Modelhead is right to suggest moving out and narrowing the angle of vision. You can also use a view camera and use the swings and tilts to modify the perspective. However perfect orthographic projection would require an infinite distance from the object which is just not practical. However you can also jimmy the perspective in photoshop.

In the attached render I photographed one screw head and one each of two types of holes and then used photoshop to twist the perspective for each screw and hole on the mechanism. If I had set my SU drawing to an othographic perspective I would only have had to do that once instead of hundreds of times, but in this case I wanted some perspective.

When I think adirondack chair and components I think individual flat boards or collections of boards on a plane. I would just shoot the the chair square on for each flat surface, give the surfaces some thickness in SU and then assemble. It seems very straight forward to me. But then everything does until I get into trouble.

Don't you know that SketchUp can't be used for organic models.

I saw a whole lot of your work in the 3D warehouse while searching for some sculptures.

Nice lyrical work.

I was looking at an interiors magazine the other night while in the book store flipping through pages looking for ideas on modern apartments. One photo really cracked me up. On the far side of a room stood a life-size face-me component rendering person executed in painted plywood. Made kind of a nice art piece, but only a dedicated SketcherUpper could fully appreciate it. My wife thought I was crazy for laughing while reading an interiors magazine.

Mike, sorry to hear about your cancer. I had a lump removed from my leg they thought would be non cancerous. Unfortunately "they" were wrong. Turns out to be a rare form and I had to do a second operation. Now they want to do a little radiation therapy too. This morning they told me they had me scheduled for a PET scan, but I told them my dog would not stand still for it.

No question, this stuff is hard to deal with.

The desert is a beautiful place.

For 15 minutes after sunrise and 15 minutes before sunset.

We are also trying to figure out global warming. At 117F in the summer a few more degress are just as unbearable as a few less degrees.

I am from Pennsylvania which is about the greenest spot in the nation. Growing up there I never thought about the smell of trees. When my dad died I went back and as I got off the planes, I didn't know what I was smelling until I realized it was the plants and the trees.

Oh and I forgot to mention we have some scorpions about the size of those ants and the gila monsters are even larger.

Stinkie, I don't understand what you meant about vegetation on mountains. Out here in the Sonoran desert the only vegetation on the mountains is more rocks. It looked like home to me . And I thought the render looked good because of the dramatic sky rather than in spite of the dramatic sky.

I like drama. I see clear blue skys about 11.5 months each year. Drama drama, I must have more drama.

Are these renders all done from the same file without adjustment to the lighting after exporting from SU? KT looks by far the best, but I find it hard to believe it is the same lighting scheme. However my only experience is with KT for automated renders.

Very good point regarding the seating. Tell your wife thanks. Some side seating should be in order. That is a big room. I didn't have floor plans to work from, but I did count a lot of floor tiles. You could probably fit a hockey rink in there. An idea my son would love.

I think I agree, perhaps the glass table on the foreground goes and I can pull the Navajo rug forward to fill that space. First I will see how the client meeting goes tomorrow and then decide how much more work goes into the render. It is a big room and it is a challenge to keep it from seeming empty. Also I haven't added any lights yet.

All in all I am relatively impressed with the possibilities of photo match. If I do more of this I will try to get involved in the photography and make sure some story poles are included in the shot.

Remus, I was looking at your avatar photo and trying to figure where in the world you would be that looks so cold wet and lonely.

I just started working with a real estate agent who deal in homes that are in the $1.5 million and up range. She stages furniture into the homes so the rooms can show their full potential. This costs about $2,500 per home per month. For three homes that comes to $25,000 in three months.

She has decided to cut losses and instead of staging the homes, I am designing and rendering interiors for her and the drawings will be posted on easels in each room.

For this first test I did a photo match from one of the shots she shows on her website.

This is almost pure sketchUp / photomatch. I did a version with shadows, one version without shadows and one version with out lines. Then I melded the three layers in PS as the whim moved me. I also pan to run this through Kerkythea for the final boards.

I am hoping that in addition to renders I can do some actual interior work for the new owner post sale.

I an interested in your comments.

By the way I have not finished coloring and texturing the Stickley settle.

Methinks the lady protesteth too much.

When you post work that good, you undercut your own argument against SU as an organic tool.

I am doing some work with photomatch for interiors right now and am finding that it is a very useful tool, but I have some caveats. Projected textures of floors and ceiling are coming out way darker than the original photo. It seems that is a programming draw back. Anyone else have comments on this. Also when projecting a hallway back it took off at a different angle even though I used the hall to set up one of my vanishing points.

Sue, I need to pop over to your company web page and see what you have in the way of furniture. I am going to need a ton of it in different styles. More than I want to model in a short time.

The moire has nothing to do with the render and everything to do with screen resolution. Note that when you look at the enlarged version there is no moire. Any repeat pattern will moire at certain enlargements. Also it is good practice to enlarge and reduce images by even numbers as odd numbers will cause some ugly screen interactions. You also almost never see checked suits on TV because the moire combined with motion can drive viewers crazy.

depressing subject

I am starting a new client relationship which I think may call for a direct SU approach without additional rendering. Your style for this project will be in the back of my mind as I start on this project. What you have done is very spare but effective.

I don't understand why you switched from flat connecting arms to the flat arm with the round rod coming out of it? It looks weaker than the rest of the construction.

Signed sealed delivered and invoiced. Added some architectural detail and worked on the blur. Rather than remove the blur I superimposed a sharp tree over a blurred tree. As if I had blurred the tree during a long time exposure and the popped a flash to freeze some detail. So it has some sense of motion and still makes the people happy that thought there was too much blur.

Now I am off on a new set of residential projects to show how empty rooms mightlook furnished so buyers are tantalized by the spaces possibilities.

![Foreground trees with a "sharp on blur" technique.](/uploads/imported_attachments/7K5C_afshar_render_signed_sm.jpg "Foreground trees with a "sharp on blur" technique.")

It is a play on the name of this thread. The bowel is part of your intestinal tract and if you have a bowel problem, it would cause you to revisit the bathroom (Bathroom Revisited). In English this is what is known as a bad joke.

Sometimes these wonderful insights just appear to me in the middle of the night. What can I say?

Kwisten, bowel problem?