Wishing everyone from members to visitors a very Merry Christmas and prosperous new year

Little festive render to up the mood!

Some Rayscaper tests....

I love the Polyhaven integration to just drag drop HDRIs to switch up the lighting.

@L-i-am

Would be nice if AI tackled real world problems rather than disrupting markets that create employment.

SUbD fun with furniture

Rendered in Rayscaper

Having some fun with Rayscaper

The guys over at Lightbeans had added Lightbeans to our ExtensionStore and site.

Lightbeans 3D Texture Library | SketchUcation

3D SketchUp Community for Design and Engineering Professionals.

(sketchucation.com)

I've been using there site for a few months and the textures are high quality. If you are doing ArchViz and need access to high quality render ready building products this is a must have!

Plus it's free! They also drop new materials every week and its all accessible directly in SketchUp.

Check it out if you're interested....

From this separate thread I ended have some play time with texturing...

Modelled using SUbD, UV unwrapped with WrapR and a quick render in Rayscaper

@pixelcruncher is hard at work crushing bugs and adding quality of life stuff for the next release....

Above was 5000 samples at 2k resolution on a 4080 card with no denoising in 14.5mins

Below was 500 samples at 2k resolution on a 4080 card with denoising in 1.5mins

I've never seen or tasted Twinkies and for obvious reasons they couldn't have a brand name in the game.

Nor do I know what this even does in the game. But it was a fun challenge. The texture did all the work.

If you open the Ruby Console while invoking the tool it might provide clues.

Also, sharing if you are Windows/Mac.

I presume you are using recent updated versions of both Libfredo and FredoScale?

I can invoke the TAB panel without issue on SU2026 with no errors in Ruby Console.

@RASKL

Please run the Window > Libfredo Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support menu command in SketchUp and copy/paste the output into your reply.

The Soften Edges Panel will help you control the surface normals of a selected surface based on an angle threshold.

Always a joy to see this stuff. So detailed

@majid said in Ain't Sketchup to rhyme with the trends?:

modeling logic behind the beloved SketchUp is too old-school

Or the user has outgrown the the abilities of the application.

Every commercial app has a threshold of what it can do. It is targeted to its market/audience.

On the opposite side if you look at Blender. Because of it's open source nature and community contributions its flourishes naturally in directions steered more organically.

SketchUp, to me, is a form of transportation to help me get to a destination. Along the way I might use various modes of transport to get where I'm going.

It is easy get frustrated because it lacks certain features. But a bloated app can also lead to frustration when trying to find features hidden behind nested menu or panels.

I would love if SketchUp was more open regarding Roadmaps and planned features. Rather than this current approach. But there's no perfect app or approach.

@LEADERFIT3D

The advice here: https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1617255

Delete this:

Restart SketchUp

I lost the will to live after 20s listening to that....

@Tramhuong Do you have a problem ?

You are quoting another user's problem.

If you are referring to a license for extensions we sell. Then yes you can.

Licenses have a number of seats, usually 3, so you can activate on up to 3 devices at a time.

You can manage seats at https://sketchucation.com/webshop/my-licences.php

This looks more like an issue with Libfredo and FredoGhost than our licensing system.

Maybe ping Fredo on his FredoGhost thread