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

@rich o brien said: What is it you want the extra power for? Rendering? How would you cool it? Will your PSU be capable of running dual GPUs? I would favour a single 3000 series over dual 1080s. RTX and Ampere architecture is fast compared to Turing. I moved from 970 series and 2070 series 2 years ago and the difference was massive in terms of rendering speeds. The newer 3000 series cards are beasts compared to 2000 series cards. Userbenchmarks has the 3060 TI as the best ROI https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/ I'm no GPU nerd though. But dual 1080s for me would mean more headaches in terms of power consumption and heat management. Thanks Rich, and all good points. Botom line is I would want to render with twinmotion to get a bit of a buffer. But just found out that Twinmotion would not support rwin GPU's anyway. So I will hold out until the technology matures and crypto minning is less profitable if it ever does

Excellent!

It just comes with a subscription of Vray.

@tuna1957 said: Sorry L I am , I hit the stupid “thumbs down” by mistake on your last post. I hate these damn touch screens . Back to the point… its a wonderful image. What I wonder about on these top of the line images is just how much post pro they put into them. Would love to see a “straight” out of the render engine and then the final image after post work. Fair point mate, I requested an SU shot and a pre post production render of the author on the facebook page but he did not seem willing to do so. No reply The workflow was quoted as "Workflow: SketchUp, Twinmotion 2022.1 (Skydome & PT on) Post-processing: Lightroom. This might be worth a watch (Lighroom for 3D renders) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdnVpuhnRWw Really good post production photoshop vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whm0kDw7lus

Here is an image off the corrugated steel roof. It did my head in [image: EEY7_Metalroofcor.jpg]

Hi pbacot. It is a real house already built only 10 months ago I have a pic of it and got hold of the floorplan and everything is correct to scale. Yes it has "borrowed" from West Australian Victorian Architecture. [i]"I don't understand the comments on the stone pillars. Pretty easy to adjust what texture is showing, to avoid the repeat (but the components for the faces have to be unique from each other)."[/i] That is not true with twinmotion, if you move the texture they all move in unison. Unless you know a way. Only way I know is to rename them individually

@solo said: Look at the scene, decide on a season, you have spring leaves on one tree and fall leaves on the floor, Who has lights on in the daytime? Otherwise, you are definitely improving with every render. Hi Solo, thanks, I know what you mean about the leaves but I am in Western Australia. We have no native deciduous Trees at all. It is for the local market and we have trees that loose leaves all year round, especially when the weather starts getting very hot in spring and early summer in a Mediterranean climate. As far as the interior lights, I am trying to (and possibly failing) to emulate the "golden hour" that is a photo taken at dusk and slightly over exposed using both artificial and natural light together (The golden hour is a window of about 15mins actually) This is pretty much standard for my locality and the interior lights were on purpose. If you google "western Australian project home renders" you will see what I am trying to do. Not nailed it yet though.........but I eventually will

Gut!

That looks interesting. I have a few things to get further with but I reckon I'll have a go. Thanks for posting this, it will grease the cogs for a while.

@l i am said: @ntxdave said: How about designing a modernized workshop for Santa and his team. Ho Ho Ho! ….a room of 3d printers and robotics with very geeky very clever high tech Elves soldering, programming etc. Perhaps the presents are now, in this age, delivered by a space time delivery…. Think you are right on. That send visions dancing through you head!

Nice to know Rich, cheers