Humanity's leadership leans towards conflict, cruelty and control. The powerful prosecute to keep power.

It's sad. The eventual 'winners' are still losers. Even though we know it we plough on regardless. Repeating same scenarios over and over.

The war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on disinformation, war on free speech, war on gender....its always the same. The world needs to demilitarize and get back to just getting along.

We live in a cloud of pessimism and distraction. Hopefully the fog clears and the next generation have more sunny days.

I have the download no worries, have the license, it will not activate which is sad because v2 will not deploy and is imho, simply more complication than improvement.

@l i am said:

Great work Mike, organic modelling is your forte 👍 👍

Simply beautiful
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I thank you, I'm here until next, no wait up, I can't leave yet..................

Sorry folks, my sense of humour got the better of me and I know marketing types are getting a bit 'radical' with their concepts.

How this will encourage folk into a paid version from the free I do not know but good luck to them.

Marketing, a shorter way of saying, Obfuscation......

The company I bought my pc from earlier this year has on site repair, however, the contractor will do nothing unless I agree to them charging me a £250 software reinstall fee. There was no mention of this when I bought the pc so they can shove that where solar radiation is not an issue.

Marketing.....

Ta mate, a few issues with geometry cropping up but that is how the cooking goes. Another F1 this coming weekend so slow progress.

you could open the SU program directory at:

and delete the sub-directories "\LayOut" and "\StyleBuilder".

Don't be surprised if glitches may happen.

Sharp. I like the offset units they would seem to be useful in numerous different purposes. 👍 👍

Thanks Steve, inspired as always, by the models you posted here. 👍

I have an Jaguar XKSS in the works that is going a bit slower than I'd hoped but getting there.

There are a few free rooms you can use which I have done then there are a bunch of paid for rooms which I have not yet done.

Ta folks. 👍

That turned out nice! 👍

I have that same HDRI and used it many times.

@rich o brien said:

2019 to 2023 you will see some notable differences.

The only remarkable ones being, from my POV, the (way) faster/more robust outliner in 2020 and the improved skp format in 2021. 😕

Ta mate, TW render still has a place and fans.

@mike amos said:

I would rwally like to get on with TM, slow getting there nut they changed the format for this year so I have to start again. Mate, if yoy have any tips I am sure they would be gratefully received. No vids for me please. just written tips are the order of the day.

You will need a "RTX" graphics card with a minimum of 8 gigs of Vram and that Vram is only good for small scenes. Yo will also need at least 16 gigs of ram.

Ta mate.

Two types of sky portal, one where you see the hdri image and a second which just directs the light values for the hdri minus the image.

I sometimes use clay as you describe, it depends on how the mood takes me. Right now my pain levels are on the high side so I tend more to the experimental side and this series is adding one elements at a time a little bit more extreme than I usually do. I have a LOT of time to kill.

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It's a bit dicey, tbh.

High level on a far off planet, or perhaps a sub teranean living space with a daulight level illumiation screen beyond the 'windows'.

Alien world, a bit Outer limits perhaps.

The source of the bavkplate is, https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/4ed46d0bf5549ba215c9e3a5c506e3e6

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