I am still struggling with the best way of setting complex rails to my model. is the newest profile builder really the best way to setup complex rails with junctions and so on? here I have a typical project to solve: I have set the way for the rails and the proxy for followme. [image: 1787220244170-duew-depot1-1-resized.jpg] duew-depot1-1.skp

Pictures generated by IA from my 3d renders in Blender. Text IA. Here is a new set of images based on my Taurus building, part of my series of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure-inspired Stands reinterpreted through the European zodiac. The original building was modeled in SketchUp, with additional sculpting work done in Nomad on iPad, then assembled and rendered in Blender/Cycles. For this new experiment, I used my own 3D renders as a strict architectural base and asked AI to develop different scenes from them. One important rule throughout the process was to preserve the geometry of the building as much as possible. The AI was mainly used to reinterpret materials, improve photorealism, change the lighting and atmosphere, and add characters or narrative elements. The first group is in color, with a more magical and extravagant atmosphere. The building becomes inhabited by strange creatures and characters: a unicorn-headed butler welcoming children, a cloud-being pouring a rainbow from a champagne coupe, an Indian princess with a hummingbird-headed prince, a moonlit hive with silver-and-blue bees and a strange smoke filled with eyes, or a crocodile postman delivering a sealed parchment to an old king drinking chai on his balcony. For the second group I completely changed direction and switched to black and white. I wanted something much darker and more unsettling, inspired by the atmosphere of old spooky cartoons from the late 1920s and early 1930s, but imagined as if those worlds existed in real life. IA added strong grain, dramatic lighting and a slightly old-film look. The building is then invaded by ghostly figures, spider webs, skull-headed doves, violent thunderstorms, giant carnivorous plants and insects, or a strange party where all the guests wear black bodysuits painted with skeleton bones while hundreds of candles melt over the façade. So the basic architecture remains the same, but each render becomes a small scene with its own story and atmosphere. It was also an interesting way for me to use AI not as a substitute for the 3D work, but as a tool for art direction, lighting, material exploration and visual storytelling on top of an existing model. [image: 1786971279560-base01.jpg] [image: 1786971290058-ia01.jpg] [image: 1786971305103-base02.jpg] [image: 1786971312983-ia02.jpg] [image: 1786971327093-base03.jpg] [image: 1786971335303-ia03.jpg] [image: 1786971350417-base04.jpg] [image: 1786971358650-ia04.jpg] [image: 1786971373621-base05.jpg] [image: 1786971381433-ia05.jpg] [image: 1786971793770-modele06-resized.jpg] [image: 1786971799880-ia06.jpg] [image: 1786971810018-modele07-resized.jpg] [image: 1786971820408-ia07.jpg] [image: 1786971831285-modele08-resized.jpg] [image: 1786971838243-ia08.jpg] [image: 1786971854352-modele09-resized.jpg] [image: 1786971861986-ia09.jpg] [image: 1786971872817-modele010-resized.jpg] [image: 1786971881212-ia010.jpg]

Wow, very impressive results!

@pixelcruncher Ta mate, great news and better when I find some automotive ies files. I am using colour as an emitter and point/spot lights which does not work tbh. Might be better with auto exposure deselected.

Your workflow is one of the ways many people exploring. Good for communicate with clients without starting 3D in details and applied materials. Got some examples [image: 1785925262900-spacely-ai-standard-20260805101939-nz7km.png] [image: 1785925263021-spacely-ai-standard-20260805101933-re0ls.png] [image: 1785925263157-spacely-ai-standard-20260805101913-e8qr9.png]

You come up with amazing results, seriously inventive. Having lived in a similar space in Birmingham for a while, unless the residents are stumpy, they will need a bone dome. Not joking. The attic conversion Sara and I lived in led to more than a few cranial collisions.

The point I am making with these renders is, that with a SICK pc (Not in the good meaning of the word), I can get these results - Rayscaper and a decent pc will fly.

A lot more efficient than any I have been to. Last time I came across a public baths that was not a swimming pool was around 1968-9. Latchmere bathes was a huge Victorian hall with a swimming pool in the middle. The front of house had actual bathtub niches, men one side and women the other. My memory say's six per side. The rear of the building was the boiler/furnace where clinical waste was burned with coal to heat pool water and allow for the massive industrial washing machines because nobody had those at home. We had no fridge either until about 70-72 sometime. It's odd, the places an image can take us, I have clear memory of seeing old folk going into those bath niches. That and my dad taking me for the one and only time to swim there, I couldn't at the time. When I went down for the sixth time or so, someone suggested my dad pull me out or watch me drown. That was what he said anyway. Thanks for the reminder Majid, a somehow less complex and simpler time then, as you often say, may we return to simpler and more mutually respectful days with children grow up being children rather than statistics. https://www.lostlidos.co.uk/1998/06/01/latchmere-road-baths/ There was a rail bridge on the road to the baths, so low that they had to dip the road under it and every spring it would flood to about 1.5m. Not to mention autumn rains. Sorry, like I said, memories woke up.

Just a quick mention that I placed a disc at ground level underneath the car and made it glass to give something for a shadow/reflection to give some depth. Not perfect but something.

Sounds like a good update. Had a quick test. Definitely creates compelling images. My main feedback would be the UI. The font, in places, is tiny and the colour contrast between font color and UI background adds to the readability concerns. What I did like is the depth of options. But the free tier means you can't really test these. The voice on the Guide was difficult to listen to and I have yet to find a way to skip steps. As soon as you stop the Guide it resets to Step 1. [image: 1784559831544-e61e730a-af9b-429c-aca9-6842be96654b-image.jpeg] [image: 1784559811933-0f3b609e-b525-4157-a53e-e2389792249b-image.jpeg]

And again..... [image: 1784410653601-5-4000s-4000-x-2404-1565362-tri-1h-05m-47s-gpu-resized.png]

Ta Rich, not so bad I have found zero then..........

@mike-amos Thanks for constructive feedback. @b2pi Let me know how I may share the file, plz?

@HornOxx I have free credis on Meshy. Feel free to ask me if you need a model

Bloody marvelous, I LMAO.

@Rich-O-Brien I like that clock, too. Once in a while I see them listed for sale but they are pretty dearly priced. [image: 1780487440729-measured-time-resized.png]

Ta, mates rate to you so only 1.5 mil. OK, you talked me down so 50p. I found a site stocking Gaggenau stuff and had a look for inspiration. I could not find a single unit with zero symmetry faults so started again and went down the Rabbit hole so it is completely different from origin. I will revisit at a later stage. Done though.......

[image: 1778537724974-flyball-governor-b-resized.png] Here's a flyball governor. Modeled and rendered in SU2026.