Poser 1-4 have low poly options that look like FF characters when imported, poser 5 and 6 have higher poly figures great for foreground placement. Poser 7 has way too many bugs to even bother with, install is too big and it takes ages to load, and it lags bad.

so in answering...it depends where you want the figure fore or backround.

A useful tip: if import is clothed then remove anatomy that is not visible, including tongue, teeth etc, as that reduces the size considerably.

solo,

i saw them in podium one at a time, i did not realize once you put them together as a collection they are really something.

Scary on scary! Love the light over the door so hard to get to...gives the image some more "used to be but not so much now". I think a barred horiz slit window in the exposed foundation on the right, bars broken and bent out of course, with an eery colored faint light from below, would be a nice touch.

That looks great Solo. Another Podium rendering?

Solo sorry for posting it here

Podium V1.5 is now released and ready for download. You can read all about new features here

SU Podium is an easy to use rendering plugin for SketchUp - Add photo realistic lighting, materials, and reflections to your drawings

Happy rendering

Thank guys, I appreciate your replies.

Below is another Ando work called the Nihonbashi house, this time I did a bit of PS editing to one render.

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/387/nihonbashihouse4800ra0.jpg

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8314/nihonbashihouse2800wx9.jpg

hi solo,

both render styles are very nice..

.....great work, but do you ever sleep...??

cheers,

Gareth

Wow! this is good stuff Solo! Your textures are right on.
The trees behind the building contribute to the color dynamics.

yeah..streetview is pretty interesting.. they just recently added my neighborhood 😄

Coen, 'bitchy' doesen't suit you. 😄
Sounds like you had a bad experience at FFs....but then maybe there wasn't a huge demand for hamburger, intergalatic cannon etc. components 😄
Stu

Well, to me the three spheres more or less seem to be at the same distance so blurring them so much does not really give the DOF but rather an effect to emphesise the red ball (that's the only sharp object in the scene) even more. 😒

I'm ready to move in...

of course he doesnt, or else he woudl stop posting....b/c he's obviously gonna get a ton of praise on everything he posts..haha.. 😒 😄

Lots of very good input here. I have faith in the new forum looking excellent.

I was also a fan of the look of the old forums also, they where nice and streamlined with a professional look.

@john2 said:

So, can you upload the images again via SCF attachment system or imgur.com?

I do not have them any more, those were done two or three computers ago.

I'm not sure I have your email address.

Send an email to
http://wiki.renderplus.com/images/d/d3/Support-email.PNG
and I'll send your the .SKP

@unknownuser said:

i didn't want to start a new thread for sponza in glass so i'm just doing a little hijacking here 😄... can you email the skp to me as well?

@dave r said:

How would one draw a ghost in SketchUp? 😄

With hidden edges..? 😉

how did you make it solo? what method did you use to create the ripples? I'm sure everyone would be interested to know!