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.

Thanks as usual Box I scaled it up by a factor of 10, worked like a charm

@box said: And keep in mind that you should make some 'cuts' through the tree. In other words create gaps in the outer edge of the tree, break it into several 'trees' so that you don't have one continuous border edge that ends up with a huge number of segments. When I first looked at it the whole thing contained over 330,000 segments. It would be highly likely that the border edge would contain more than 10,000 and 10,000 is a finite limit. Sketchup will shutdown without a bugsplat if you attempt to manipulate a continuous edge of over 10,000. This was only an experiment. I found some images from "clean png" site and conerted it to a DXF using https://convertio.co/png-dxf/, I thought that particular png was extremely complex but now I will look for a less complex subject for my experiment. I think this method of converting a raster image into a DXF and then importing into SU has some promise though.

Check faces are correctly orientated in SketchUp and apply material in SketchUp to it. Or Give the face a color as a marker that you can then change in TM. Face's must be oriented the right way.

Thanks Box

@bryan k said: I would have never noticed until you fixed it. Great job! Thanks Bryan I find that I get hypercritical of my work as I gain competance this was a challange and a half experimenting with the glass. but worth it, I think

I tried many maps, was not convincing though. I used this one from "filter forge" worked well. It was designed for mirrors. [image: ZSYy_Mirror.jpg]

@marked001 said: definitely like the second image better..think the darker truck helped balance it out a bit. nice work. Thanks Markd, yes the darker colour works better for the compostion, but the main thing was overcomming the over exposure in that area by filtering the light with trees. Such a simple fix but was not obvious at the time

Second last test render. Getting the graffiti to work with the brick normals map was a big learning curve for me. I think one more tweak. Not the image I was aiming at but I think it works. Just a screen shot to fit for sketchucation resolution/image size. [image: L37S_Skpsmall.jpg]