Top notch!

@Gus-R In school, we used to do similar with cut up baked bean tins and styrene (I think) washers. Did the job well enough. The washers are pretty durable and come in lots of sizes.

Superb mate! I dont know exactly when you last used TM but it is now free and the interface has completely changed and much easier to navigate

@Gus-R Jaw dropping stuff, magic. Smiling like a loon again.

Since June. He announced in late April that he was making it commercial.

Excellent work as always!

@Gus-R Thank you for sharing, this is too informative

Top notch!

Thanks guys. Rich, that's a D5 render.

Looks fine to me. Only post processing was some cloning for the foam along the left side.

These are really awesome..thanks for sharing.

Thanks Mike. Change of mood here with all white building. Easily changed of course. Fits the tropics. Might look like a Florida condo. The pic with the horizontal slats is for bird impact prevention. [image: IsLl_D5_Image_20240113_172856.jpg] [image: FJ5I_D5_Scene-68_20240113_175844.jpg] [image: ndGb_D5_Scene-77_20240113_180201.jpg] [image: JY7M_D5_Scene-85_20240113_175654.jpg] [image: jkTc_D5_Scene-129_20240113_17550.jpg] [image: 9XWJ_D5_Scene-122_20240113_18034.jpg] [image: 63SN_D5_Scene-130_20240113_18053.jpg]

It is early doors yet, respecting geometry is low on the agenda but obviously can be improved. I had a model rendered where a barbecue was turned into a window/door and another where it was turned into a light source. Early doors though and it does have promise. Question I have is where it leaves dedicated render programs. For me, I would rather have full control over atributes and light elements but I can see it (Diffusion) being very popular.

That night scene is perfect!

Somehow I missed this WIP. Top notch!

Thanks folks. Maybe I could get more work if I moved to Vietnam. About 40 years ago, most of the architectural renderings were either water color or colored pencil. I was trying to learn colored pencil techniques to that end but whatever illustrative presentation were just elevations on mylar and technical pens. The rest of my work was drafting. From land surveys, to civil engineering to structural engineering. Planning and at an architect's office which was 2D drafting. Started doing non-photo real rendering around the mid 2000s and I was charging $500 per rendering. Of course I spent far more billable time than $500 with all the details. I needed the work and the experience or practice. Most of my work remains drafting. I starting doing more photo-real rendering using Kerkythea. I finally got Thea Render only a few years ago. I tried V-Ray but it kept crashing on me. D5 Render is really good for doing fast work. I like setting things up with Thea now and rendering in D5. It's difficult to get rendering work. Last week someone wanted a rendering. For $350. I would have done it for $600 since I already did the model for the architect. I've gotten anywhere from $500 to $2,500 (USD) for architectural renderings. At one point I really needed work and did some non-photo real for container homes. For a mere $100. I can't think of any way to stand out to get rendering work. If it's not outsourcing it seem like real estate investors aren't even interested in renderings anymore. Architectural firms are just using Revit generated renderings which for the most part look amateurish.

Thanks all. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.

Very sharp mate.

And that says it all TBoy.

@l i am said: At the risk of stating the obvious, group the model and rotate it on the appropriate axis 180 deg Did that. The match photo model worked out great. Didn't notice it was upside down until I saw the ground shadow hovering over the house. The first clue should have been when I was pulling some gutters with Profile Builder and the gutter was extruding upside down.