Complimenti per il lavoro...è il caso di dire epico! e complimenti per l'idea di usare sketchup, immagino risvegli parecchio la voglia di imparare nei ragazzi. Una curiosità: la finalità didattica qual è esattamente?

Have you tried the flag 'log me automatically' ? ...and then, wich browser are you using?

@thomthom said:

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Though I thing Fredo has some feature like that...

I believe so... eg 'round corner' can do it

one more THANK YOU
...and one more request in such a tool it's usefull having the Esc key available, to stop the process if it take too long than expected

http://www.indigorenderer.com/

...perhaps a short self-presentation is welcome, somewhere here in the forum there should be some basic rules about how posting

@unknownuser said:

Seems Blender can make the same than Max even more for 0 $
Blender is the SU of Max
In five years I bet that more people use Blender than Max!

I don't know Max at all, but generally speaking Blender follows with a bit delay the other commercial products without adding real innovations, even Blender's people say that it can't be compared to the 'bigs' , eg zbrush for the sculpting, nevertheless Blender offers a very wide suite of tools (modeling, rendering, animation, compositing...) to get professional results for 0$ as you say that i Believe has no equals in the CG world.
I'm trying to learn it for a couple of months but I have to say it's really really harder than sketchup, especially having a CAD mind-set like mine

at least they have a safety belt

@solo said:

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Max toolbars stay where you leave them.

absolutely this is a good reason to buy a 3ds license.

seriously, if you're going to be a professionist you must also consider what others (clients and mates) use, eg here in Italy I see most of architects use 3ds although they don't always need it, I also see many bad works done with 3ds and think: I can make much better with sketchup... but if I were an architect maybe I'd use it because of the interexchange of projects

wow! I'm embarassed for such compliments have I done some step up the ladder?
The placemat is made with clipmap alpha + bump + diffuse channels(KT doesn't provide displacement) using the same texture previously modified in Gimp for the several uses
The mirror is a matte/phong with layered textures (this inspired me) in the specular and diffuse channels.
Thanks all
Luca

Hi all,
for a pretty long time I didn't play with kerkythea... so I've done a little scene
C&C are welcome as usual

Hi! the scene is well done, to me, but... any further info? it seems you've used some render engine.. but the image looks pretty like a raw SU view. And what's the purpose? I mean if you're working for a photorealistic scene there are so many issues yet...

@broomstick said:

.. We are so few...

...and it's so difficult to know those few if they don't show their 'location' or use a recognizable nickname

Ciao Andrea benvenuto!
It's a pleasure to see new italian users, I guess italian section is not too lively but with a little practice using online translators you won't have problems.
Ciao

mmmmm... I love Escher, nice one! It deserves more care, I think. Not the model, of course, but materials and environment could improve a lot.
cheers

Your comments are precious as always Roger.
I always draw in scale 1:1 , I knew little objects may have problems in SU but never tested myself.
I don't believe the scene needs a coloured light (if I understood well...) there's a spherical background with a room image and some point lights as you can see in the plastic reflections so I think the one to fix up is the plug. Having not given it a radius in the edges did was a mistake
I'm almost thinking to rework all the scene from scratch... almost, time it's never enough

Hi Scott, actually I wanted show it like some brand new product rather than a realistic one, so I don't agree about the scratches. Also I like the reflective surface very much.
About the laying of the keys I know it's strange, but I worked around for a while and cannot able to find a better position, I should have been using sketchyphisics to solve definitively.
Thanks anyway, I really appreciated your comments

you can disable the scene transition in the animation settings (model info window)

@majid said:

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here are some of my tries
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If these are first tries.... what can you achieve within a month Majid??

thanks Jeff for so many compliments
You're absolutely right about the plug, I set a bump map since a metal sheet cannot be so 'flat' as a mirror but something has gone wrong and I did not figured out why, I get often problems with UV and scale settings in Kerkythea, expecially with the procedural bitmaps

Let's change subject...I did this scene some months ago, but I'd got troubles with the steel brush mapping, now I believe it works somehow