Ivar van der Drift - The Kite House

[sodrifi]

Hereby i post also a not completely ready-pictures i wanted to put in the entry, but didnt make it because of the crash of my laptop....
I also cant show all the things i put in the house, as ideas, because they are hidden within the walls. It uses the latest innovations so it can be a modern house with all modern stuff because the house is powered by Kite-electrical-energy combined with old-fashioned OTG use of windmills (as shown in the background of the main-picture).
How to get the energy of the kite is shown on the website shown earlier in the thread.

Good luck everyone!!!

[Rod]

I still want to know where you got that picture of my wife!! LOL, glad she returned, I thought she'd been whisked away by one of the kites that had broken loose!

[sodrifi]

I must say... you have a lovely wife i met her in Germany...
But as you take a good look at my moneyshot ... see is in the picture above the couch
You are a lucky boy with a wife like her!!!!
And... no ... she cant kite....

[sodrifi]

Hi all,
Just to inform you how my work progress went....
I like to model in Sketchup because it is an easy to use program.
I took out the windowframes and replaced them by high "harmonica"-slidingdoors. I kept the roof and woodpanel underneath the roof. Kept the outerwalls between the window frames and the outdoor-lamp. I enlarged the wooden balcony and had to model the wood because i first didnt know how to create them with displacement in Vray for sketchup.
I made the model wider and copied the frames. I also used the fence and balusters provided in the standard model.
@ andymarkthomas: The google warehouse is a nice library to get some ready models although the quality to use them and export them you have to remodel them almost allways. For example, there was a model of the "dutchtub" but this one didn't match the real measures so i had to remodel it. Also when you use Vray for Sketchup you have to change allmost every material when you want it to turn out well!
But this also a thing when you use 3dsmax with mental ray and an old library of for instance Evermotion... I like to bring some personal touch in my images so i put always a photos of myself, my wife or sons in it.

See the picture: i took a same shot from the provided model which i used for my final entry

[Visualator]

You've certainly taken Sketchup a lot further then I ever have. Well done.

[sodrifi]

Just to show my build-up of my entry-image i post this image.
The first part is the modeling-phase, the second is the materialising-phase and the third is the render-phase.

Greetz!