Have you tried doing the 'Repair' to SketchUp's installation, as explained earlier ? If not, then try it and see if that helps... Note that sometimes correcting SketchUp's installation using the Repair can still leave some extensions' subfolders with faulty permissions. The reported folder... C:/Users/Adorian/AppData/Local/LIBFREDO6_DATA_Dir might be one of them... Try deleting that folder and its contents. It is hidden by default but pasting the path into a Windows Explorer windows address bar should still get you there - or change Folder-Options to shown hidden files/folders... After that, when SketchUp restarts and Fredo's tools run that folder and its contents will be recreated - this time with the permissions set up properly...

jary: I think I could have made somewhat comparable renderings in Vray for SU., but I would have had to sacrifice several things because of SU's limitations...Couldnt have done the rug, vegetation would have been different, and a few other models like the car would haver never been usable in SU. Oh, and the fire was the Phoenix plugin for vray in max. But SU, like always, was still the primary tool in the core of the models. Thanks for the feedback though earthmover: Thanks man, always nice hearing from you. I had a blast doing it. I wish I had enough work to just do 3D, but I had to diversify so ive been getting heavy into things like web design, graphic design, and photography. I just got a canon 60D camera and youd b amazed how much better you begin to understand vray after working with a real DSLR camera. Bryan: It was kind of a labor of love. The artist is a friend of mine and I kinda went overboard and did way more work than what I got out of it monetarily, but we were both happy in the end so it was worth it. Here is another site I did for a different artist that you may like (http://www.joeyfattz.com). Thanks again for the comments

Heres the rest of the projects...didnt get them all in the first post

we should choose the 5 best plugin scripts writers who contribute their times over the years and reward them a dollar per member to show our appreciation of their hardwork. I am willing to contribute 5 if everybody on the board does it.

In what context? It's probably best to talk to the head teacher, to gain permission to photograph the children. As a photographer, I do a lot of work with schools, but in my experience photographing can be a nightmare because you need to gain the permission of both the school and the parents. If you can do that, it's a simple case of getting the kids to pose, then using SketchUp to draw around the figures to create those 2D cut-outs, SketchUp's trademark. I don't think there is any other way around this, because of all the laws set out to protect children from exploitation (it's all very silly I know- as if the bogieman is always hiding in the wings- perhaps ) Good luck. (you're probably going to need it! ) Tom

Thank you for all the kind words guys...I have a few projects that I am working on now, but when I wrap those up, I will post some wireframe/SU views to give everyone a better idea of the post production work that went into a lot of these. I am glad everyone enjoyed my work and thanks for the comments.

thanks guys...im glad you like these and the feedback is great Frederik: I see what you mean about the DOF. It was actually done in post production. I go back and forth between trying it with the vray camera and photoshop, but for this one I just had an extra rendering that I did and I just tried playing with it to make the view a little more interesting cause I really didnt like the original camera angle to begin with. The photography concepts are still something that I am battling with to get better at. I have never taken a photography class and I honestly have never used a camera other than a dinky little digital one. I plan to look around for more photography resources, because my only knowledge has been from reading information on vray's physical camera since they say it tries to replicate one in real life . But thanks again bud. Unkr: Thanks. DOF does only work with a phys cam from what I know. I am not sure how it handles in the newest version, but when it gets all worked out, it should work very easily from what I would guess. Derm: Im glad you brought up the desing, because I forgot to mention that the design is not mine. I took it from a kitchen rep. poster lying around the office and I wanted to see how closely I could match the scene since it was a practice project. Then as you see me update this (hopefully), I desinged the rest of the house around this kitchen with my own design ideas. Ur right about the toaster...I wanted make it the faucet, but it just wasnt working for me in photoshop Solo: Thanks bud. That chick was brought up too on the ASGVIS forum and I totally see it now...she makes it look way too staged and you perfectly put that into words with your quote. And I dont think she is blended perfectly into the scene yet either and I think positioning her where i did and the fact that she is looking right at the camera doesnt help because it makes her a focal point like someone had suggested to me. The metal is a brushed material that I was practicing to make myself...it still needs work, but Teofas guided me to a really nice one that someone made that I amg goin to try in this scene. Oli: Thanks, im glad you like it

@tig said: http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs/ I've talked to the developer of that software. I gave him the info I knew about the .skp file format and he has already implemented .skp support. When he release it I encourage people to give him a little donation for his work.

thanks ken. im glad you liked it

Thank you all for the feedback. All great points that will help make me a better artist and hopefully benefit others that see the thread. Dean: Im really liking the working world. Its scary at times when projects dont seem to be coming in, but our firm seems to keep a decent balance. But I am glad you mentioned something about the image saturation; that is something I have been worrying about, because it is a struggle for me at times to pull back with things like that. I probably need to tone things down a bit. I hope my monitor is reading properly...Anyways, I hope things are going well for you as well. The motion blur is another thing...I am so glad to feedback on that, because thats another example of something I thought needed to be toned down and hearing that helps make that more apparent. I am also glad to hear people keep mentioning the skies, because i agree that they are too distracting and I, as well as many others, might benefit from some good sky resources. I get most of them from cgtextures or 1000skies and I think my library is running really thin, because most of theirs are pretty busy looking. Anyone have any good resources for free or paid ones? Also does anyone have good suggestions for sky gradients...I try doing it in photoshop, but they always seem to be lacking and I end going back to using some of these more busy skies. But thanks again for all the great feedback guys, if you have any questions...please dont hesitate to ask.

the road is actually just a texture that I imported from cgtextures.com. Nothing special at all. I think the blurred effect is a result of me stretching the texture so far in one direction so that the road did not appear "tiled" in that view. That combined, with the motion blur of the car are probably what is giving you that impression. Then I vaguely added some cracks in photoshop to give a bit more randomness to the road... they are fairly unoticeable though and you probably cant even notice them.

your exactly right...I dont know where I would be if I didnt have the help and constructive criticism that I get on these forums. I think thats a compliment to guys like you and the rest of this community.

If you're that worried, just ask your boss if you could work at home.

cool jenu. thanks for confirming that. Im gonna have to test that out sometime

I think freeagent just said it best. SU is just too quick and intuitive for me to replace it yet with max (if ever) for the core my models. For me, I work a lot off of CAD plans and elevations, and SU makes creating walls and such so easy and accurate. And navigation within your model feels more at your control with SU than max (that may just be my preference). I think that autodesk realizes the exact situation that we are discussing right now and that is why they created a script to directly import SU models in max 2010. Thanks Nomer, I am glad you like it. I hope to post some tips and tricks sometime soon on the ASGvis thread I had started a bit ago.

thanks micha... i will test this water out and see what i come up with. Much appreciated.

they are called "smart trees" and you should be able to find them in the warehouse. I am struggling to find the link, so if anyone has it available, please post. I will keep looking and update

thanks jamalito

thats a good tip...honestly thank you. I have never gotten into the workings of a camera (and I probably should considering the relations between them and rendering), but that makes a lot of sense. I will try that method in the future sometime. But thanks again for the explanation.

awesome guys. Thank you...very much appreciated. They all seem to be very good resources and its great that they all seem to have minimal fees.