@rv1974
I draw in Procreate on my iPad. The first book has sold well but not that I can live from it. Working part time and writing part time for now.

Thanks Rich, some of those terms are beyond me but I will look into it 👍

Or this another one ? 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgJ4iQyfnY

@mike amos said:

It looks as though rendering is going through a once a decade shift, so many ?AI? render sites/programs etc are coming on stream so the next basic toolset might just include a bluddy dictionary........

How many old stle render resources will still be here within the next two years? Twilight is gone now and others like Maxwell have glacial development lead times while the current ethos appears to be constant change.

This is one of the main reason why I'm more and more specializing in very specific stuff, detailed/animated objects, custom shapes and textures, optimized models for VR/AR/realtime/web, teaching 3d for VR developers and all this kind of technical-oriented stuff.
Where i live the "classic" render market is already bloated with people working fast, but at really bad quality and underwaged, possibly cracking software and avoiding taxes in most cases.
So i think AI will make not a big difference for me (at least in the next few years), right now is a problem of those sloppy "collegues".
I'm done with that market, their analog stupidity has already screwed that well before AI was even a thing.
The only option I found to survive is doing those "hard" stuff that they can't or want not learn to do.. I hardly recall the last time I did a "classic" architectural still render 😕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ZGnlyrXqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GwDeHuFh-s

you've never seen this before? Me either ..

Thank you all for contributing. good points Mike and Rich,
It seems that humans relationship is based on fear, instead of trust. We trust our family and friends, less trust our neighbors, and feel others as probable enemies... others do the same. It is naive to consider everyone as friends because we fear each other and hurt each other then... It starts from fear and ends in fear. What if it could start from kindness and end in kindness If it is possible to reframe a society based on trust? make all the laws and regulations based on trust? help each other to make trust? these are things wandering in my mind...

Feather
Draw line / curve on a "Grid" (surface)

https://images2.imgbox.com/a5/63/FJKXiZGh_o.jpg

Export OBJ.. it's a volume

https://images2.imgbox.com/2a/d4/HyYctlGv_o.jpg

Thanks Rich, I will giv it a go 👍

Looks like norton is scamming me for software hard sell for not much, fake reporting?

Drivers 2.jpg

I emailed them asking how he's doing, keep your fingers crossed ..

That looks interesting Rich, I'll check it out!

Thanks guys 👍 👍

@mike amos said:

I had a go at this. https://www.promeai.com/blender

Use an image from the Alfa 33. It would be better if the AI merely afjusted the light rather than buggering the textures though.

I think that most if not all Ai Image programs allow for comtrol over how much it can change materials

Humanity's leadership leans towards conflict, cruelty and control. The powerful prosecute to keep power.

It's sad. The eventual 'winners' are still losers. Even though we know it we plough on regardless. Repeating same scenarios over and over.

The war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on disinformation, war on free speech, war on gender....its always the same. The world needs to demilitarize and get back to just getting along.

We live in a cloud of pessimism and distraction. Hopefully the fog clears and the next generation have more sunny days.

you have now free Online!
https://www.vectorpea.com/ (illustrator like)

😉

Here is a link to the Raylectron Free SketchUp Plugin which by itself is very interesting (more details). Thanks for finding this L I am. 👍

Somehow I picture Trimble charging a fee to use other people's plugins. Maybe charge a licensing fee to developers.

Sorry folks, my sense of humour got the better of me and I know marketing types are getting a bit 'radical' with their concepts.

How this will encourage folk into a paid version from the free I do not know but good luck to them.

Marketing, a shorter way of saying, Obfuscation......

The company I bought my pc from earlier this year has on site repair, however, the contractor will do nothing unless I agree to them charging me a £250 software reinstall fee. There was no mention of this when I bought the pc so they can shove that where solar radiation is not an issue.

Marketing.....

Best of luck with which ever decision you go with. I just bought a new Dell XPS 8950 for work and I love it! Mine was a bit over $3k but it has to last for 4-5 years. It runs all my applications with ease. Specs are listed under my posts.