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In the example file it's not as a clean and pre-planned as your good example.
I think that it is doable but not on the file shared. Where the tube is intersecting the flat top face is a bit of a mess. The tube geometry has a few probably unintentional edges.
You can do this but you need to pre-plan the profiles to get the nice results Dave does in his sleep.
It's crazy to see the scale of these ships. Great stuff so far
@jumpjack said:
could chatgpt automatically turn a 32 bit .rb source into 64 bit?
I asked it how to lose weight and it beat me up and took my shoes
Here's how it was made....click to play gif
sketchucation (community.sketchucation.com)
Took me ages to find it. But I love this type of use of SketchUp. PNG billboards are such powerful assets.
I think you see a big improvement in the next Rayscaper Beta build. Thomas has identified and fixed a major issue related to how materials were rendering mesh normals.
From my tests on this new build I am getting more consistent and believable material results. It was something that was bugging me for a long time.
I won't mention the other changes as that's for Thomas to speak on. But I am enjoying so far.
@HornOxx can you describe what it is you want to do?
@jo-ke I never know what to say about AI images...
Its impressive at what it does.
It’s the approx method and took about 90secs.
This new AI denoising on demand is actually improving render times by quite a large factor.
On the older builds it felt like the denoiser was running after each resolve. Now you can render, pause, check the denoise, turn it off and resume rendering again. It’s noticeably faster.
The light values too feel better. It’s not that orange kelvin anymore.
Good stuff so far.
@HornOxx The reason I ask is because I use a AutoHotkey Window Resizer to resize SketchUp so the my viewport is a particular ratio. It takes a little bit of setup but saves me from guesswork.
As an example if I hit CTRL+F10 it resizes SketchUp so its viewport is 600px x 600px. Now I can export 1:1 image ratio at whatever resolution I need.
Its a bit hacky but I've used it for years.
@Tru-la-la Lol....I wish I had that hair and the bike!
My Opel Combo is not as cool 
The sparkle material is nice!
@L-i-am i built it. It's about 15 components just arrayed around
@TIG said
but Rich knows how, and perhaps he can share his example script, or point you/us to someone else's ?
To be clear, my AHK script, is cobbled together from other scripts and is dependent on a particular UI setup in SketchUp. This is a complete hack with a very blunt axe but it works for me.
NOTE: This works on any active window its not limited to SketchUp
Download and install AutoHotkey
Download and unzip this into a folder wherever you want on your system
Resizer.zip
If you double click the ResizeWindows.ahk it will add an icon to your tray so you know when you have it active for use.
The shortcuts keys I've set are:
If you open the ResizeWindows.ahk with a text editor you will see the following:
#NoEnv
#SingleInstance, force
#Persistent
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
Menu, Tray, Icon, %A_WorkingDir%\icons\resize.png ,, 1 ; icon
#installKeybdHook
TrayTip, %A_ScriptName%, Started, 1
^+F8:: ; Get window stats to create more presets below
WinGetActiveStats, winT, winW, winH, winX, winY
WinGetClass, class, A
MsgBox,
(
- TITLE
%winT%
- DIMENSIONS
%winW% x %winH%
)
return
^F10::ResizeWin(956,719) ; Ctrl+F10 1:1 @600px x 600px
^F9::ResizeWin(1156,719) ; Ctrl+F9 4:3 @800px x 600px
^F8::ResizeWin(1156,569) ; Ctrl+F8 16:9 @800px x 450px
^F7::ResizeWin(1301,524) ; Ctrl+F7 21:9 @945px x 405px
^!Lbutton:: ; Ctrl+Alt+Lbutton to toggle always on top
WinGet, currentWindow, ID, A
WinGet, ExStyle, ExStyle, ahk_id %currentWindow%
if (ExStyle & 0x8) ; 0x8 is WS_EX_TOPMOST.
{
Winset, AlwaysOnTop, off, ahk_id %currentWindow%
}
else
{
WinSet, AlwaysOnTop, on, ahk_id %currentWindow%
}
return
ResizeWin(Width = 0,Height = 0)
{
WinGetPos,X,Y,W,H,A
If %Width% = 0
Width := W
If %Height% = 0
Height := H
WinMove,A,,%X%,%Y%,%Width%,%Height%
}
;-----------------------------
;Collapse titlebar
LWIN & LButton::
WinSet, Style, -0xC00000, A
return
;Uncollapse titlebar
LWIN & RButton::
WinSet, Style, +0xC00000, A
return
;-----------------------------
Gui, +ToolWindow +AlwaysOnTop -SysMenu -Caption +Border
Gui, Color, cCCCCCC
SetTimer, Draw, 100
Draw:
MouseGetPos, MouseX, MouseY, MouseWin ; get mouse coords/window
WinActivate, %MouseWin%
WinGetActiveStats, Title, WinW, WinH, WinX, WinY ; get the stats of the active window
; variables
DrawW := (WinW)
DrawH := (WinH)
DrawX := (WinX - 1)
DrawY := (WinY - 1)
; show the gui
Gui, Show, NoActivate w%DrawW% h%DrawH% x%DrawX% y%DrawY%, Draw
WinSet, TransColor, CCCCCC, Draw
return
It is lines 24 to 27 that handle the resizing of the SketchUp window. These you may need to tweak to get the result you want. For me it does what I want. I could go into more details but look at this filthy hack length already.
@HornOxx said in Julia Eneroth's Viewport Resizer / SketchUp 2023:
of course doesn't lead to the desired result on the basis of my SkUp setup
You can just press CTRL+F10 to set it to 'My Square' and then use File > Export >2D Graphic. In the option box if you click Use View Size you will see what the image dimension is for you.
Then adjust line 24 values accordingly to get you to 600px. Not the most elegant approach.
I think the better approach would be to ask Fredo if his Screenshot tool in Fredo Portrait could be extended to handle this. It already has ratio based selecting.
That brick and roof texture is so nice.
Much prefer the latest without the foreground trees. Yummy renders all of them
Next up is a improvised sword comprised of a ride-on lawnmower blade and wooden handle...
Not too keen on getting a belt of that!
@L-i-am Go is Sketchup for Web through your browser with no extension support.
If you want SketchUp desktop app you need the Pro plan. They don't offer a plan for just SketchUp without its companion apps.
I'd have a serious chat with Sidney about the clock 
Few years ago I used have a Church of Light model that I'd test render engines with. Always liked Tadao Ando designs.
