@davecoopstl said:

@Technohippy - Did you have to change the Permissions to the ...SketchUp 2013\Materials folder? Or somewhere else?

I'm about to install RichSection on another user's computer, and I'm trying to figure out what to expect.

Let us know.
Dave.

I just changed the permissions for the whole sketchup folder and made sure The user profile as well as the admin was set to full control.

Using windows 8 and sketchup 2013

This is just great. Got it working by fiddling with the folder permissions, thanks for this

@mistro11 said:

Very nice. Hope you see many more projects. I have a building pending for a decision myself. It would be my first. It must be a good feeling to know something you designed in Sketchup will actually be built.

Thanks,

The knowledge it will be built is fairly awesome, Good luck with your decision!!

thanks guys

@rich o brien said:

Hi Andrew,

Nice to see you back around the place. Fantastic images

Thanks Rich... nice to be back... its been a while!!

Recently picked up my first two commissions, a couple of replacement dwellings for Design and Materials Ltd. Both were awarded their planning permissions with the clients understandably happy!

As always its a learning process. The first project was this

there's a few things I would do differently even now, the faked in grass and fencing could be better, but I'm really happy with the overall feel of this piece. Photos for the panoramas were taken by me and stitched in hugin.

The photos for the second piece were taken by the client without a tripod which made stitching the panorama quite problematic. Also the the photos were taken on a grey day which made matching the lighting quite difficult. Getting the foreground tree to look natural in front of the new building was also quite challenging.

All the modelling was done in Sketchup, rendering was done in kerkythea, compositing and post pro in Gimp with some final tweaks in picasa. picasa's filters really help to blend all the elements together and have great tonal control.

@mitcorb said:

Hi, Andrew:
This is excellent. You really have mastered the technique. Besides the overall pleasing image, is the incorporation of the geometry beyond in faint sketch style, giving the viewer an idea of the whole form.

Thank you, high praise indeed!

I was very pleased with the outcome, the tutorial I followed is brilliant and made producing this, frankly, really quite easy.

My "go to" architectural model gets a different sort of treatment this time following this excellent tutorial http://www.alexhogrefe.com/blog/2012/9/9/sketches-part-2-extended.html

This image http://fav.me/d2reokf was used in the making of this

Modelled - sketchup
clay render - kerkythea
post pro - gimp

@roger said:

Mottle the light hitting the driveway. Like light filtering down through tree branches Add some foreground framing.

great idea... I shall try that

@daniel said:

Looks good. Two comments: 1) looks a little too hazy, out of focus, and 2) on the right, the straight angled lines where the building meets the grade do not look natural.

Thank you... two very good points. The first is easily tweakable in gimp, the second might have to be a bit of hand painting, as it were. Although I was intending to add a bit more greenery, planting along the walls etc, so that might be the best idea.