Really nice texturing, love it! However, it would all be cast concrete, right? So the bricks showing through look out of place.

These are lovely sketches, thanks for sharing them here!

@rv1974 said:

It's not.

I know, that was the point of my comment. Seems like yet another year SU adds some small tool tweak and "performance improvements" in the name of keeping the $$$ubscription model afloat.

@rich o brien said:

But if the extension ecosystem is used to feed their 'roadmap' then that's not great if you've worked on a tool for years and its simply cloned.

1000%

That's another underlying point I was snarkily making, best exemplified by solo's meme above.

@rich o brien said:

3d for everyone...

But they do keep adding tools... that's why I am posing the question about pace. SU devs obviously have to evaluate if the tools can be made "for everyone"

Good question about what one might consider the major plugins. Things like FredoScale, Weld, Tools on Surface, some Extrusion Tools, SmartDrop, Align, ThruPaint, Cleanup, Make Face. Just offhand some of the less complex (on the user-end) ones I use pretty much daily. (Not getting into more complicated ones like Quadface & Vertex tools, Skatter, etc.)

Yes, that is the underlying question, is the cost worth it for something so incomplete. (And will it ever be offered in a "complete" state?)

I saw a post on the Enscape forum that one user was experiencing all sorts of bugs in the SU 2023 installation, so I thought.. why install the latest SU release? I see a major new feature is the "flip" tool... which sounds like the mirror plugin from the mid aughts with a few tweaks and spit-shines. Also, some parts of selection toys seems to have gotten incorporated as well. So here's my guess that by about 2040 we'll see most major plugins of the last 2 decades incorporated into base SU. You heard it here first, check back in the next decade and let me know how it's progressing.

Yes, Blender has gotten rid of "remove doubles" and now relies solely on "merge by distance" now. Never did fix the collada export issues, but doesn't matter as I'm only using Enscape and not rendering in Blender lately.

Incredible! Thanks for sharing!

Such a horrific situation, truly. There's an archviz studio ArchCGI (I think I'd bought assets from them before and am on their email list) have sent out a plea for donations. Some of their employees are in Ukraine. Here's the donation link https://savekyiv.org/

body of their email:

@unknownuser said:

Dear colleagues!

We are ArchiCGI 3D rendering studio. Today, we are writing to you not for professional reasons, but to ask for help. Our production offices are situated in Ukraine, and the country is now invaded by Russian troops. They destroy villages, lay siege to towns and cities, bomb and shell residential quarters. Tonight, they attacked our nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe. Last week, the troops occupied the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Some of our 3D artists had to leave for safer parts of the country, and some joined the Defensive Army. We help them by volunteering. We raise money, buy necessities in Europe, take them to Poland, and then — to Ukraine.

We take care of the elderly and gravely ill who cannot find the medicines they need, and often don’t have the means to buy food. So we deliver necessities across Kyiv right into their homes.

So far, we have raised 174 910,14 USD. You can see what we bought and where we took the humanitarian aid in this presentation.

View the Presentation

Unfortunately, that’s not nearly enough to help everyone, and the situation in the country degrades.

Would you like to join forces with us and help those in need? You could do this by donating at https://savekyiv.org/

On this site, you will find how we organized the process, what we buy, and how we take it from Europe to homes in Kyiv.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to write to us.

Wishing you peaceful homes and thrilling projects,

Best Regards,
ArchiCGI Team