Since there's an excellent Austin thread, I thought I might start one on SA. I'm just figuring out how to use Google Sketchup and Kerkythea rendering software, but I thought I'd start with one of SA's biggest, and easiest, too, the Weston Centre. Google Earth has only a few pitiful models for SA, so I thought maybe we could all start modelling some. When I come back to town I'm going to take a bunch of pics with this in mind. I opted not to use photo-textures for my model, even though I have a bunch of pics of the Weston, because I wanted to render reflections in the glass (I'll make it darker) in Kerkythea. I also guessed as to the landscaping around the building based on the Google Earth and Virtual Earth aerial pics. I know the river is a good 15-20' below street level here, with a stone retaining wall, but I have to go take a closer look when I'm in town to get it right. I'm also going to make the windows smaller...
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