Turned out perfect!

Universal importer will do the job, I find the file reduction system too clunky but the actual importer aspect does a fair job so far mate. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=71951&hilit=universal+importer

@gus r said: The red one is right here from 3D Warehouse: Cairo Metro -Line 1 I changed the material to red. The trick to finding a lot of models in 3D Warehouse is to search a keyword + "3DWarehouse" in Google images. 3DWarehouse's search engine is practically useless. And in this case I translated "train" to Chinese which is 火车. You can use other languages to expand your search too which will result in finding more models sometimes. Thanks Gus. I never or hardly ever search using 3D whorehouse ans use your method, but I missed this one perhaps because of the original colours

Nice lighting. The guy is obviously a criminal with his blatant disregard for the grass.

@gfxs said: Looks like it only works "under Windows" Nice

No probs, I downloaded from your link worked fine this time

Thanks Gus and Rich. I contacted sketchup texture club about this texture. Within 12 hours they generously came up with all the required maps and emailed them to me I highly recommend this site and have been using them for years. Definitely bang for buck with an enormous range of high quality PBR texures. Great support and they have free stuff as well. And if you want the pror Large PBR materials it is 14 USD per year https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/ [image: YgnY_Screenshot2023-08-05085243.png]

Thank you

The recovered location is where you find .SKP copies of a model if SketchUp crashes, otherwise they are deleted as that model is closed. You need to have the AutoSave option set in Preferences for this to happen. The backup files are suffixed .SKB and are always saved with the model itself, again you need to have the backup option set in Preferences. You change the .SKB suffix into .SKP for SketchUp to be able to open it. A backup file is always one version behind the current model, and it is made whenever you save your model. There are no .BAK files in SketchUp. On a MAC the equivalent of a PC's .SKB is suffixed ~.SKP as the previous version of the model file...

Cheers guys, here is a subtle thing that I have tried before on old buildings. The nicks and dents take a while but it gets rid of straight lines and once the material with normal maps it adds authenticity. [image: k7kW_Dents.jpg]

Thanks Rich, yes this is what I was looking for https://architextures.org/

Thanks Rich will try that.

@alvis said: https://sketchucation.com/shop/models/furniture/353-classic-bentwood-chair I had a look at those chairs, they look great I will buy and good value at $8, Is that for one or all four? Alsi sis there a matching table?

You could also use the trial of Revit and export obj, fbx or ifc from there.

here took somebody the same scene and rendered it in twinmotion: https://youtu.be/hMuXfcG1HLo https://youtu.be/hMuXfcG1HLo

Thank you

Thanks for that Rich

I'm currently using both Raylectron and D5. Both have their strengths. I have not tried many other render programs due to price. I am currently exploring Rich's process of SU to Blender. Blender comes with two render choices built in. Cycles and EV. I cannot comment on their capability as I am still learning blender. I've recently seen amazing, stunning renders, from TM, both here and on the Facebook group, that even I cannot tell from a photo. But I've also seen complaints such as yours and other different problems with TM as well. I do see that all render companies continually making improvement to their output. Looks like an arms race is going on right now.