OK, local emergencies aside, some time to look into moving this forwards and hoo nose, finish it maybe. I will have to change up the dragon and some geometry is proving to challenge rolled marbles.

Cracking results, Mr Kipling (Gus), Sir. Love 'em.

I have to agree, very nicely done, Sir.

Looks fantastic mate.

@panixia

Very sharp.......................

Difficult to say, the effects of Covid and the crash in markets plus the trump mayhem etc will shake up the way we do anything for a while to come. Energy consumption which we should be reducing, is going up, buttcoin hunting for example. Add to that the latest marketing "Emperors new clothes" and an uncertainty over what exactly it will achieve.
Why employ people when you can give the job to a few chips?
We have already gone to cheaper and cheaper workers and have several folk who just cannot make ends meet in what we used to call first world nations, such is the move to reducing the value of product produced by real people.
Maxwell render for example has had little development that can be seen and I wonder if ai is their goal, hopefully if ai is going to run the show, it will be in rendering rather than building but when it comes to moolah (Money) they (Customers) pay, they say.

Brilliant and inspiring. Thanks for posting this.

It looks as though rendering is going through a once a decade shift, so many ?AI? render sites/programs etc are coming on stream so the next basic toolset might just include a bluddy dictionary........

How many old stle render resources will still be here within the next two years? Twilight is gone now and others like Maxwell have glacial development lead times while the current ethos appears to be constant change.

Interesting times indeed, Mr Pratchett.........

Twilight render home page has a signature model somewhere used to reference render times as the only way to really rate speed is to use the same resource and juyst see how long it takes.

I may well have to have my current pc replaced so two changes in two years, somethiong of a swine to replace/update texture and light resource which you no doubt experienced too.

Something you will need to consider is the contrary nature of folk who will consider everything done by others as a quick job that has little or no value to it. I did a series of renders for a local business owner who wanted planning permission for a change of use license.

I did about twenty renders, each time parameters were changed and then I was asked to redo the whole thing and produce a document for submission. Not best pleased when I told the idiot I could not and would not do everything again in ten minutes just because "I have to submit these documents today ffs".

Sugar/Vinegar......

Actually, my biggest issue now is replacing/repairing the current pc and I have no intention of doing favours for the locals, they can make their own damn documents. Perhaps the Beavers will help?

Long shot I know.

Feeling particularly thick and wondering if there is a way to recall all my registered plugins after a complete pc failure and new disk/install.

What is left of my marbles tell me know Jose way.

Yes, I know but in my defence it IS one of THOSE months again....

Brilliant and hugely motivating. Bra and indeed vo.

It would be better with Kylie Minogue on it tho'.......

@Box
Magic, the 'boat' looks like a great place to be.

The door etc well, mind blown in a good way. Thanks for showing it here, it improves my day seeing this sort of thing.

@pixelcruncher

I believe he means this one...

Amazon.com

(www.amazon.com)

Just rebuilding the home contents bits and pieces.

Agreed, a great resource. Thanks very much for that.

@majid

You have a lot of people who believe in you, stay strong mate.

@pixelcruncher

I can confirm that the 0.9.27 update has successfully completed.

Thanks.

@Rich-O-Brien

Ta Rich. Modeled myself but cues from stuff I did more than a few years ago.

Each module docks directly to the one below apart from base. USB and HDMI ports at the back, control via the built in keyboard module and an app for mobile or a pad/notebook.

Rendered in Twilight to give a base level for Rayscaper attempts.

WiFi speakers and/or headphones for locational sounds. The vertical turntable is wall mounted via hooks at the back.

He is correct and it is, as per usual. Nice.

@pixelcruncher

It's a heck of a topic and has been for a long while. Containers are a far better emergency housing for natural disaster victims too, easily shipped wherever they are needed and consider the middle east earthquake of not long ago, better for the people than the plastic/canvas tentage so often seen.

I believe it is easy to go too small when looking at this question and the container idea, not only valid but brilliant re-use, re-purpose, recycle material. Refurbing a used container that would be scrapped, how cheap is that? Far more of a solution than other ideas and with good thinking, serviceable for years or decades.