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........

@pixelcruncher

I can only concur with that sentiment.

@Rich-O-Brien

Not unhappy per se, just older and a bit inflexible. Ity will take a while to get to grips with.

I cannot find anything as easily as the old forum and the appearance is just weird to my eyes, no borders to break up the page for example.

Doubtless when the old grey cell sorts it out it will be fine just a bit of a shock tbh.

@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

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

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.

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.

@Mike-Amos

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

Rebooted Sketchup, lost items returned.....

Added views.

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.

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

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

@Mike-Amos

@majid

I have to agree, a very upmarket hotel with a clientelle more accustomed to luxurious surroundings and the 'finer' things in life.

I do like the presentation effect, very sharp and effective.

A week in a place like that would cost more than I make in a year.

I decided to take a look at the Desired Space items L i am has been rendering off and on.

Not bad and simpler than I make scenes so good to test with.

Worthy of mention is that there are two lightsources here, the top one is vissible but the lower item is absent from the render even if the light emited is present (I think).

Rayscaper render.

Another in a series of automotive renders via Twilight render.

I know, VERY early but this is an Evermotion model I had to try.

This is a Rayscaper render.