Soap Skin Bubble Plugin and Tensile too!

http://www.tensile-structures.de/

Diffuse, Transparency, and Reflection Map

what can a set of simple texture can do to your perspective diffuse map
reflection map translucency map
you can see the result here
*ive make some mistakes for this post here, and now it has been rectify

http://www.cgtextures.com/

Soften Edges in V-ray

ever wonder does Sketch Up's soften edges makes any different when you render it in V-ray?

the answer is YES!

heres the different

WIP residential

LUMION 3D

I've been lucky enough to get a hand to tryout an awesome software LUMION 3D.

very suitable if you try to make an animation out of your sketchup model. quite fast (depending on your rig of coz :D)

but still unmatched to the power of vray :)

very fast to produce, equipped with their own set of 3d library which is awesome!!. especially on the vegetation parts. the picture i attached below doesnt have any PS work in it, just fresh out of the software. did not require much time spent learning on it. Pretty good tool for someone who need their job done quickly. and the best part is....... IT ... CAN... PRODUCE .... AN... ANIMATION... quite fast comparing other regular 3d rendering software