A Bench and a Stool

L i am

Interesting, I did not know about Vray partnership. The landscape of renderers is both complex and dynamic. I for instance do not understand how Twinmotion is not more, obvious choice for SketchUp users. Free,powerful, easy to learn and with so many free assets with rapid development. I do not have a clue why TM is not an obvious choice. feel free to challenge me on this

Rich O Brien

Without derailing Dave's topic too much I believe its horses for courses. Realtime engine with lower grade light path tracing capabilities don't have the same clarity as pure dedicated light path engines.

That would be why I don't consider TM or D5 in my workflow. Other opinions may differ.

@Dave-R

Always sublime models my friend. You must love this new PBR flourish they added in 2025. It so suited to your presentation methods.

RIP Stylebuilder

Dave R

@Rich-O-Brien I agree with you regarding better renders. Vray and others will always have the edge. i don't see Trimble bloating SketchUp with a full-blown renderer. Their arrangement with Chaos Group for the Studio subscription makes better sense than including a full renderer in SketchUp from a development and management point of view, too.

Thank you for the compliments. This does work well for some of my presentations.

You and I have gotten a lot of use from Style Builder. My guess is most SketchUp users have never even opened it or know what it does. Seems the vast majority of users want to create photo-realistic images of their models and don't like the sketchy look. I plan to keep it around as long as I can and will still use it.

ntxdave

@Dave-R said in A Bench and a Stool:

Their arrangement with Chaos Group for the Studio subscription makes better sense than including a full renderer in SketchUp from a development and management point of view, too.

Can you elaborate on this a little more or tell where to look this up?

Rich O Brien

https://www.sketchup.com/en/plans-and-pricing

The Studio plan includes Vray at ~$750/yr

Dave R

@ntxdave sorry. @Rich-O-Brien beat me to it.

If you want to use Vray for editing, the Studio subscription is less than the Pro sub and buying Vray separately.

ntxdave

Thanks guys. I will stick with thr Pro license.

Dave R

Slowly putting things together.

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Need to model the rest of the chair I guess. Never done that before.

tuna1957

@Dave-R Looks great. From your other posts it seams like your design is a success.

L i am

@Rich-O-Brien I fail to understand how you say TM has a lower render engine. With my objective head on, so I did a search for "twinmotion renders" and Vray renders. I could not see any difference with render quality of output from Vray and Twinmotion at all. I am confused.

Dave R

@tuna1957 thank you. It does seem to be working fine. The original side things on the foot plate were PLA which is brittle and one of them got broken. Easy enough to print new ones. The current ones are PETG and seem to be holding but I got a spool of TPU yesterday and made a new set that are a little flexible. Maybe they won't break. We'll see when I get the opportunity to swap them in.