renderiza, thanks a lot for your comments... I like to create my scenes with my own background trees to have more control over the hole scene...
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V
Allanx, the lord of the NPR , this one is great. Congrats
thanks Stefan, I appreciate a lot your comments...
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V
gracias Ecuadorian,
yes there is DOF in maxwell and it is controled as in real life with f-stop, I used an f37 to avoid DOF in order to reduce rendering time...
I´ve been trying to create a Z-depth image using the sketchup´s built-in fog to be used with the lens blur filter in photoshop, with no decent results...
saludos
V
another fantastic job!!! all your vegetation looks great, wich software do you use??? or is it include in THEA???
congrats...
update, the image rendered at 20 SL...
Some small details to improve especially on the interior.
I dont like the hard shadow of a wall projected on the grass, soft shadows from vegetation would be better.
beginner,
thanks so much for your comments... yes, you are guessing right on first floor there is the master bedroom with a study/living and bathroom, first I was proposing a bigger terrace but the client and my boss preferred it as it looks on the image, which should be presented to the client one of this days... I would prefer to eliminate the balustrading just for the image 
Bryan,
you are very welcome...
Thanks Bryan!! I dont mind sharing my fur settings...
I used 6 different presets (fig 1), applied the first 5 to a 1x1 meter square (fig 2) and then mixed all together, the 1 square meter was used to cover all the ground and then used the preset #6 applied to 1.5 m circle and scattered along the ground (fig 3) using the crowd option of the same plugin...
probably you have to play with the density parameters... for the materials used simple solid color with slight variations of greens for each kind of blades...
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V
wow! this is a very interesting method Roger...
a little update
one step ahead: planted trees...
two steps back: my laptop at work could not handle 3D trees and vegetation + maxwell grass, it kept crashing so I had to use 3D grass generated with fur for sketchup plugin
testing some possible views and planting some vegetation...
Hi forum!
this is my second post in this forum, it is a 2 story house in Helsingborg Sweden that we are designing at the office I work [reform] arkitekter...
as well as my previous post, this one is done using free software: Sketchup 8 + Maxwell render standalone plugin, trees and bushes generated using Arbaro...
your c&c are very welcome
and after some small changes by the client:
my very first try with maxwell grass feature...
wow! your work is just fantastic... could you talk a little bit about rendering times???
amazing work allanx, as usual!!! I like more the second image...
congrats chedda! I saw that you are between the 20 finalist... well done
Carloh and Peter, thanks a lot for your comments...
here comes attached a screen capture with my camera settings...
the output resolution is set to 800 x 800, for the right half of the image the lens X shift value is set to 50, then for the left portion is set to -50, the Y shift value must be the same for both images
(note in this case my Y shift value was set to -19 because of the image composition)
best
V
and here comes the night time version, lighting is image based using an HDRI from http://www.openfootage.net/, I tried to keep postwork as minimal as possible: slight color correction, sharpening and lens flare...
some small white spots appeared on the glass area, Jason Maranto suggested that it is possible that the complexity of the lighting (multiple light-sources) is causing the error due to late appearance of some of the lighting information, since I am using the free version of the plugin...
