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.

Mind warping stuff there.

@gus r said: Dave, The Nvidia Texture Tools has a standalone which I'm using which you can get here. I only use a couple of features with that to create normal maps. This looks interesting. Thanks!

@gus r said: OK. This took me 5 minutes from opening Plasticity. If you're half thinking of purchasing it now is a good time because when 1.3 drops its increases https://youtu.be/xOftfx05l14 I have it and love it. 1.3 with Blender Bridge is insane looking

@prairiestatefoamer said: nwhs Archive I got the truck plans here. The Flexicoil trucks. I used photos and other sources to update those. https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=221319 The other place was the Canadian Pacific Historical Association. Here's the search page. You have to register. https://www.cptracks.ca/search.asp I found a lot of other plans there for cab, frames, etc. You can search for SD-45 or SD-40 (modify those). Flickr is a good source too for details. Other stuff here too. https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Locomotive-Details [image: 1778382363787-1769044356622-resized.jpg]

For a mark one adjustment, very sharp.

Very sharp builds/renders.

Top notch designs and renders.

Nice!

Thanks. D5 Render is pretty quick but there are some features it needs especially in materials since there is no naming of the textures involved and it's impossible to find in the D5 directory. They have an automated PBR function which works very well and the library is extensive. Any modifications to there materials though is difficult since you really don't know where to begin with their textures. I amassed a large library of my own with materials and landscape elements which far exceeds my productivity in architectural renderings.

@rich o brien said: Youtuber 'influencer' house? Could be I suppose. I'm just making it up on the fly for practice and learning.

Rich, It slows down rendering times and when you add a displacement map it will render slower. It wasn't terribly slow for these and I only did 100 passes with a Presto setting in Thea Render. Blender does have a lot of these features "out of the box" if not with a plug-in or Grasshopper. I got sidetracked late this spring when I was finally getting around to learn Blender using the well known doughnut tutorial by Blender Guru. I even got a small Inspiroy tablet for the brushes. Blender can seem a daunting at first given all the options that are available but of course that requires more focus on my part. Sketchup still seems a better option for straight ahead architectural work for now. That and my 23 year old Autocad ADT 3.3 that I'm still using for the bulk of my freelance work. Anything organic though and Blender would be the better option. Glad you like the shag carpet. Many a tiny screw or spring were lost in those even into the 1980s.

This doesn't belong in the Bug Reeporting category.

Top notch!

@dave r said: @khai said: ... all that to me is junk.... As a hobbyist using SketchUp 2017 Make (according to your forum profile), the change in the subscription price has no impact on you anyway. This is what I do. I have a dedicated computer for Sketchup Make 2017 because I've gotten so handy with it that I would hate to part with it. I get it that software maintenance is expensive, and an aging product like Sketchup is likely to fall down the priorities list for a company like Trimble. I looked at their financials page (linked on their website) https://investor.trimble.com/static-files/d848716e-e452-4d46-9606-ac7163a309c7. I'm not an expert, but it looks like they are raking in ~1.5B per quarter after expenses. But yes, the price they are asking for an updated version of Sketchup is too much for my little pocketses. If I was a bazillionnaire, I would buy Sketchup and open source it. I can only dream tho...

Flowscape is worth a look too. https://pixelforest.itch.io/flowscape I have not looked into this fully yet so exporting grass etc, no idea.

I would swear that's a photo!