Flamesrule Sketchup Models

[Flamesrule]

Well Here is my new indiv. thread for small scale buildings, stadiums,skyscrapers ect.As of now, I will be showing my older buildings and then once I have the inspiration I will shwo you my new buildings.


Here is one of my older buildings:

Wilatailien Offices

457 Feet Tall

Office Usage

I would place this is downtown Harrisburg, PA and this would be the tallest in Harrisburg, PA. Here is some images:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/WilatailienOffices1.png?t=1282137403

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/WilatailienOffices.png?t=1282137466


More to come.

Current Project(s)

Modern House

Final Kitchen Render:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/finally2.png?t=1295917605


Final Media/Family Room Render:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/finallydone.png?t=1294403629

Final Master bedroom Render until further notice:

Render of the master bedroom:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/Finalmasterbedroom.png?t=1296248070

See lighter version of master bedroom on page three.

Kids Bedroom:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/Thefianlbedroomrender.png?t=1294695188

[M.K.]

wow, yeah Flames, after seeing many comments of yours, finally you made your touches. Don't know if has more threads of you about, if has, put the links cause i personally didn't found with my stupidity lazy search. Actually i like the break even point of this house, but maybe a renderer would help better. This is the problem of sketch up way of building things, not free enough to allow much more than boxes things of still many many today buildings. If you go to put cylindric forms together spheres, pyramids and inverted cubes, oblongs, then you are already in trouble with SU to give a more interesting form. Only toyota and trantor (with all respect he made many languages mobbings with me, but the truth is the truth, i have to admit his abbility) could made miracles on that until now like i've been seen.

[Flamesrule]

wow, yeah Flames, after seeing many comments of yours, finally you made your touches. Don't know if has more threads of you about, if has, put the links cause i personally didn't found with my stupidity lazy search. Actually i like the break even point of this house, but maybe a renderer would help better. This is the problem of sketch up way of building things, not free enough to allow much more than boxes things of still many many today buildings. If you go to put cylindric forms together spheres, pyramids and inverted cubes, oblongs, then you are already in trouble with SU to give a more interesting form. Only toyota and trantor (with all respect he made many languages mobbings with me, but the truth is the truth, i have to admit his abbility) could made miracles on that until now like i've been seen.Hey thanks a lot man!

Here are some links to my other threads on this google sketchup subforum:

My Sketchup City: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=177959&page=7

My OLD Sketchup Model Thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=177658

Freddrick Estates Condo's Project:http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=181979

Here is my own version of the

Harrisburg Mall ,PA

It is a widely known mall in central Pennsylvania and has many of the big clothes shops like Aeropostale, American Eagle, Hollister, Old Navy, Sears, Clairs, Justice,Mens, Wharehouse ect.It has a big food court with a arcade. THe ofverall mall has over 180 fashion stores.

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/NewHarrisburgMall.png?t=1282143151


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/NewHarrisburgMall1.png?t=1282143323

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/NewHarrisburgMall2.png?t=1282143573

[Vellu]

That Wilatailien building pleases my eye very much. Really a design to my liking. :tup:

[Flamesrule]

Well here is my new Skyscraper. It is 880 Feet tall. I'm thinking I would place it in chicago.

Well here is the GLastrow Building.

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/GlastrowBuilding1.jpg?t=1284207915

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/GlastrowBuilding1-1.jpg?t=1284208073

Sorry that one was grainy.^^

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/GlastrowBuilding.jpg?t=1284208107

[Flamesrule]

Modern House

Ok guys, I lost inspiration of the Windrix Office Complex since I havent visited Canada for a while, but I just went back there yesterday so expect a new update soon!


Meanwhile, over the last few weeks I am creating a nice modern house. I want the house to feel "homy" at the same time, though. I think I got that covered down.


Image deleted. Find the final render on the third page.

[Flamesrule]

Image deleted. Find the final render of the media/family room on the 2nd page.

[toyota74]

I quite like the your last skyscraper...but!!! the base seems out of scale
to the rest of the building.I really think you need to find a building in real
life...lets say some 20 floored American office block.Google images would
be a good place to start.Pick an office block and then do google images.

Then try to recreate it in sketch up and if you do it well that will be
the basis for the rest of your models.Sometimes people jump to
do skyscrapers but really its more often harder to do a smaller building.
You really need to be strong on the basics to recreate such a building.

So find a building and recreate it to your best.It would be a test.:cool:

the interiors aint bad,the window aint too good.

[Flamesrule]

^^ Thanks for the reply!


About the base, could you tell me what seems out of scale? The windows? If yes, then you are completely right. I guessed since this wasn't a floor/floor skyscraper.


Also I think that I really have progressed since that skyscraper.(Remember that was created in September.) That skyscraper wasn't a floor/floor, but now my new buildings are.


Anyways thanks for visiting. What do you think of the house?


With all of the suggestions, these will help me a lot!

[Tolbert]

Looks nice so far :) for the kitchen you should add bigger windows for more daylight i think. The living room is very good, only thing you should change is the reflection of the wooden floor. Your night shoot is really nice though:tup:

And, i somehow missed your scraper... which looks good too, but toyota74 is right about the base. Why not try a glassy one?

[toyota74]

:previous: Agreed,take a look at Tolberts city,its a mix of low to medium
rise city,but very difficult to do when you attempt it.So when you can
perfect a 4 floored building or 15 floored then you are on a roll.You need
to master arrays,offsets,copies,mirrors etc.

But you also need to follow architectural styles and find what you like...

[Innsertnamehere]

looks good! the only thing is that you should try and line up the cabinet to the texture...

[Flamesrule]

Thanks everyone!


Innsertnamehere: Yeah, I'm trying to line up the end cabinet to the texture, but it won't let me push/pull. Still trying though,


Tolbert: Thanks! Yeah, I wasn't trying to add that much bitmap when rendering, but I'll tone it down.

Toyota: Ok, thanks fo rthe suggestion! I like modern buildings, but nothing like the Burj Dubai or the Pento, but I like The Freedom tower modernism. I also like box international style style buildings. Though, I'm expecting not t attempt a skyscraper for a while until I finish the office complex, and the house.


Thanks everyone! Expect another render soon of a office room in the house very soon.

[Vellu]

I quite like you're interiors, especially the living room. The kitchen is a bit too "North American" for my taste (strong and heavy colors and shapes).

Some tips to make your indoor renders look more alive and realistic:
- Add frames to your windows
- Almost every surface can use some specular and some bump (this will naturally increase render time). This is not so important, if you're scene is only lit indirectly (light coming in from the windows), because there's not so much light to reflect. But if your scene is light also artificially with lights inside, then it's important that your materials are slightly reflective and not perfectly smooth - like almost every material in real life - because there's so much more light to reflect.
- Use soft shadows (Scene settings - Lights-tab)
- Use Metropolis Light Transport (preset 19) render method for the final render. PhotonMap - Quick (preset 3) is a quick way to test the settings when setting up the scene.

[Flamesrule]

edit post.

[Innsertnamehere]

i like the seats!

[Flamesrule]

i like the seats!

Thanks!


Also Vellu, the next render doesn't have any window frames as I am putting them in when I do the "final and real" renders of the house.



Expect the update to come later today!

[Tolbert]

Really nice! But you window still looks like a picture ;)

maybe you should lover your seeling to 2,50m. Theres a lot of unused space above the kitchen.

[Flamesrule]

Really nice! But you window still looks like a picture ;)

maybe you should lover your seeling to 2,50m. Theres a lot of unused space above the kitchen.

Thanks Tolbert. I forgot to add "thin glass" to the window.


Here is the final render of the living room/ media room and the sitting room.


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/finallydone.png?t=1294403629

[Tolbert]

Looks great :)

[Innsertnamehere]

looks good! but whats with the checkered tile roof above the living room???

[Flamesrule]

Thanks Tolbert and Innsertnamehere!


looks good! but whats with the checkered tile roof above the living room???



Thanks! Eh, I wanted the house to be kinda retro too, but I don't know why I put it on the ceiling.


I never thought rendering with Kerkythea would take so long. My model must be complex.


Anyways expect another final render of the kitchen on Saturday or Sunday! I changed a few things so bare with me.

[Flamesrule]

Edit post.

[toyota74]

Where is the dimmed light coming from?

[Flamesrule]

The chandeleer above it. I place spotlights, but I wanted them to be dimmed. I also just placed another light so it could light up the scene, but the chandeleer light was the light I was talking about.


How does the render look?

[toyota74]

The renders look fine,but if the chandelier is the light source it
wouldnt cast one strong shadow of itself on the cupboards.It
looks like a big light source is coming from the left some where,
its like you have sketchup sun on.

[M.K.]

not only that Toyota, the shadows of the hanging lamps on the wood at right is not in same direction of the main light on left according the sink shadow below. Then this sink is dangerous in some way, too high. I would put the half. But a nice model any way. Of course not my style.

[Flamesrule]

Thx toyota, and MK. I'll change the fossit. I forgot, the chandeleer isn't the main soruce. There is a big light source from the left.(another light)


Sorry for the confusion.

[Flamesrule]

So here is room 1 out of 4 bedrooms. It is a kid's bedroom, with my favourite hockey goalie poster!



Sorry for the pillow, couldn't find a better one.


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/Thefianlbedroomrender.png?t=1294695188


Sorry for the "flying" bed.

[Trantor]

good bed if you want to accidentally fall from the window. :D

[Flamesrule]

Haha, the window looks clear because I put a preset called "thin glass" on it.

[Trantor]

Final Kitchen Render. Note that the lights are dimmed. You can tell because of the island. Also the ceiling is higher, because of a open staircase on the 2nd floor, and there are windows on the top of the roof:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/thefianlkitcehnrender.png?t=1294524284


well, lets say you have room to improve. :D

here is a render I did at Sketchup
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DDwl9lual2c/TCPldrhiBXI/AAAAAAAAANQ/j7Hmabntxzs/s1600/casasilvia03+copy.jpg

[Flamesrule]

What renderer? What are the "presets/settings that you used for the kitchen?

Im using kerkythea.

Also for the bed, I used a preset called thin glass for the window.

[Trantor]

I used VRAY, but you can get that quality with Kerkythea. You will need more detail in your modelling... better textures, etc, etc


in your kitchen, you used a refrigerator that its just a cube with textures, instead of one where everything, including the water dispenser, are modelled. If everything was modelled, you could use different materials for each element. Same thing with the stoves... the stove button textures even have black drawing lines, making the final result look cartoonish.

there are few reflections in your image. Use reflections in MORE materials... most stuff in the real world reflect, you just adjust how much and how they reflect in Kerkythea...

are you sure the refrigerator is the correct height??

another problem is that you are using a point light. Look how hard are the shadows. Oops, I mean shadow. Because there is only one. Not realistic. If its a small light bulb, to produce those hard shadows, then its a VERY STRONG ONE!!

use more lights, use rectangular lights (shadows are not hard), etc, etc

[Flamesrule]

Ah, thank you Trantor! I will redo my render, and do more modeling! I'm almost finished, so expect another kitchen render tomorrow with Trantor's advice.

[Trantor]

arent there too many narrow doors in that hanging closet (or whatever is the name of a kitchen closet in english)? Also, that dark wood door panels in the lower closet look hmmmm... kinda 60s, 70s.

well, whatever. I will try to help you to make your render more realistic. The design is up to you.

[Innsertnamehere]

do you mean kitchen cabinets?
also, is there an exterior to this house?

[Trantor]

do you mean kitchen cabinets?

yes. I was looking for the word. A kitchen cabinet is like wardrobe for kithen utensils :)


also, is there an exterior to this house?

never did it, because it was not necessary.

you can see my renders here if you want
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=5122962#post5122962

[Flamesrule]

do you mean kitchen cabinets?
also, is there an exterior to this house?

If you are referreing to me, yes there is a exterior to this house, but I'm going to include it when I finish all the final renders of the house.

[Trantor]

I must be sincere, I guess I never read the name of the person who asked about the exterior renders of the house. I thought it was you. Thats why I posted the images (you asked, your thread). Since it was NOT you asking for the images, I will delete them.

[Flamesrule]

haha, it's fine Trantor. I wouldn't have known either.


Anyways, here is the new render for the Kitchen. Now, no sun light, just lights inside the house. I added some lights under the cabinets.


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/finally2.png?t=1295917605

[Trantor]

quite more realistic already!

[Rizzo]

I used VRAY, but you can get that quality with Kerkythea. You will need more detail in your modelling... better textures, etc, etc


in your kitchen, you used a refrigerator that its just a cube with textures, instead of one where everything, including the water dispenser, are modelled. If everything was modelled, you could use different materials for each element. Same thing with the stoves... the stove button textures even have black drawing lines, making the final result look cartoonish.

there are few reflections in your image. Use reflections in MORE materials... most stuff in the real world reflect, you just adjust how much and how they reflect in Kerkythea...

are you sure the refrigerator is the correct height??

another problem is that you are using a point light. Look how hard are the shadows. Oops, I mean shadow. Because there is only one. Not realistic. If its a small light bulb, to produce those hard shadows, then its a VERY STRONG ONE!!

use more lights, use rectangular lights (shadows are not hard), etc, etc


Vray can get tricky. You start throwing in a ton of rectangular lights and the rendering time skyrockets. plus within interiors you have to set the irradiance maps high so your renderings don't blotch. I love just sticking with exteriors, although when you get the time available, vray for SU can do some nice stuff.

[Innsertnamehere]

looks much better! love still think the fridge is a bit small though.

[Trantor]

plus within interiors you have to set the irradiance maps high so your renderings don't blotch.

use IrradianceMap+LightCache instead of IrradianceMap+DeterministicMonteCarlo

[caltrane74]

looks like money, I like it!!

I'll buy it!

lol!

[Flamesrule]

Thanks Trantor, and Caltrane!

Anyways, here is a render of the master bedroom.

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/Finalmasterbedroom.png?t=1296248070

And a lighter version:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/Finalmasterbedroom-1.png?t=1296248214

[tech_bonus]

Who'd have thought that SSP would turn out to be a pretty decent source on tips, tricks and advice for SU. I don't know...it's just something about creative types coming together to help/push each other.

Flames, you seem to to be progressing quite nicely with these interiors. But the best part is that you heard some insightful criticism/suggestions, applied the changes, and it worked great for you.

Trantor, that interior you did was also fantastic.

Alright....all these colors and textures, reflections and light are pressing me to atleast texture my own house model. :D

[Innsertnamehere]

i like the pillows! also, great rendering.

[Flamesrule]

Thanks guys!

[Flamesrule]

Here is a raw- right out of the renderer shot of the skyscraper so far.


The whole project is 260 meters. So far, the skyscraper is 84 meters.


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/RiKeR.png?t=1297555375

This will be the only update of the skyscraper until its completion

[Innsertnamehere]

looks great! you've improved so much since tennington!

[Trantor]

The whole project is 260 meters. So far, the skyscraper is 84 meters.


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/RiKeR.png?t=1297555375

17 floors and 84 meters??? Thats almost 5 meters per floor! I have seen churches with lower ceiling heights :D

[Trantor]

The whole project is 260 meters. So far, the skyscraper is 84 meters.


http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/RiKeR.png?t=1297555375

17 floors and 84 meters??? Thats almost 5 meters per floor! I have seen churches with lower ceiling heights :D

[Flamesrule]

Each floor is about 4 meters, but the thickness of each floor is 0.7 meters.

[Space Cowboy]

wow great design so far flames. can't wait to see it complete :)

[Flamesrule]

Thanks Space!

[Trantor]

Each floor is about 4 meters, but the thickness of each floor is 0.7 meters.

still... isnt it too much?

maybe floor to ceiling should be about 3.5-3.7, + 0.5-0.7 of floor thickness.

[Flamesrule]

I present you the finished RikerResidence House INC Regional Headquarters

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/rikerResidence213.png?t=1298044101

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/done-1.png?t=1298044139

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/LASTLY.png?t=1298044169

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/FinalImageforRikeResidence.png?t=1297987588


Also, here is a sneakpeak of my next skyscraper:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/skyscraper.png?t=1298497441

[Foun10Head-X]

Hey, looking good! I love the renders you made.

[Vellu]

The Riker Residence is a very nice design! I love the effort you've put in to the details! Only thing that bothers me is that there's no load-bearing structure. I think that if you're using transparent glass on your model, you should also model the structural elements - the core and the columns - otherwise it will lack a great deal of realism.

Great job nonetheless! :tup:

[Flamesrule]

Thnaks Vellu! I'll add a core and other details to make it more realistic for my next projects to come.


Well, here is my newest design.

RichField Enterprises Center

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/skyscraper.png?t=1298497441

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/skyscraper-1.png?t=1300664870

I wanted the glass to be frosted.

[Flamesrule]

New model, this is supposed to be a museum of some sorts. Not my best works, but I like it.

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/Flamesrule/musarchi.png?t=1312718328

[ShiningTower]

cool. like the richfield enterprises centre.

[verticalextropy]

amen to Richfield, if the glass were simply more opaque you'll get that massive yet sleek feeling to it.

oviously second vellu on the lack of core or exoskeleton, But nice proportions!

don't care for the museum of "some sorts" ;-D

[Flamesrule]

Hey guys, I'm proud to present you my newest project, The Berkhart!

The Berkhart is a mixed used highrise on the edge of Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In the main part of the highrise, it is mainly residential, but on the edge of it, is office use. Since Harrisburg is so "Packed", I wanted to construct a highrise that is "spread out", I guess you could say.

Looking at front:

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1153/block1picture1.png

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/5937/block1picture2.png

Looking at the back edge of the highrise:

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/571/block1picture3.png

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7784/block1picture4.png

[Innsertnamehere]

nice! your best design yet! though mind you, dense urban cities tend not have 1 floor podiums.