Thanks Dave, I'll give it a try.

Very helpful and interesting, thanks solo

Hi Solo, It's always a pleasure to look at your renders. Airport background enlights the Hall. Looking at the third picture, I notice the big plant is not really mirrored on the tiles, we see the pot but not the plant's foot. I hope it's may help. MALAISE

Oh crap! Sorry BTM. I dont think you could exactly blow a hole in something with what I am talking about. Say you had a big wall and you hit it hard with a small object. It would break the wall into at least two pieces, not make a hole shaped piece.

I love FFD, Bezier Curved Edges, FreeScale etc etc. Beaucoup Fun!

hehehe You should add that to this thread: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17444 it'd be nice to collect all the odd messages.

i love the way you presented a peek on how you model organic shapes.. love it solo/

I thoroughly understand this woman's plight. I once called 911 because I vending machine stole my quarter. well . .I woulda called 911 but I didn't know the number. and BTW that picture above is just so nasty. . .

@al hart said: If you use RPC for other things - Revit, Photoshop, etc., then try it out with IRender nXt and let us know what you think. I am not using RPC and I don't know if other forum members do. The reason why I asked is because I would love to be able to include animated textures in my animations. Things like a moving sky with clouds, people walking, animated water etc.... I just said RPC as I don't know how it is done otherwise. (Marlin Studios moving people etc...)

@arail said: This is a useful site http://www.defcon-x.de/c4d/textures but notice they're very heavy files so they have to be sampled down. Luis - those images are beautiful. Can I use them in my next stair model? Hi arail, Of course you can ! These textures have been found on the web.

wonderful as always

Pete, thats a very god start. If you want your verticals to go perpendicular to the horizon, you need to adjust the len shift value in the physical camera. When I was using VfSU, I would start with about 0.1 for a shot from ground eye-level. Quickest way to get this right is to tick the material override and reduce the render output size whilst you test out which lens shift value gets your verticals upright.

they look great....all you need now is a style to make the rest of it look oil painted

@chris fullmer said: And Paul, sounds like you should check out randor.rb. It does all minor rotates and scaling for you. I generally like it pretty good. Or Didier's Component Spray tool as it has a "click one to place one" option as well and you can pre-define random rotation, scale and (AFAIK) even tilt (is it tilt? like leaning sideways a bit).

Steelers, Thanks. Vue has always been a standalone app, the only thing is now it has a .skp importer and a very improved radiosity engine. Yeah there really is not much online as far as SU and Vue goes, however in my websites keywords Sketchup to Vue is my number one refering search and on Pushpullbar I'm listed as the only SU/Vue resource, which is strange IMO as they work so well together. The learning curve is hard to guage as I've been using it a long time, in fact before finding SU I was using Vue with Max models, so i'd say it's about the same as KT/V-ray as far as learning curve goes.

We've not used that in our office. It's usually too much detail for top plans.

@artchung said: The Oscar goes to......SOLO GNOME... [image: 3304076764_3937de3a3d_o.jpg] This one surely must win bye a mile.

THX I must buy this plant!

@kwistenbiebel said: I am currently looking into Rhino as well. It is a complete modeling suite , plugin based as well(Bongo for animation, Grasshopper for parametrics etc...) and it has all the major render engines. When things would go bad for Sketchup in the future, Rhino is a good backup. It has a built-in 'Layout' and its suited for printing 2D drawings. Not a bad option... Rhino is an amazing program. It has a very very small learning curve to be able to do the basics quite well. McNeel really does a bang up job making the program user friendly for how advanced and accurate it is. RhinoScript also does parametrics with a bit more intricacy/accuracy than Grasshopper, given it is much more difficult to use. McNeel is also working on a new renderer called Toucan to replace Flamingo (which is getting quite dated), and it looks extremely promising. SketchUp to Podium will always be my go to just because its so dang fast and easy, but Rhino is a pretty incredible tool, imho.