Hi Dave R - Thanks for the tips. I'll download ThomThom's CleanUp3 tonight.

it makes life easy and maybe then you prefer to tweak materials or even migrate to easier or even harde/more aqqurate render engines . about KT, I've prepared a fast start you can find it over net (KT fat start 4 architects), and hope you like it

Cracked it. The objects which were behaving in the oposite way had been mirrored using scale -1. For some reason this makes the section planes act in reverse. Thanks Wo3Dan for your assistance. Cheers, Steve.

I didn't get much more time on this so couldn't let the renders run for long but the plants etc helped. Thanks guys for your comments. [image: eAkB_ReceptionDesk12.jpg] [image: CjgQ_WaitingArea02.jpg]

Thanks aadb. I didn't think about a bump for each tile. I'll give that a go. Cheers, Steve.

that's the one - thanks

It was rendered in Kerkythea using MLT. I had all the point lights set to produce soft shadows so not sure why they came out so harsh. Maybe I should be using spots rather than point lights or maybe it's something I'm missing. Agree with point about empty room - I just threw it together to practice rendering so didn't spend too long on it. Thanks for comments.

Very nice. I'd eat there.

Nice....very nice.....good start....kee going and please post some more

So far so good. I would edit out the pass through the column. Also, try making the animation a bit smoother. The pauses seem really long after a bit. Scott

nice..i've used this too... gets your point across very easily

That's great - Thanks a lot for your help.

It's good news that at least the Ati FireGL cards can be made to work with SU. Google has been somewhat cautious about all Ati cards lately. Anssi

Here is the plugin: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=161784 and of course, all previous versions still have the import option (although as an "official" download, Google only provides the latest version for the Free SU).