@pilou said:

It is 450$ each.. 😄

Exactly!

A good, large 4K TV is over $1000. A really good one is $2000-$3000.

I wouldn’t buy a bigger TV, but I’d happily buy another VR for my girlfriend for films. Just a better experience and cheaper.

The resolution on TVs is getting to the point where you won’t even notice the difference as it increases unless you have a 100” screen (and who is going to splash $20,000 on a TV when VR gives you a cinema experience?)

@utiler said:

@richard said:

I think there is a market for these Oli! I can see these sitting on a bedside table displaying all sorts of battery powered devices!

Your mind's never too far from the gutter, Rich. 😆 😆

Dam, and here's me thinking I was totally immersed in the gutter 24/7. 😉

Did a quick comparison test.

Obviously my new PC is faster than my old imac....but just for giggles, here is the difference in Thea Render.

I can't use my old Mac GPU for Thea rendering, can't be bothered finding out why, it's incompatible.

Mac render time CPU: 140 seconds

PC render time CPU: 23 seconds (7 times quicker)

PC render time GPU: 14 seconds (10 times quicker)

PC render time CPU + GPU : 10 seconds (14 times quicker)

@Kristoff and Stefan: Temperature maxed out at 74 Degrees Celsius when rendering a longer scene. Thermal Status: OK 😄

You decide Pilou.

The HDRI is an afternoon shot so perhaps we'll go with that! 😆

This scene took less than 5 minutes to set up ad has less than 100 faces in total.

I wonder why 2048 is considered "maximum texture size" even if graphic cards may support 16k?

@unknownuser said:

Any way to force SU to go bigger

Draw edges to split faces and texture images into "tiles", with each tile displaying 2048×2048 pixels?
It's possible but not trivial to do with the Ruby API ( UVHelper.get_XYZ is missing, and workaround is slow), and for the modeler such a model would be harder to modify.

@findthong said:

Procedural and grammar based designs:
Voxel Farm - Procedural Architecture Elements

Trimble has bought Voxel Farm license. Are we going to see it being used inside SketchUp?

I know that SU2015 64bit has cooled down all rebels... 😄

VoxelFarmClients.png

I was going to ask TIG about this, but he's already done it!

Scale by volume plugin! 😄 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=493763#p493763

Cheers, cheaper to print these in stainless steel than the "whole" ceramic versions and they do the same job. 😉 Just experiments....

Like it! The dark page buttons and red on blue buttons are the only thing I find not great.

saw this a couple of weeks ago and its awesome. i just think he could've gone so much farther with it exploring different angles after putting so much time into it.

Exciting!

I'm surprised nobody has suggested a pen tablet. I used to suffer from RSI and found that by using the mouse (for scrolling mainly) with the left hand and the pen and (Wacom) tablet with the right hand the problem went away. The pen is sooo easy and natural to use.

David

Will give it a go now. Excellent work Aerilius!!

And GREAT images Pilou! 😄

I can not discuss the project, sorry. Yeah JPEG won't help me and I've already considered the ideas you mentioned, but thank you.

Thanks guys it's a nice plant to model. Ah, Bryan, now of course that would be telling 😉 I would post the hidden geometry view but it definitely won't make things any clearer. 😆

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V2 has not been released yet. V2 will have both high poly and medium poly versions of each model. Also different ages of trees.

In the meantime, check out Rich's excellent tree package. Free for Premium members.

http://sketchucation.com/shop/models/landscape/801-48-3d-trees-for-sketchup

sneak peek of more playing hehe not SU though

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A new HDRI straight out the oven. I captured a strange paved pathway in the middle of nowhere. It's always been quite a mystery to me! Again, low angle sun with warm afternoon light.

http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u564/paintswords/208-3.jpg

http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u564/paintswords/690-3.jpg

http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u564/paintswords/para-2.jpg

Shop Link: http://sketchucation.com/shop/textures/hdri/857-hdri-frosty-path

Thanks for looking.