Pool with Lighting, Kerkythea

[Stu Mayhew]

Using SketchUp and the Kerkythea plug-in.

Kerkythea is great for a totally free app. and the plug-in in SketchUp makes it a breeze for a rendering clunkhead like me.

[bytor]

Stu,

 

That is a wonderfull image - I truly like the "feel" of it. With so much vegetation - it is more photoreal than I thought would look right. Are your plants a mix of 2d / 3d? Were they generated elsewhere and brought in to Sketchup?

 

Thanks for sharing this - I remember the npr versions from somewhere else!

 

Bytor

[Stu Mayhew]

Thanks Dean,

The plants are all 3D.

Some come from FormFonts [The Palms, Strelitzia, Monstrea] some came from the old SketchUp forum and some I made myself using Plant Studio.

Its more difficult to get a realistic effect using 3D entourage but it makes composition and natural shadow effects so much easier;)

Stu

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Nice image.

 

I wonder why Kerkythea is not still being taken really seriously by the majority of the visualisers. It is simple and easy to use.

 

PRSS

[Stu Mayhew]

Thanks P.R.S.,

 

I obviously agree with you.

I think it can produce images at least on par with apps. like Artlantis, for example.

[IC]

I think you've hit the nail on the head. The images are like those produced by Artlantis but these days, virtually no-one uses Artlantis because there are such advanced alternatives.

 

They are nice images but you are limited to a certain standard and if that works for you that's great.

[jendrzych]

Since Kerkythea offers both - biased and unbiased render methods, it's beyond doubt that Artlantis can't be compared with KT.

Check KT's gallery at kerkythea.net...

or look at first three pics here:

http://jendrzych.cgsociety.org/gallery/

[gabrielaca]

i agree, KTY is a great renderer i´m myself just started to use it, and is really easy to use.