What a stunning place to live! Thanks for sharing.

It's crazy to think about having a metropolis surrounded by nothing. If I look at some of the houses in your renders, it seems like a pretty affluent city. What is the economic driver in Perth? How does the cost of living compare to the rest of Australia? If I recall correctly, Sydney has an insane cost of living.

I was lucky enough to visit Sydney, the Blue Mountains, and the Gold Coast, but I hope to visit Perth one day.

Cheers,
Thomas

@tuna1957

I'm developing an affordable alternative for Twilight: https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2677-rayscaper. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've tried it yet. Even if you think it sucks, it's valuable input for me on how to improve.

Cheers,
Thomas

@Krass I like the result.

FYI, Rayscaper uses Intel's OpenImageDenoise (link). I think this is the same denoiser that Twilight Render uses in its denoise extension, so you should see comparable results.

@L-i-am Sorry to hear about your health issues! Get well soon.

@rv1974 I'm not sure if you are trolling or not... love to see some of yours.

@Gus-R I always love your renders! They demonstrate outstanding craftsmanship and skill. Don't let them grind you down.

@sashapepperspray said in Rayscaper New Releases:

@pixelcruncher Hello, I have downloaded sketchup 2025 and rayscaper doesn't work, it just says idle and doesn't render, (and do you have plans to incorporate sketchup's pbr materials into rayscaper's materials?) thanks

SketchUp 2025 is now supported in version 0.9.44 Beta. Let me know if there are any issues.

I plan to map SketchUp's PBR material to Rayscaper's PBR material in one of the upcoming releases.

Cheers,
Thomas

@L-i-am said in Genius small house:

@pixelcruncher A new container (40ft) is about $2600 USD the rest of it I have no idea. But I think the skope of works would be cartage, siteworks, Fitout, container mods, electrics, plumbing.

I find this idea of building affordable detached housing very appealing, especially since I live in a country where affordable housing for younger generations is becoming increasingly difficult.

It's probably not too pricey once you build them in bigger batches. I would install such containers on my lot if my kids want something like that.

@ntxdave PBR materials aren't supported yet in Rayscaper, but they will be soon...

The next release is coming soon. I was working on a lot of internal stuff in the engine. In the future, I plan to do more frequent releases, as they give me a tighter feedback cycle and make the process less lonely.

@nickchun Thanks for the kind words! That made my day!

Cheers,
Thomas

Yes, @Mike-Amos, I also check "transparent shadows" on Pixel cruncher's advice. But I do indeed go up to 35,000 SPP with a 2K resolution. I don't activate denoiser, and if your graphics card is sufficient, it's still fast. Probably 20 or 30 minutes of rendering time.

@Krass - I'm not sure if you've already noticed, but the denoiser is no longer destructive. You can disable/enable it in the viewport without having to restart the render. So you can actually check if the image looks good without having to go all the way to 35,000 samples/px: