I'm glad you like it, here is the wireframe:
http://limitedgaming.com/files/128/scv-tex-40wire2.png

thx Ono and Gengibre

Blender, GIMP, rendered in Indigo 1.0.6 under Ubuntu 7.10 (~20 hrs, Athlon64 1.8 )

based on a concept from SC:Ghost

another renders:
http://limitedgaming.com/files/128/foru ... 8detal.jpg
http://limitedgaming.com/files/128/foru ... tex-39.jpg

why the floor texture is so... random? looks really strange, like a one huge piece of wood. I know, it may be a linoleum, but render - opposed to photo - must make us believe it's real. find some textures of wood, cut several rectangles and join them into a seamless tex as for lighting, I would add ...

IOR 1.2, exponent 500. sky turbidity 1.9

check some CG forums (don't be afraid, mental or v-ray renders don't bite :twisted: ) - look how people deal with studio/environment setups for objects in similar scale. as for the box art design... find some tutorials or articles focusing on magazine covers or posters. the problems are the same: ty...

I used SCV from Starcraft II as a reference. my biggest fault here was not to use exit portals... that's my second Indigo scene, pxl666 told me about them when I stopped the render - after 33 hrs this scene was made for tests. I wanted to try out physical sky, transparent materials and Camera tonema...

I've got the same bug, material is Diffuse w/ Transparent ON
why it's dark inside...?

hah, I've got exactly the same problem with resuming. I run Indigo on Wine, don't sure it's important here. I tested it on two scenes. the render was in progress for several hours, then I stopped it and - after resume - rendered longer. only a few pixel changed, compared to the image I used to resum...