Out in the Backyard

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Stu

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Posted 1229234759	Reply with quote #1

Lots of Pngs and Tiffs bringing this model up to about 130Mb And lots of bugsplats as well. I found the best way was to work with specific layers for particular views and have everything else turned off. __________________ http://www.landesign.com.au

bigstick

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Posted 1229248033	Reply with quote #2

Stu - these are awesome! I think your work, more than any I have seen anywhere else shows how SU (and Podium) can be used as a Landscape design tool. Fantastic! __________________ Aut viam inveniam aut faciam Hannibal Barca ______________________________________ This is what I do in my day job

iluxa

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Posted 1229248289	Reply with quote #3

wow! Bigstick you are right! Need to try

Tuts3d

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Posted 1229272437	Reply with quote #4

Great job Stu! Everything looks natural and nothing looks out of place. __________________ The only way to cure a doctor, is to hand him his own bitter pill

Fella77

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Posted 1229272586	Reply with quote #5

Fantastic work Stu! The grass is awesome! Did all that come from the plant library? I am very curious as to what the un rendered screen shot looks like?? (hint) __________________ Ready....Set....Render!

Stinkie

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Posted 1229281737	Reply with quote #6

I agree. This looks good. __________________ It's quite possible I have no idea what I'm talking about.

edson

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Posted 1229281912	Reply with quote #7

amazing work, stu. are these podium trees? __________________ -- edson mahfuz architect \| porto alegre, brasil \| http://www.mahfuz.arq.br If you do not believe that less is more, anyone can get you more for more, but it takes genius to get you more for less.

Stu

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Posted 1229285919	Reply with quote #8

Thanks very much Guys! My biggest thanks, though, goes to Tavi and the Crew who, with 1.6, made it possible to import Pngs and Tiffs with a transparent background. This saved all the mucking around with clip maps but more importantly made composing an image so much easier without the black or white masks which made it impossible to see what the image actually looked like with out constant test renders. Fella, as you can see the non rendered screen shot doesn't look all that different......but you can see the outlines of the image masks. The plants come from the library, from ImageCels and from Andrew Dale's Enviro Graphic. And...as the old saying goes.....the closer you think you get to photorealism the further away you realize you are __________________ http://www.landesign.com.au

TBD

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Posted 1229293772	Reply with quote #9

but you can see the outlines of the image masks. you can disable the edges/profiles display in Styles window to get a more similar Podium look in Sketchup

jhagan421

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Posted 1229571162	Reply with quote #10

"the closer you think you get to photorealism the further away you realize you are " good point stu. These are really outstanding, the landscaping is beautiful. the only thing I would say is that the plantings look SO real that it makes the architecture stand out as being not. Perhaps a bit more detail of connections and/or bases of elements like the wood frame arch.

Stu

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Posted 1229572147	Reply with quote #11

Thanks Josh, So a few more nuts and bolts?......I think your right!! Just as some architects will be a bit dismissive of the landscape I guess I suffer from the reverse. __________________ http://www.landesign.com.au

jhagan421

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Posted 1229572732	Reply with quote #12

exactly - it could even be pegs. maybe a base detail as well, I hate to say a foundation, but it seems a bit, well, floaty - I certainly appriciate the landscape - it is the putting it together that boggs me down -

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