Thanks Mike. Raylectron's new sky controls are a big leap forward. I need more practice, but I already love it.

Wa... WOW!

You have outdone yourself! Stunning!

Very kind words from you all. Its mostly primitive shapes. Vertex Tools and SUbD do the heavy lifting.

What I found interesting was delving into Blender's EEVEE engine. DAE export from SketchUp and some quick PBR materials and 3secs later you get a render.

I would love a standalone EEVEE engine for SketchUp. That would be bananas!

Hi Mike, if you dont mind me saying I think you are going about teaching yourself rendering the wrong way. You are tasking yourself with being an Architect, Landscape designer and renderer. All arch vis guys I know work from archirects plans and elevations or in the case of more arty personal projects "mood boards, or/and reference images (lots of them) At art school visual artists in just about every discipline have walls or desks full of references. Old school oil painters use a reference, being a real landscape and do pencil sketches of rock formations, that might be called a "study" it is not plagerism.
If you want to do a pool courtyard firstly identify what type of pool courtyard, minimalist, funky, period, art deco then collect lots of images you like in the genre and study them, perhaps try to do a render and try to copy the whole thing, lighting, Architecture, sky type. Then study water levels associated landscaping and plants, of just mash elements together, tilling paving, water levels pool lighting placement and effects.
I have attached some examples of a study I did a while ago, you may note that I did not copy verbatum not that there is any thing wrong with that. And an example of a mood board
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Mood board Credits to: jeremyryanjonathan (CG Architects)

@mike amos said:

Your renders are among those I look for inspiration. They rock, seriously. Thanks mate. 👍

I appreciate your kind words Mike, thanks

Thanks Mike!

The size of the parking space is just me. I prefer wider parking slots. 12ft (3.6m) across.

Of course the delivery van parks how they want. Don't they everywhere? 😆

Thanks guys 😎

Thanks Mike!

Thank tuna!

Thanks loco!

Thanks Mike

Thanks guys 😎

Thanks L i am! 👍 Yep gotcha 5x5. 😎

Thanks Mike! 👍

Thanks to you guys, well it's more or less two thousands hours, including video, but not work, just pleasure!

thank you.

Thanks Mike

@mike amos said:

The business mate, worth a is salary bonus imho. 👍

Thanks very much Mike 👍 It seems those skills are not fully appreciated by the management of my present job as a car parking attendant 🤣

cheers guys 😄 Elmer I see your interests lie in 3D and tropical islands. Twinmotion would be perfect for you as that organic stuff is so easy in that program. But be aware that I have 32 gigs of RAM and 8 gigs of RTX VRAM and I still make my graphics card smoke 😉

Thanks loco . 👍

Properly brilliant job done, made my day to see it. 👊

How did I miss the initial post?

Outstanding work as always! 👍

It is a great model and nice to see it here since it dropped of the grabcad site. 👍