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?

Done, I thank you Sir.

Running the .69 build. EVERY new model loaded will require the steps above. right click on the render window on the task bar and select maximise. When this is done once per new model, session, each new start of Rayscaper will occur as per normal.

OK, perhaps not how things "Should be done" but, I would extrude arcs and lines. Breaking up the line to create a like for like number of facets as the arc I was extruding with. This has worked pretty well for a long time but, now, no more than two facets from a line.

Getting a bit tiresome where things change with no notice.

I got best results with extrusion tools when used with this setup for lines/arcs.

OK, hover the cursor over the sketchup icon on the task bar, right click on the Rayscaper window and maximise. The render window will not open elsewise.

Can someone post the .9.6.4 build please, da nada here.

Need a revert version button.

Going cold turkey, sketchup is completely uninstalled for a while.

@pixelcruncher

Oh well, that lasted a long time did it not.

I cannot run Rayscaper, it is installed but, when I start the app the !render! window will not open.

All this happened post a diffusion update.

Report below.

Extension Errors Report
SketchUp: 24.0.594
OS: Windows 11
Ruby: 3.2.2

Extension: SketchUp Diffusion (1.2025.09.28)
Error: LoadError (127: The specified procedure could not be found. - C:/Users/mike1/AppData/Local/Temp/SketchUpDiffusion.so)
<internal:C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in require' <internal:C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in require'
c:/users/mike1/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/su_diffusion/su_loader.rbe:28:in <module:SketchUpDiffusion>' c:/users/mike1/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2024/sketchup/plugins/su_diffusion/su_loader.rbe:1:in <main>'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in eval' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in require'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in load' C:/Users/mike1/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/SketchUp/Plugins/su_diffusion.rb:21:in register_extension'
C:/Users/mike1/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/SketchUp/Plugins/su_diffusion.rb:21:in <module:SketchUpDiffusion>' C:/Users/mike1/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/SketchUp/Plugins/su_diffusion.rb:5:in <top (required)>'