View - Face Style - Photoreal Materials.

As it say's, not tried the photoreal setting before so thought, "What might this do for Rayscaper?

Up to you to see what difference you can. The model is a redo of an oldie.

It will be cracking.

The spooks are gone... ? What the Freaky Friday etc.

Better call Scummy and Mouldy.

Next.

@pixelcruncher

Not much, pretty sure they are repeats of the headlight glass/lens which comes out ok set as glass. Still some details to adjust and perhaps depict the fresnell effect on the lens but not much.
I cannot select the spooks either as I cannot see them no matter what I adjust in the drop down VIEW menu.

Ta folks, rather weird artifacts which I cannot see in the model, the discs are not present in the model, UFO's?

I agree with t'others, really good to see these.

Giving the headlights a little attention.

Looking to my own use, a combination of Sketchup and Blender looks to be the ideal way forwards. I just have to get through those first steps to grips with it. Visually, these programs just overwhelm me at the moment which is why I tend to reduce clutter on the screen and possibly why I cannot get on with video tut's.

Most of the video tut's I have tried to watch have the 'teacher' meandering around verbally, changing tac and all the while the cursor is 'waved' all over the screen.

A fantastic piece Majid, as ever. Perspective makes a huge impact as I am learning with renders.

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.

You got that far, extra cookie score +20.

Glorious mate, the Vatican need to hire you so they can get in touch with younger folk, well, younger than about 80 yo which is what seems to be their demographic these days.

@tuna1957

Ta mate. Getting closer. First iteration studio.

The renders will improve when I get to a proper studio setup.

Moving on. I have to say that Sketchup 2026 has been a HUGE difference for me.

I cannot understate how much improvement there has been with this build.

My thanks to the team, you made a complete turnaround here.

Just so you know Mr Cruncher, Sir.

When you get the chance to get away from the rat race, ANY weekend is a good time to do so. You Sir, are worth it. In a very poor paraphrasing of the advertisement.

I never doubted you would. My first thought was the Diffusion update seeing as that was the last thing to happen prior to the issue presenting.

Conflict with Diffusion?