Beautiful render. Car model is exquisite. That interior is top class

It's crazy to see the scale of these ships. Great stuff so far

That's really clever. Probably cause planning authorities and insurance to implode

Someone is liking Blender more and more

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.

@utiler If its straight up SketchUp stuff you're fine with that build. More than enough.

Really nice to hear from you too. Those late night IRE v AUS banter sessions were fun.

Lovely.

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.

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And idea what will happen with Quixel Bridge and/or Quixel Mixer or will that go through Fab?

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Very smart. Why is only one lamp on?

Would love to see that corner illuminated too.

@L-i-am i built it. It's about 15 components just arrayed around

What I find interesting with Unreal is that so many Triple A gaming studios are adopting rather than developing in-house engines.

That means Unreal is only going to get better over time as top talent finding roadblocks making 3D environments will benefit the engine.

That naturally passes to Twin Motion which will get a more user friendly feature/s for visualisation. Acquiring TM was such as good move by Epic. Especially when you add Quixel, Megascans and SketchFab.

If Epic ever decides to provide a modelling platform to users it will really shake up the space.

This video shows there's a ton of setup that has happened to help automate. Can you imagine what something like this could be if it cooks and refines for another 12 months!

@tuna1957 said in Mod Family Room:

the damn bulb burned out !

Curse those old school incandescent bulbs that had a shelf life of 3 months.

@Dave-R Are you open sourcing the print files for others or is it a commercial product for the living aids sector?

I knew someone who invented a sock removal aid that ended up licensed to some large US based living aid supplier. It was initially an aid for wetsuit removal that caught the eye of an investor who saw a use in living aids.

Those clips that receive the belt must be pretty unique in the space.

@Mike-Amos said in Twinmotion 2025 ecosystem:

Having found that gravy train, not likely to change is it?

I wouldn't go that far. They need a recurring payment model to continue development.

But an option like a SketchUp only app without all the extra bells and whistles.

I have never used Trimble Connect, the web based app or mobile apps etc. So for me its just a bunch of stuff.

I don't need a swiss army knife. I just want a knife....one can dream

It's hard to decipher what going on as it is only a rendered image. There's no spotlight values or a raw SketchUp image showing the setup.

Did you try SPGears?

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Yes, Its the GI component of the light aspect in UE. Resources heavy and benefits for RTX cards.

You get all that beautiful bounce light and realtime AO but you can see even in Triple A gaming that the hardware to run this is pretty hefty.

The new 50 series nVidia cards, in particular the 5090 at ~$2000, are really suited and geared towards this tech. Apps like Twin Motion will benefit from that but the consumer needs to invest every year in GPU cards to leverage these benefits.

When you take the yearly cost of SketchUp, Twinmotion and GPU/CPU it means you need good paying project work to even consider staying competitive. Tech is moving so fast these days but its is also bringing with it rising costs.

I still prefer old path tracing engines rather than these realtime solutions. I feel they lack that physical correctness in materials. There's something I just like when it comes to authoring my own physically correct material and seeing the results.

I've the same fondness with SketchUp as it has simpler approach to 3D that works.

No, you can't search libraries unfortunately.

ThruPaint does initially take time to build a database but after its ok to search.

@Glenn-at-home I want it please...the mustang...thanks