Experimenting with some night time HDR.

This one is also work related.

Inspired by Mike Amos's "Singer developed 911." post I picked up this 1967 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale from Wire Wheels Club for around 10 USD. It's an amazing model. I keep putting off modeling a car.

This could be a great asset for renders. I rendered these in D5 Render. You get a Blender, FBX, Max and Obj file. I didn't try importing this into Sketchup. I imported it into D5 from Blender and all the material imported without a glitch.

The creator of the model is Luis Lara Osorio,

Hold the phone! Change in plans. He decided to nix the overhangs fire protection since embers end up there and start fires. Also increased the roof pitch. The floor plan stays the same. I left the windows and door in place except for the new entry design. I know some people prefer the 50s ranch look but what the client wants the client gets.

A few houses in the general neighborhood area survived but the rest is burned down and almost looks flattened. A lot of the old house had those wide overhangs. Some with exposed rafter tails. A fire rated soffit board could help. Roof vents are another access point for embers. I assume we'll be seeing a lot of houses being rebuilt without overhangs.

He also said he wasn't an Alfa-Romeo guy.

Thanks! I added a rowboat and some handrails. And some kind of mountain from Blender/Blenderkit. Looks a little bald. Reading the comments I was thinking about putting in a submerged car in the pond.

Thanks!

Some extras. OK, I keep trying different things.

I have too many renderings of this project. Here's one.

Did I post this already other than in WIP. Anyway, here's something close to final.

Thanks. If it's magic I must be on the right track. Trying some new styles instead of the usual stark front lighting. Shading and fog adds to a mood. I admit I get tired of looking at the same thing while I'm working on anything for too long.

Couple more...

Split things up. Far less glass.

Messing around with more twin-t construction. I wanted to make this a hobby shop but can't find the appropriate assets. Don't really feel like making it from scratch. Storefront is probably too upscale for this use.

Nothing to do no where to go oh.

Thanks guys! Thought I'd create an extended roof for a porch on the ADU. I don't know whatever happened with that ADU plan. Was planned for the backyard of a Victorian in San Francisco.

This was the latest. Maybe I uploaded this in another post?

View from the gate. This project has been re-started although none of these renderings were a part of the requirements.

@DickWolf Try Comps to Grid in JHS Powerbar. I never used it but found it this morning. Seems to work best with the component's axis set at the bottom and the center of mass.

Doesn't work when the face is inside a group

Watch this video too. It's a visual explanation around the middle of the video.

Computer died. Well apparently it was my ssd's The operating system and another data drive with Thea Render. They're going to try and save my documents data, the Quixel materials and the Thea materials and models. Luckily I have most of my cad dwgs, a lot of Sketchup and D5 models.

That said I have to reinstall and reconfigure a lot of programs including Windows 10 ugly set-up.I'm using my last computer here and I have a lot of stuff from Sketchup 2021. He said it might have been an electrical spike.

It's going to be a real pain in the ass. It's depressing. I find myself leaning over to find my new box.

One moral of the story: get a UPS and a big cloud account for back-up. Another is, "listen to your doctor."

@Rich-O-Brien It says I need a reputation of 20 to downvote.

@majid said in Another House in D5:

Looks nice,
I am interested to know what parts are done inside Sketchuo, Are IVYs part of the Sketchup model?

Thanks Majid. This is the extent of all the Sketchup work. The rest is D5 Render assets. The vines are also from D5 with their recent addition of vine procedurals. The arched brick is done first with Curviloft and I settled on using Quadface Tools for mapping.

I almost finished the proverbial doughnut tutorial by Blender Guru. He also runs poliigon for texture thats I used in SU for either Thea Render or D5 Render. Right now I mostly use it for importing models from Blenderkit which about $10/month into D5 Render. Some of them work and others don't. I imagine it's the same with Twinmotion. It's complicated. I also dabbled with Rhino which has a command entry window like Autocad. So far Blender is a sort of utility combining SU, D5 and Blender from time to time.

They're finished. $550 for diagnosis, replace the two SSD's, save whatever data can be saved, and load Windows 10 Pro. By data I mean the contents of Window's documents folder, Quxel, Thea materials, etc.

So back to the old drawing board. Gotta reload programs like Sketchup 2022 and 2024. My trusted old Autocad 2000. That's going to cost around $120 for the Longbow software to allow its use in Windows 10. Bunch of other programs.

Then there's re-configuring Windows 10 all over again to the way I had it. I have a lot of those tweaks in my saved F: drive which is a Western Digital Black. I also have all of my drawings, Sketchup models, D5 stuff on that as well.

I'll find out on Thursday. $50 to bring it back to me. I guess it's all tax deductible.

I think I sparked it by plugging in some stupid old spot light for the backyard. I killed my BIOS with that a few months ago.

Soon we'll be an ancient breed. Like the draftsmen of old.