It seems
such a long time ago since I bought the
Twilight renderer for SketchUp and played with it a little. I was slightly put off by the amount of time it takes to render a reasonably detailed image but I guess that's just the nature of the beast.
More than a year after starting a model of the Valley Forge from the 70's movie Silent Running I finally went back to it and
finished it. After all the work it took me to complete it and the invaluable help I got from Taff Goch who is geodesic master I figured it was worth firing up Twilight once again. I have a reasonably powerful quad core 64 bit Windows machine and this render took about 2.5 hours using 100% of my CPU for most of that time. I added the lens flare in PhotoShop Elements 8 afterwards. I'm still learning about twilight and I've been given a few pointers from the
Twilight forum that I will try to incorporate for more refined attempt but I think you'll see that it's worth the time and effort when you compare it to the 2D export direct from SketchUp
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Twilight render of The Valley Forge |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWza5NMSVjy0SOjtIoP6E_1TuOENT1TMW0Rdubh_vthMpYHhu3jIKN0swZoA30-dEVWPOFMxEuwDuV1ZkVR4zOFipYtmJOWgZAKo-vOgbg9xxIdQ8IBeCknNpY5TpdHRRDJSJjhUwBlk/s640/ValleyForgeAssembledNew+Domes.jpg) |
Native SketchUp 2D Render |
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