Ive been picking up lots of tips from this site and think ive got a long way to go before my work matches most peoples here ( creeping over ;) ). Right anyway any suggestions for this image? I realise the window frame is slightly out I need to resize some of those blocks and also when stretching the original plate model it seems to have ended up slightly off centre.

My main problem is that i turned off receive shadows on the wall. I then decided it didnt look right and everytime i switch them back on they dont reappear! Any ideas? Thanks for taking your time to read my post.

Welcome Zanny, for a while there I was thinking you where the clone of Zhann. But obviously not, sorry Zhann. ;) Maybe a second thinner frame on top of the original one would solve some of the issues related to the window. A quick fix to the reflectivity problem would be to retexture the object. Nice start and a nice view out of the window.

I am not sure how you stretched out the plate, very nice plate BTW, but if you place the curser over the middle of the "resizer" arrows and move it either right or left it will make smaller or larger your object keeping its proportions. I hope this makes sense. It looks like you tried to make it larger by moving the X and Z arrows which could make it off center.

I like the wallpaper pattern too!:)

Did you turn off shadows anywhere else - for example in the skylab? Good start. Another option for making your window frame might be to use booleans to cut two holes in one block instead of piecing several blocks together. By the way, what is the scene through the window? Lin

Thanks for your comments people :) I think im going to rebuild the scene from scratch be easier that way, nice idea for the windows Lin, oh and the pic is some castle picture i found on a photogallery on the net.