@Mike-Amos said in My City:

@L-i-am

Looks like my version of idyllic. Fantastic to see so thanks for sharing.

Cheers Mike (My emoji thingy has stopped working}

@alsomar said in Twinmotion is free from late April:

@L-i-am Great news! In the last months, I've been doing some renders with Lumen so it's really nice to have Twinmotion for free.

Cheers @alsomar, you can output 8K and if you tile render you can go all the way to 64, crazy:

I built a model in SU about a year ago. It is an old coach house in very outback Australia. I decided to put it in a big city context. I rendered it in Twinmotion.

Cheers Mike, Just found out that PFAS was also used in cosmetics! On the positive side, my application being fast tracked. It is truly remarkable that my application needs a medical report from my hospital I was told it would take between 5 and 9 weeks to compile. When they found out it was under the fireman's scheme I received it in one and a half weeks and it was 239 pages long! The Government is paying all my medical bills including covering all my transport to and from hospital and to my doctors. I am being treated with a lot of respect. Even If I need a psychologist they will cover it uncapped. Go Australia!

Place to save your renders for free. I loose things all the time so to be safe from hard drive Failure. so I joined artestation. Basically it is your website with all your images. https://www.artstation.com/?sort_by=community&dimension=all

Cheers Mark, Bryan and Mike . Rich, your eye is phenomenal, The building was 1 third bigger than it should be. So I just scaled up the assets intuitively.......but the car was 10% too big and the people about 7% too big, so you were correct. I just spent 2 hours redoing the render with a calculator Will post the result as I made some other changes, just for a change

@pixelcruncher I think, by the look of it Scaling with the car it looks about right, plus the fact that it was modelled by an Architect I think it would be to scale. Sorry for not posting a screenshot I thought the link could be seen by anyone.

I generally am not so interested in anything other than Architecture or Landscape. But I am looking forward to seeing the progress on this project

Nice work Mike, that keyboard is only for people like us with tons of enthusiasm, and buckets patience

@Mike-Amos said in Genius small house:

@pixelcruncher

It's a heck of a topic and has been for a long while. Containers are a far better emergency housing for natural disaster victims too, easily shipped wherever they are needed and consider the middle east earthquake of not long ago, better for the people than the plastic/canvas tentage so often seen.

I believe it is easy to go too small when looking at this question and the container idea, not only valid but brilliant re-use, re-purpose, recycle material. Refurbing a used container that would be scrapped, how cheap is that? Far more of a solution than other ideas and with good thinking, serviceable for years or decades.

Cheers Mike I agree with every word of that. in this particular design is the stairs could be slide out drawers (for instance} And the beauty of the container material apart from surface rust (if left untreated) It will never rust further, any never rust through.. Insulation is an important consideration though.

I like that courtyard image a lot. I thought the couch should align for with the table though. I would suggest globe trees. What format do you require? And what render engine will you be using?

I have a work in progress that I am putting on the back burner as again the "Simple" images are the hardest work Modelled in SU and rendered it TM
This image was heavily influenced by an image I saw

@Rich-O-Brien said in Genius small house:

Wonder how these manage high winds/storms etc?

I think the sturdiness of shipping containers is where the benefits lie. They travel the oceans.

This is a quote, one of many items online about this subject "Container homes are engineered to stand their ground against strong winds. The sturdy steel construction of shipping containers provides a robust framework that can resist powerful gusts"

I know what you mean though. There is potential for wind to get under the structure. Would be a simple task to get a structural engineer to draw up some specs' These containers have A twistlock or twist lock, on each corner just attach suitable footing to these I am sure the structural integrity would be up to the task.

Hi Bryan, you can get trees in Globe plants in SKP format. I would suggest low poly or the use of skimp. At that istance the low poly Globe trees are very good

@Mike-Amos Nice work mate

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@tuna1957 said in Just moved in (Render):

@L-i-am Excellent job. Only critique is the brightness of the garage space seems to take away from the more somber overall look of the render…. Take it for what it’s worth….. Everybody sees and interprets renders differently. Still all in all a great job.

Hi Tuna, with all respect to your comment the lighting was central to the intent of the image, ying and yang, light and shade

@Mike-Amos said in Ukraine:

From a Ukrainian artist

How absolutely touching and poignant
that image is, starts me thinking of the children in Gaza also, I can only shake my head

@Gus-R epic Gus