yes, very good! The carpet in the front is cool, is that a model or a trick from the renderer you used?

actually it was supposed to be Clark Griswold's car from the movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" without which (meaning the movie) Christmas is unthinkable for us too
One of the first scenes describes the procurement of a christmas tree worthy of the Griswold's festival ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozksR8QLWzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKpKBzd7jg

...hi, I wish you all a wonderful advent and christmas season 2022
[SkUp Make 2017 / Enscape / Photoshop / the car model is taken from the 3D warehouse and slightly modified to fit a movie template a bit better ]

...großartig und schön Eric Lay and Respect

...wunderbar!

@didier bur said:

@HornOxx:
A RBS file is an encrypted Ruby file which behaves just like a RB file...

Thanks Didier Bur for your guidance and the help out of my own dullness and again for your nice and well running tool

Thanks Didier Bur for making and sharing this so nice plugin
And thanks Rich for the how to install it...

Only, I dont get it istalled or even to run somehow and I am seeing a rbs-file for the first time. Could someone please show me how to proceed here?

@baz said:

...Hope this helps someone get out of trouble until a proper fix is found...

thank you BAZ - yes helpful because in the meantime I also experience this issue from time to time

what a beautiful "snapshot" this is! - precisely because of its scenic "randomness"...

...a masterpiece! großartig

@boofredlay said:

...That can go in the second edition of the D'oh book for me...

wunderbar! (for me too)

prima!

...and by the way - this is a nice sketch

@l i am said:

... but I aim for photorealism...

either way - A great topic and I look forward to follow the development...

...Hi Liam - given this really visual quality of this house, it could also be an option to aim less for a perfect rendering result (which, as we all know, often becomes an endless task) but more for a much more graphic solution? A rendering probably won't be that much better just because you invest time and sweat in superfluous banalities like a sofa, a ceiling lamp and a dog in the garden?
In my view, the quality worth emphasising here lies in the wonderful geometry, the successful combination of volumes, lines and proportions.
So how about an approach consisting of a fairly simple not too photorealistic render image, combined with SkUp graphic output, maybe any clay render + hiddenline, perhaps even sketchy with overdrawn lines + a striking graphic background etc.?

just thoughts - a beautiful work in any case

(I know - even with such an graphic approach one can burn too much time and sweat but it's much more fun than waiting to see if any renderer calculates a shadow a nuance lighter or darker here or there)

...yes absolutely! - and really worth the appreciation through your exercise here

@l i am said:

@hornoxx said:

:thumb: ja, a really a beautiful house and good view therefore!
(completely insignificant but nevertheless - this garage descent seems very ambitious to me )

Cheers Hornoxx, love your choice of "ambitious" I had a giggle

even I myself had to grin when I wrote this sentence - I had my own extraordinarily coarse motor handling with gas and clutch in mind, with the inevitable negative effects for the garage door

ja, a really a beautiful house and good view therefore!
(completely insignificant but nevertheless - this garage descent seems very ambitious to me )

... next so many others, also Render[IN] could be a plugin option for you as it has not an annual subscription model. Certainly not the fastest tool in terms of the rendering process itself, but can be grasped in a few minutes if you don't want to get lost in any too complex render software.
https://renderin.com/en/

Hi
these are probably faster to model yourself than to search, download and modify them - however, for example in the 3D Warehouse you will find a wide range of window shutters...
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?q=window shutters&searchTab=model