@mike amos said:

Cheers mate, if it gets off the floor this time, I'm using carriage bolts after.

😆 😆

Thanks mate, not sure about the mirror.

That looks great! 👍

@mike amos said:

This has been resolved.

How did you fix it ?
Letting others know can be helpful if they have similar issues...

Thanks folks, I am trying to rebuild my parts and texture collections. These two sites are brilliant. Something I have found useful is fbx files, a way to get 3ds.max files into Sketchup via Blender OR the universal import plugin found here on Sketchucation. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=71951&hilit=universal+importer or in the store.

https://3dsky.org/

https://cgmood.com/

Thanks folks, she has been missed. 👍

@ntxdave said:

My next issue will be the licensing of my Fredo6 plugins. I had received a set of emails with the license info but my laptop had died and I could only access it on my iPad since my laptop had died. Just another challenge when I do get a new machine. 😞

When you have your new machine your emails should be available on it, if you set it up to receive them. Then just add the license files to an appropriate folder and access them from there.
Or download them to your ipad and email them to yourself when you need them, or pop them into an icloud location, I could go on.

Thanks mate.

I do agree but, not every image has going to be perfect and as a hobby renderer it is important not to beat yourself up too hard. Sometimes it just does not happen and you can be happy with that. If you are being paid that is something else.

Ta mate, getting a few more pointers today so movement is possible.

Thanks mate, something else I have thought about is textured glass with light elements (Coloured obs) and used as a moveable room break perhaps.

Thanks mate, like Bryan and others here I am running a very old pc and memory issues are cropping up.

Thanks folks, getting closer to the correct geometry for the centre cab. I guess number 20 is the charm.

Thanks folks, much appreciated. 👍

👍 Got to love a good asset site, and I do mate.

Thanks Bryan.

@mike amos said:

Gpu is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

So you are limited to CPU based denoising. Maybe try to find a refurbished 2070/2070ti? It will not make not a difference to your render times but the nVidia denoiser is very fast and resolves noisy images better than OpenImage

TwiLight is not GPU based for rendering so you need a double investment for CPU and GPU to see any real substantial render time gains.

See gallery for conclusion.

Thanks mate, I tried over and over to get the fountain lit up but it would not work. C'est la vie.

Hi Mike, if you dont mind me saying I think you are going about teaching yourself rendering the wrong way. You are tasking yourself with being an Architect, Landscape designer and renderer. All arch vis guys I know work from archirects plans and elevations or in the case of more arty personal projects "mood boards, or/and reference images (lots of them) At art school visual artists in just about every discipline have walls or desks full of references. Old school oil painters use a reference, being a real landscape and do pencil sketches of rock formations, that might be called a "study" it is not plagerism.
If you want to do a pool courtyard firstly identify what type of pool courtyard, minimalist, funky, period, art deco then collect lots of images you like in the genre and study them, perhaps try to do a render and try to copy the whole thing, lighting, Architecture, sky type. Then study water levels associated landscaping and plants, of just mash elements together, tilling paving, water levels pool lighting placement and effects.
I have attached some examples of a study I did a while ago, you may note that I did not copy verbatum not that there is any thing wrong with that. And an example of a mood board
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Mood board Credits to: jeremyryanjonathan (CG Architects)