Yes mate, found that out earlier. Sometimes we are the pigeon and other times, the statue.

Got it thank you

@mike amos said: In my humble opinion, that, is a very fine render mate. You are too kind Mike, thank you

Many render engines will ignore back faces, this causes holes in your renders. 3d printers use the face orientation to know what is air and what is print media. I cannot think of a reason why having back faces painted and facing out, would be beneficial. Some times it can be useful to paint back faces because you want the inner space to be a colour or hide 'gaps' that can appear when edges are turned off, and transparent materials can be useful on back faces on occasion.

Roughness maps to breakup your reflections and Fresnel everywhere it should occur. I'm more a fan of your output than the Adobe user's output. So beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. Irregularity is what pushes a render toward realism. Chromatic aberration and similar camera effects tend to fool the eye more so than colour correction. It's funny that modern day movies shot on 8k RED cameras are super clean and accurate then in post production they add the Kodak LUT to get that 'movie' look we all like. But look up free LUT files and try them out. The colour correction they apply is always really good.

you have now free Online! https://www.vectorpea.com/ (illustrator like)

Looks great!

The Bahnschrift font family seems to have some issues. Adobe and Microsoft both seem to have problems with it, too. First two examples I found: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/bahnschrift-font-major-issues/b727f286-3bc8-4656-a1fa-9fee6119f5ec https://office-watch.com/2021/whats-so-special-about-the-bahnschrift-font/#:~:text=What's%20the%20problem%20with%20Bahnschrift,aren't%20always%20very%20nice.

Always check the Outliner after import. Sometimes models can import and not be at world origin or scaled so large/small they sit outside the scope of the clipping plane.

Correction, the original artist responsible for this concept was Yves Lappert

Cheers Rich, I think I will take my computer in for a reinstall tomorrow. Something is very wrong and unpredictable, must be a fundamental problem. Just for instance everything I have ever unzipped is now zipped.

@mike amos said: I had previously installed as admin What exactly does that mean? You signed into Windows as the administrator? Or did you right click on the installer and choose Run as administrator from the Context menu? @mike amos said: Despite this pluigin being installed and looking at View - Toolbars, nada. Does the Extension Manager show it is installed? Did you try restarting SketchUp after installing it? @mike amos said: I might give it another go but frankly I went through the whole procedure five times and nada. There has to be something wrong in the way you installed SketchUp 2022 or it would have worked. I guess it's all moot though since you've decided to stick with 2021. Best.

Don't copy your extensions from an older installation of SketchUp unless you enjoy chasing loading errors. Some extensions require the proper installation method, some need to be updated to run in the new SketchUp version. Best to install them fresh from their sources. If you used the Sketchucation Extension Store tool to install extensions from here, install it first. Open it up and sign in. Then click on the gear icon at the top and go to Bundles. You can install the latest versions of the extensions in your bundle automatically without having to search for them all.

Many things were supposed to go the way of the Dodo, like traveling to an office to work. Paper book sales have been declared dying for several decades now and the sales of paper books goes up. Having a computer 'entity' designing and refining is OK but a human mind will still be able to pull off stunning and unique designs that make others say 'wow'. I hope this remains. I loved the pads and communicators from Star Trek but a paper book is where it remains for me. Shocked myself realising that.

@mike amos said: Your renders are among those I look for inspiration. They rock, seriously. Thanks mate. I appreciate your kind words Mike, thanks

@box said: Select the arc tool, type the number you want and hit enter. This will stay as the default until you change it or start a new instance of sketchup. So easy, thanks

cheers guys Elmer I see your interests lie in 3D and tropical islands. Twinmotion would be perfect for you as that organic stuff is so easy in that program. But be aware that I have 32 gigs of RAM and 8 gigs of RTX VRAM and I still make my graphics card smoke

@mike amos said: The business mate, worth a is salary bonus imho. Thanks very much Mike It seems those skills are not fully appreciated by the management of my present job as a car parking attendant