You draw with a pencil and it makes it 3D(ish).... not sure of a practical use of the meshes it generates but it can only improve.

MeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Reminiscent Mesh Generation and Editing

Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Reminiscent Mesh Generation and Editing

(derkleineli.github.io)

Similar to Feather: https://www.feather.art/

I like these uses of AI as a companion while designing rather than the current brute force replacement of human designers.

Yay! Wrap-R

Looks like a fun texturing project too!

@massimo I'm gonna try this in Rayscaper. It uses the newer PBR disney shader and I wonder how it handles glass when you apply real world properties to both geometry and the shader.

It has a classic glass shader along with the 'Fast' glass. But when I see how Thea produced such accurate results it would be interesting to see.

Thanks for sharing that. The glass reflections really were on point in your renders and now I can see why.

@pixelcruncher I hope its a toggleable feature. Having full control over sun position is important for artistic control.

Plus the ability to add more than one directional light is also important. So I would not like that support for SketchUp sun position removes that ability too.

Maybe a 4th light that represent SketchUp sun or if I right click a Di-Light I can set it to SketchUp position.

@L-i-am said in PFAS chemical exposure (Heads up):

Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1 week ago (prob wont die of it, but with it fortunately)

Really sorry to hear about your recent health issues. Wish you the best in your fight and a full recovery too.

Leads, asbestos and now PFAs. Will science/engineering ever get to a point where we stop treating ourselves as test dummies?

@panixia said in SubD examples and models:

Time to unwrap it

I'll say a prayer

At this point I'm convinced your trying to make the Wizard of Oz machine...

Great modelling but why no Ambient Occlusion style?

@pixelcruncher said in RayScaper:

This was my thinking: have a context menu on the directional light that says sync with SketchUp sun position or have a tick box in the directional light config sync from Sketchup. Then, it would track it in real-time. Option two would be the logical path to quickly support sun animations for shadow studies.

Both sound solid. I used 2 directional light in my Table Lamp scene. Having multiple Di-Lights for me is important to really match real world shadowing effects that a single light cannot achieve.

As long a SketchUp Sun support doesn't impact the flexibility I'm happy to see it.

My preference if lights is getting discussed would be Area Light support

@Gus-R said in Oooops:

@Rich-O-Brien Get off my lawn!

The right side bar's text is kind of small for my aging eyes. Can you make the font bigger?

We'll be tweaking as we go so expect improvements. As you can imagine migrating was a big challenge. Keeping historical stuff was important.

So poke around for a bit before piling on the requests

@TIG said in PFAS chemical exposure (Heads up):

Perhaps there is a god, because after that he got polio and was partially paralyzed, he invented a pulley contraction on his bed to move him, but one day he became entangled in it and was strangled !

Stupid people win stupid prizes

@Dave-R Nothing comes close to SketchUp for native screenshots. Even minus shadows it's so easy to read the drawing.

@pixelcruncher The issue without still have the plane in SketchUp would be it blocking your view.

Your point and directional components are great because they are not intrusive. So a similar setup to that would be perfect....

@Gus-R said in NEW Forum Software Issues:

@gullfo Rich, when can we start filling up the suggestion box? I only have two things.

Be gentle Gus. Its been a huge undertaking to get the old content into this newer system.

I'd love if users just poked around for a few days to see how it works and feels.

But if you see or experience a genuine system error or unusable feature let us know.

You can put them here as I subbed to this thread

@Box Thanks for sharing that. Seriously talented stuff.

@pixelcruncher said in Folding Step Animation:

That is a very cool idea!

Psst....Rayscaper needs Animator support

@Mike-Amos Since the viewport zooming/panning update I've noticed that behaviour.

I tend to use the material list to pick materials because its not giving me a sense of security picking materials from the render viewport.

@magixman7 If you need account help email support[at]sketchucation.com

At quantum level I'd say trying to understand it is a whole new branch of science.

Did you see Google Quantum Chip? https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe.

Its kinda frightening that we have the ability to play in a realm we can't yet fully explain.

That's kinda nuts!

Does D5 support motion blur? Seeing the background blur by would be yummy.

I love that model.

@Mike-Amos said in Rayscaper, My trip down the road to adjumacation.:

For some reason the mirror is not reflecting, suitably set up in Rayscaper, just not apparent in the render

What render method are you using?

Could it be the Max Depth for Approx GI need increasing if you are using Approx GI?