...well, certainly: if Money is God then Corporations are people!

Hope y'all have a swell solstice!

wow!

wow!

I took that png, created a void mask, made the mask 1 pixel wider, then erased the chainlink thinner...and it looks better, to me, in SU and rendered.

Thanks for the tips, Guys (and the laughs :`)

Jan, went with the Cintiq12WX bundled with Painter12: a reasonable business deductable, I think...and after watching all the videos I could find, I think I'm gonna be thanking you more later.

My best to all, Tom.

@utiler said:

How 'bout one of these, Tom?

http://www.shawspeedandcustom.co.uk/Shaw-Harley-Davidson-Custom-Bikes-Details.asp?customid=90

I can see you on a Bell & Ross Nascafe racer....

Really...REALLY!

Cool ideas so far, Guys...thanks! (Yeah, tried that first Mike, but the trouble with upgrades is that I prefer the older versions of most of the software I use: go figure :`)

Think this would work well as a monitor with SU and rendering apps?

(www.walmart.com)

Hey all,

I just discovered I made more than I spent this year, so I need to spend some of it this month or it will go to taxes and rent (I now live in a senior HUD housing project so 1/3 of my income goes to rent). Trouble is I don't really need anything...so maybe you guys can help me get interested in a new toy to learn a new skill, or anything else a reasonably honest self-employed home-office entrepreneur could write off as a business expense (two grand or less, thanks...I didn't work that hard :`)

Best, Tom.

Wow, David...WOW!

...happy halloween!

Wow! Thanks guys...I had all but given up on the project ('cause I couldn't really think where I'd use them either :`) You can already change the color of the leaves (the bark too) in the SU material editor and I will play around with a transparent bark texture.
Best, Tom.

Woke up this morning with this crazy idea and decided to trash out a quick concept model. (The render just proved the leaf edge line would actually cast a shadow :`)

Anyway, if you could/would use them:

Which do you prefer?
Where/how would you use them?
What would make them better?
Would a transparent line-drawing bark texture be useful?

NEWTREE.skp

NEWTREE2.skp

Yeah! (and my thanks

@chris fullmer said:

@unknownuser said:

...Your renders are great, now try it on one of Tom's models, see if it works

Yes...please and thank you!

Andre, thank you so much! Do the shadows from the pngs project on the ground okay?

@unknownuser said:

Actually, what exactly is what you are asking? Maxwell renders any model and it doesn't cough if you have many polygons. :? Or you are worried about materials? Maxwell "knows" sss for dingle faced geometry, so you can benefit of that for leafs.

dereeei: could/would you test these for me please and post?

oops...thanks, Pete:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=26618&p=229446&hilit=tomsdesk+trees#p229446

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=17149&hilit=tomsdesk+trees&start=45

Bump...help please?

Have you done it?

How'd you do it?

Post an example, please?

governments : bankers/corporations : sameo-sameo