Lighthouse in SketchUp

**Russell L. Thomas** · 12-04-2006, 03:29 AM

Just a quick model of a lighthouse I did recently, nothing to fancy, just needed to closely replicate an existing lighthouse for far away viewing.

**Director Bob** · 12-04-2006, 03:55 AM

Looking good

**neha** · 12-04-2006, 09:48 AM

Looking good Russell...I would love to see the final render whenever you are done with it

**speedline** · 12-06-2006, 05:00 PM

Awesome Russell,
Sketchup is easy, right? I didn't used it yet.
Are you going to render it with Maxwell?

Cheers
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**neha** · 12-06-2006, 06:11 PM

What is the difference between the cream and blue colored faces...I think I read somewhere that the blue ones are flipped and won't show when imported in max...is that so??

**Russell L. Thomas** · 12-06-2006, 09:52 PM

Yes Neha, if you are in monotone mode, you can see the normals, any poly that is facing you and is blue is reversed. Select the face and right mouse button and chose 'Reverse Face'. Should be good to go

Speedy, hopefully you will be able to see a good rendering sometime next week. Thanks!

**neha** · 12-06-2006, 09:56 PM

Thanks Russell

**Director Bob** · 12-11-2006, 01:52 AM

Mr. Russell How is the work on this going. Are you doing the textures in SketchUp? Looking fullword to the render

**Russell L. Thomas** · 12-11-2006, 02:30 AM

I ran out of time in the finding shores contest and had to composite and post process the heck out of several draft/test renders from Vue Infinite. I am rendering it now with high quality settings, but it has been rendering for a week already and is 27% done, with a total estimated time of 266 hours, so I hope it is good! You can see why I didn't have my rendering done in time! LOL Anyway, my entry was a landscape to provoke the emotion of 'Finding Shore' and not an attempt at doing a fantastic rendering of a lighhouse, it is in the distance. Perhaps I will put up the model in our resources when I get enough time to update our selection on the main site. Well I will show what I was able to come up with, but it isn't what I planned. Maybe in a couple weeks when this render finishes, I can show something good!

Please no power outages, please no power outages, please...............

Neha and Paulo on the other hand came up with a beautiful renderings for the contest, Neha's located here: Pharos Lighthouse, Alexandria

The main thing was to support another site's contest, so the three of us hung out there a bit. So if you haven't gone to Vizdeopt or 'VD' as we like to call it, you should check it out. http://www.vizdepot.com/

**neha** · 12-11-2006, 03:00 PM

OMG...that is really LONG!! I hope there is no power outage or any other problem and the rendering goes smoothly...I'm really looking forward to see your final version.