Offline
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
@Rich-O-Brien Get off my lawn!
The right side bar's text is kind of small for my aging eyes. Can you make the font bigger?
We'll be tweaking as we go so expect improvements. As you can imagine migrating was a big challenge. Keeping historical stuff was important.
So poke around for a bit before piling on the requests
OK. This just happened too: 
Decided to play with a stream topo using Vertex Tools and came up with a composition to experiment with in D5 with various elements.
@TIG It was stuck with my old computer name. I had to get two new ssd's and a new Windows 10 Pro install. I reinstalled SU and everything was almost still there and everything was working fine. I re-associated the directories except for the templates which was stuck with the old name which was no longer present. That meant I kept getting a warning on SU start-up. So I created a dummy user directory with the old name and SU...templates and it took.
All systems go. Ready for Autocad.
Surprised at how much was saved.
@Rich-O-Brien Get off my lawn!
The right side bar's text is kind of small for my aging eyes. Can you make the font bigger?
Some recent exterior renderings using D5 2.8. Won't be a paying job because of outsourcing. Nothing fancy in the modeling. Using D5's new scatter feature. Windows and doors are Flex Tools except for the front door which I did a few years ago.
@Rich-O-Brien said in New Sketchup 2025 glimpse.:
@nlipovac Its that time of year for major update, late q4 or early q1, so showcasing to paying attendees would be a good strat
Rich,
Everyone could use a good Stratocaster. 
I've been using a Logitech K350 for years now. Still have a new one on backup. Mouse is Logitech Performance MX which I clean every so often. I still have a Logitech MX Master 3 in a box. Not too crazy about it but overall it's OK. I also have a Corsair K100 RGB Optical-Mechanical Gaming Keyboard which is way to jittery and sensitive. Happiest with the K350 and Performance MX combo.
Biggest problem has been dropping liquids on the keyboard once a year. Have to be careful with that. I have gotten replacement feet for the Performance MX mouse if I've opened it up a lot to clean. Have to make sure I'm stocked. I still have a bunch of Allsop "Raindrop" x-large mouse pads which they discontinued. Drives me nuts when they discontinue the good stuff.
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
@Gus-R you see who downvoted?
No. All I get is that message in the screenshot.
@Rich-O-Brien I can soften the shadows but it winds up muddling the foreground tree shadows on the porch walk and sidewalk. If I increase the softening it completely wipes out and tree form. This is D5 Render and not Twinmotion.
Architectural visualization went from mid 20th century depictions utilizing pencil on paper; pencil and watercolor; colored pencil; watercolors; etc. Many of which depicted shadows with hard lines.
Today there's an expectation of total realism and a sort of uniformity in rendering styles. Many would argue that as realism in architectural visualization increased such as photo real renderings, the quality or beauty in architecture has declined. The same is true with music and automation and re-processing in music studios.
Whether it's rendering or drafting, much of architecture involves a lot of tedium.
Another update!
Added/created: window wipers; 27 point connectors in front (the red and blue plug covers); window wind screens; window shade (still working on that); new decals in front of hood; fuel cap texture; manufacturer plate; tool box on side finished; door latches at 600 volt access panel; weathering; etc.
Also changed the gray to a lighter gray. I have to add the walk in front with chain and latch; some hoses and a valve for air brakes; etc. Train signal by others and the two figures are from D5 Render. Otherwise I slogged through almost every single piece of this model.
I tried to find reference drawings for most of it including blue prints for the trucks which have to be upgraded to a later model. Some things like the window shade apparatus and the tool box latch I had to do my best guess at the design using some fuzzy images.
@L-i-am I added some numbers earlier. I can't make this all add up after the loss of freelance work. Moving, place to live, minus several other monthly payments including I'd need to pay around $150/month for storage.
@Rich-O-Brien said in Oooops:
I get lots of 'notifications' but they never load.
Teething issues while we dial in setting. Can you downvote this please?
Worked that time. 
@L-i-am Thanks guys! I was thinking about motion blur. D5 doesn't have such an option. I tried with Photoshop but it would probably take some work like with masking. I used to do that with old Flight Simulator screen shots. The effects are particals straight out of the box. You have to turn on the dynamic effect under display for them to be visible. You can turn it off after that since the clouds will move along with it and you might not like whatever clouds show up in the background.
@Gus-R More updates. Made that chain. Ended up using Profile Builder since Tax Engineering wasn't working out for me. I'm sure it's much easier in Blender but I don't see the point in going that route. Also some snow and a cliff in the background. I have to make those gladhand connectors and hoses for the air brakes in front as well as the manual brake wheel in the right rear of the locomotive.
Did you know the EMD SD-45 weighs 368,000 pounds? Like most freight locomotives the underframe is massive which I learned from modeling it. Gladhand connectors are like what you see in trucks connecting the air to the trailer.
@Rich-O-Brien said in NEW Forum Software Issues:
@Gus-R said in NEW Forum Software Issues:
@gullfo Rich, when can we start filling up the suggestion box? I only have two things.
Be gentle Gus. Its been a huge undertaking to get the old content into this newer system.
I'd love if users just poked around for a few days to see how it works and feels.
But if you see or experience a genuine system error or unusable feature let us know.
You can put them here as I subbed to this thread
Everything is working fine but the only changes I would like to see is a dark mode and larger text/font on the right side bar. It's too small for my vision. Larger font there would be more important than a dark mode. Although the stark white is kind of hard on the eyes too.
@Mike-Amos Jason Bourne is living there for at most a day.
Other than maybe adding a few more minor details I'm close to done short of updating the truck. This is my first try more or less of adding weathering using decals and even picked up some nice image to use for decals over at Quixel Bridge.
@L-i-am Yeah. Nothing fancy. Took me a couple of hours. Getting ready to go wherever I go at the end of June. Need the money. I'll probably use this to get a year's subscription for SU. I went on the monthly plan and now they're going to start charging $100/month for that.
