Thanks for the comments guys, yea solo i will be entering the image as soon as i can get the file attachment thing to work on their website

I guess its a matter of taste, but im happy with the scale of the turbine and church

thanks for the comment mate, yeah health and saftey would have a field day with my scene, thank god for artistic licence eh? i've just added the raw SU for comparison

Hey guys,

finished the image, hope you like it

and SU raw

cheers guys, mapping is done in sketchup with a bit of care & patience textures are a mixture of my own photo's and stuff from cgtextures.com. Those in the image are just diffuse textures, i've yet to add reflections and bump but im working on it

time is money

I still use 7.1 for everything but I do have 8 installed soley for the improved google earth connectivity.
I use this very occasionally for bringing in terrains and for texturing surrounding buildings using the street view textures for aerial shots.
The reason im sticking with 7.1 is lazyness really, its not worth the effort of transfering my rubys and render engines across which i guess doesn't say much for v8.
On the whole its a

great image, i was following this over at the hover forum, it turned out great. Just one real crit from me and thats your POV, i find if the image is taken from a human perspective it really helps with realism, floating some meters off the ground always makes things more 'CG'-ish.
I'm gutted i never got to finish my image, i shall no doubt post it here when i get chance to complete it. I guess we were some of the few using sketchup, is this vray?

great stuff ken, i really like the last one, is the scenery rendered in vue?

Hey guys heres my WIP for my latested image, thought i'd show a bit of my process. Essentially its a steam-punk type turbine assembly platform within an old ruined church. The last image is an inital rough out of the mood i'm looking for the piece, still to add textures to the turbine, a welding guy (in Sang's location), some puddles and moss etc and bump maps to the current textures. Everything bar the turbine is modelled in SU and rendered with Vray for SU.

Cheers

I have a bamboo which is a great budget pad, its pretty useless with SU tho. However its essential for photoshop, I cant use PS anymore without it

nevermind done it, TIG's obj importer succeeded where the native importers failed

looks interesting, has any of you guys managed to get the turbine into sketchup? it keeps conking out on me??

Spot on! If Carlsberg made road plugins....

Hi guys,

I've currently got a task of placing a new road onto a steep topographic mesh. What would you suggest is the easiest way of achieving this? Any plugin suggestions and workflow?

Cheers

These are great for a tight timescale, v nice lighting. Whats your render engine?

@unknownuser said:

Those are royal palms which have a green almost plastic like stalk at the top of the trunk

There you go, learn something new everyday. We don't get many of those in Birmingham

These are excellent! Great lighting
What going on at the top of the trunks on the palm trees?

wow guys thanks for letting me know! i submitted that ages ago! Thats my 2nd Vismasters award within a month. all done with sketchup and vray naturally

Hey guys has anyone had this problem and have a workaround?

When I import jpeg's (or any image file) via File> import I get an error message reading image file invalid. I can normally open a new SU file, import it and explode to get it into the file im working with but this is a pain.

This doesn't always happen and appears to occur on the second or third image i bring in which makes me think its down to some sort of memory limitation but i've got the same error with different file sizes. I've had this occur on both SU 7.1 & 8

Any thoughts?