A gathering of household inhabitants.

Centre stage is the senior partner.......

The truth is, giving up artistic and creative instincts is a negative sum. We will be worse off for it. I have not tried the service I referenced but it is suggested that it respects geometry and texture of the model being rendered, no evidence of that so I cannot say.

I am reminded of the HG Wells book, The time machine. A future world where subterranean monsters hunt and devour surface dwelling simpletons. Fugly evil subterranean types and beautiful but stupid surface dwellers more like sheep after a lobotomy.

If ai can be limited to assisting with lighting suggestions and denoising maybe. As a learning tool, that too but otherwise, no thanks Whoda thunk it, a Trekkie Troglodite........

OK, not sleeping sometimes has a positive side to it, thought a bit on an old model 'rod and added a few new elements.

I am noticing that Rayscaper does not always update elements, groups/components as It should but a restart of Rayscaper sorts that right off the bat so NOT a problem.

I have mentioned Maxwell render before, used it to probably not its best but IMHO, Rayscaper beats Maxwell render hands down, NOW, let alone the future.

My big fascination which I am sure you will get, is cars. Ever since I could hold a pencil. Steve, I owe you for inspiring me to never give up with your talent and humility. Thank you, Sir.

Likewise, and to all living there right now.

Not to mention the other folk living there and hotspots, too many tin pot dick taters and I include a certain mop threatening to invade Greenland in that.

What on the planet are they drinking/smoking/sniffing/sucking on?

Don't mind if I do.

So I try.

An annexe from the bathroom...

@Rich-O-Brien

Supercallafragilistic.........

I know, sometimes when things go pear shaped, I get the urge to laugh my head off.

Last night the screen went off the charts crazy, dialogue boxes opening and closing all over the screen and I thought everything AND the kitchen sink had gone nuts.

Switched it off and went to Bedfordshire.

This AM, tried again and same thing. Thought about it and narrowed it down to an input problem, then plugged a spare keyboard (OK, old keyboard) and nada. so I vacuum cleaned the current keyboad and everything is back to normal.

Cat fur.

Miaoooooooooow.

@pixelcruncher

I can only concur with that sentiment.

No, not a James Bond or James Bondage even, film.

This image showcases the smoothing process and is a partial clay image in passing.

Another Affinity with LUT post pro.

In the mould of Colin Chapman, Bruce McLaren, Sir Frank Williams etc but the last of his kind we shall see in F1.

Always outspoken and never short of an opinion I think he polarised with F1 fans but tbh, always managed to be a fine Irishman, pundit and genuine human being.

RIP to that great paddock where the oil is always Castrol R and the smell/sounds of real F1 rather than souped up hair dryers.

Give 'em some 'stick' Eddie.

https://bellarender.com/

Apparently by the original Maxwell dev team.

Considering that win dose is once again deleting files I am at odds as to what to do next. micro snot are less use than a pre used nasal tissue.

OK, for some reason the settings are set at USE GPU but the render window states CPU and the times are slow enough.

Pardon moi, not exactly a paragon of clarity.

Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere. Just a simple compatible and the different levels of compatibility (Which I think the sub classes means) would help.

Would help me at least to know what kind of operability/standard to expect.

Well, Thought about this a bit more with the dearth of real news of the program. There is a table of compatible cards at,
https://nextlimitsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/maxwell/pages/22683398/Table+of+supported+GPUs

OK, Alfie. What does it all mean?

nvidia geforce rtx 3080, compatible or no?

This has been going on for more than a week.

Not a secret imho, Maxwell appears not to have been seriously updated for a long time now and news is impossible to get, the team are saying nothing.

I wonder why? New AI updates? Change of direction? Leaving the specialty?

Maxwell Render, is it dead?

Does anybody know the status of Maxwell Render? Has V-Ray assassinated Maxwell?

McNeel Forum (discourse.mcneel.com)

As far as I know it is an instagram page referencing Sketchup solid model tools.

I was at one stage but not for a while, events took precedence which is how life goes but maybe when stuff settles down I might go again.
That is a great project and looks like it took a lot of doing.

Very nicely done, Sir.

Hoping to get there, get the feeling this needs the big screen.