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.

Don't mind if I do.

So I try.

An annexe from the bathroom...

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.

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.

@pixelcruncher

Gradually altering settings. A few more components/groups have been adjusted for clarity.

Done good, Sir. Best news I have heard this week.

Onwards and upwardly mobile......

Tried a Rayscaper render, selected GPU, got this is around 4m 45s. No, I cannot see how the graphics card can do this. Chillblast are, quiet and not returning calls.

@Rich-O-Brien

Supercallafragilistic.........

Rebooted Sketchup, lost items returned.....

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.

Tuna, I think, mentioned a garage WIP, well it got me to thinking about an old Austin 7/BMW 3/15 dixie model I have and decided to rebody it in the same vein as the best garage racers of the time.

Things WILL change, geometry for sure to clean it up and get closer to a class A body.

@Mike-Amos

More changes to light and emiter range from target. I also ran this through the Affinity machine. Better imho.

OH well, drawing board. Only thing left I can think of is a ghost componant.

Added views.

Well, the layout is definitely derivative.

I find that my method of modelling creates a few issues with Rayscaper render so I shall have to look into new mthods with each floor level a group and lights outside of these.

There are a number of artifacts which come and go to an extent. The tops of the walls and the floor texture have a dark weblike appearance which I suspect has to do with light levels.

Otherwise a case of moving on a little by little, test and redo.

From the window above the kitchen units, to the patio doors just out of shot to the right, is nine feet. The widest part of thgis units is sixteen feet six inches with stairs two fee wide.

Eight feet ceilings open up the room a bit but not much and render views are a little limited. I feel the elevated viewpoint looking down gives the best option but that is my opinion.

Carried on from my Raysacper thread

Going back to motors again, this is the latest Kitbash from older components/models.

Essentially a clay render for fit.

@Mike-Amos