hi guys!

Bryan thanks a lot man, you leave allways a positive

Pilou merci beaucoup, for leaving a comment!

Peter, I appreciate your comment, the ambient light is just done with maxwells physical sky, when the image is finished I will add a sky in post production

sh00ks thanks for commenting... it is amazing the results this plugin can give!
yes I understand what you mean and agree with you about the corners, but I dont know a way to fillet/chamfer them within sketchup (im not an expert with SU), I would appreciate a lot if you could show me how to do it in a quick and efficient way (any plugin or tutorial?)...

thanks again to all...
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hi Bryan, it is looking nice!
in my opinion the corner where floor and wall meet should be rounded like in the tutorial linked by Rich, the use of HDRI is also a good idea (im not familiar with KT either)
here comes another tutorial with concepts that should work with any application:
http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/V-Ray/3dsMax_tutorial_SL_01.html
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hi guys,
here comes some progress with a night time scene...
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Olishea thanks for your kind comment ...
I owe you a beer!!!
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I like the last one Chedda... nice lighting and nice materials, I like the point of view which shows how the project adapts to the topography... in my opinion: probably the wooden planks are oversized (at least to my eyes) and I would Y shift the lens in a way to see more sky and less asphalt...
are you using Maxwell render suite or is it the standalone plugin for SU???
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snygga bilder! very nice images pixero... is that a 3D tree on foreground on first image???
great job!!!

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cadmunkey thanks man, yes we have only happy clients

Allan your comments are much appreciated...

Chedda thanks! the roof texture is made out of the third image:
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=7839&PHPSESSID=to1ckkjalvt923jetmqig94gh2

Peter, thank you for leaving a comment...

Frederik, thanks, I appreciate your comment...

hi guys,

here comes a new finished project: villa in Skanör (Malmö area), Sweden

software used:
Sketchup (free)
Maxwell standalone plugin (free)
trees and bushes generated with arbaro (free)
grass: Maxwell grass feature
photoshop

postwork done in PS: curves and color correction, sharpening, and compositing

c & c are very welcome

hi guys!
here comes an update...
this is how the images are looking after planting trees, bushes, etc...

the free version of Maxwell standalone plugin for SU does not include an alpha channel (or at least I don't know if it does), I did an experiment to generate my own alpha channel with a simple method:
1- set environment to sky dome and customized its color to magenta,
2- changed then environment to image based,
3- in 'image based channels' set active sky to 'sky dome', the background channel must be changed to 'active sky', and disabled the rest of channels (reflection, refraction and illumination),
4- started rendering... and this is how the image should look like:

5- then in photoshop use the magic wand tool to select the sky and use the selection as mask to merge a sky plate...
hope you find this useful

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hi Bryan, thanks for your comment!

cool! these trees look good...
thanks for the link!
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hi Jason!
thanks for taking the time to watch and comment...

yes, I agree with you, real glass gives better results than AGS (but slower)... that's why I decided to use real glass for the double glazed windows...
actually I´m using panes of 5mm thick with a separation of 15mm, each layer of glass has a different real glass applied and the interior pane has a slight normal bump... this way I could achieve distorted double reflectionson the windows but I found that real glass 'blocks' the suns light coming through windows, so here comes the clay render in action: with all glass hidden I did override all materials using your basic_clay.mxm shared in this thread: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=41040&start=225 (I hope you don't mind ...) finally the clay render is merged in overlay mode in photoshop and ta-da: the composed image has reflections, light and interior details...

definitely I have to test your clear AGS, much appreciated you are sharing!
about using SU layers (auto MXM) to do "multi-color clay render", to be honest I have no idea how it works, but it could be useful for generating for example a material ID channel... thanks again

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thank you ichi!!!

hi guys!
here comes some work in progress of the current work I am involved at the office, it is a villa in Skanör (Malmö area) in Sweden...
as usual:
Sketchup 8
Maxwell standalone plugin (free version)
vegetation generated with Arbaro

your comments are much appreciated
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testing double glazed windows with real glass material

amazing work again, i'm allways wondering wich software u use to create such nice vegetation...
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nice work Chedda! are you using maxwells grass feature???
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hi! in http://www.cgtextures.com/ you can find some tree textures for free (under: nature/trees) some of them come in high resolution only for premium members, but check these others:

http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=50335&PHPSESSID=5ivg2fuglpgaujv59o1sgbqrr5
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=50334&PHPSESSID=5ivg2fuglpgaujv59o1sgbqrr5
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=50327&PHPSESSID=5ivg2fuglpgaujv59o1sgbqrr5
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=50326&PHPSESSID=5ivg2fuglpgaujv59o1sgbqrr5
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=50332&PHPSESSID=5ivg2fuglpgaujv59o1sgbqrr5

personally I use my own 3D trees generated with arbaro
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hi pieterv,
as pixero suggestes: the problem is the axis or pivot location, make sure that the axes of your components (highpoly and proxy) are located along the center of the trunk of the tree...
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nice work Oli! I really like the clay view...
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