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[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, I´ve recently discovered this forum and found a lot of useful tips and tricks that saved hours i would spend to find them out I´m a bit dissapointed that lightworks rendering engine is only briefly described in AC user guide, so i can´t wait for the Dwight´s new book - is there already a date of coming out ?

I´ve just graduated from faculty of architecture in prague so i´ve attached a sample from my diploma project - my first one done in AC 9.0 ..

[Anonymous]

It is great.
Did you have done just with AC9?
Your rendering with color is very strong.

[Anonymous]

Very nice work. The muted color does well to blend the real and rendered.

A pictue is worth a thousand words, you only gave us about 7 dozen. Please explain more about this project and rendering.

[Anonymous]

Yep, it´s been made only in AC 9.0 and enhanced in photoshop. I got the 9.0 just about three weeks before completing the project, but I was pretty happy with the result, especially when considering my low level of lightworks knowledge. The building is a design center for a czech car manufacturer - Skoda Auto, it´s proposed for developing new cars and prototypes, analyzing other manufaturer´s products and some administration. In the fron part of the middle "tower" is a big car lift that transports the cars to different levels and attracts pedestrians from outside.

[Anonymous]

another one ... with scamped photoshop job

[Anonymous]

this is just 9.0 (except for the car, of course )

[Anonymous]

First congratulation for your graduation.
Your rendering skill is incredible.
Ok, you have done with LW and color with Photoshop.

First of all it is very nice, how you can mix the real background picture with your architecture, so perfect.
Please send your work to graphisoft design showcase.
And now you young guy, please say your rendering methode with the background picture.

[Anonymous]

2samsung: Thank you for the nice comments I´ve already sent the renderings to the design showcase, I don´t know when is the next round ... I didn´t get your question about the background picture - I´ve rendered the building with white background and matched with the photo in photoshop - soften edges, erase parts with objects in front/behind the building and enhanced some details (reflection in water, facades, etc.). I can´t say a lot about the LW rendering settings in archicad - as I said, I had no time to learn any methods, so I´ve just guessed. I made it on a slow laptop (P4 1,6GHz, 256Mb RAM) , so I couldn´t have experimented so much. I also had problems with matching the desired color, the laptop´s lcd and the printer.

[Anonymous]

Hi welcome aboard,

This is a reason why I like ArchiCAD- that one can readily produce amazing vizualization with minimum effort.

And man I like the way you have merged the model with the surroundings, it's hard to believe that it was not a camera matching in ArchiCAD

Regards,

[Anonymous]

2Mbarouk: It was a camera matching in ArchiCAD I just rendered the image with white background ...