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.

Why not use the Preferences to decide external library location?

@Nicole_M_W If click the toolbar icon fails to display the dialog then open the ruby console and click the icon and see it there are errors.

But since we don't know what version of SketchUp or Clothworks you are running its hard to say more really.

The also an extension by Dan Rathbun that resets dialog positions if they are off screen. Its call Dialog Cascader. Search for cascade and you'll find it in our Sketchucation Tools in SketchUp

I've heard about this before. They had a rendering engine called Glowstick that leveraged the tech for faster rendering.

It'll be interesting to see what they show at GDC next week. So far I've not seen any software or hardware being used. Their videos and media always show other apps output.

I think they are focussing on offline render farms where cost saving per frame would be huge for CG in movies etc.

@majid Thanks Majid. That means alot coming from you

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.

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

@thomthom Selection Toys

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@medeek Its a hotel!

Come in Orson....

@L-i-am Those road reflections are on point

Something feels off with the scale. Maybe its the curb or the camera height throwing me off?

Very clever usage.

I always wonder how much 3D printing is contributing to plastic waste. Seeing recycled waste getting used is the right approach.

I always felt the Entity Info panel was a good place to handle component creation.

If you build some mesh object and isolate it in a wrapper(group) you can add component properties via the Entity Panel.

For me the Entity Panel should be the portal to many actions related to your selection. Currently, it just repeats functions other Panels expose.

I can dream....

@erikcoleman1992 Install Sketchucation Tools 4.4.1

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Then use that to install/update extensions.

Restart SketchUp to complete installations fully.

Fredo's extension require Libfredo to fully function

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@L-i-am said in new use for an old building:

Rich, your eye is phenomenal

Critiquing is easy. I appreciate that you don't take offense. Pouring hours/days into a render then hearing 'what is that?' or 'why is this there?' can burst a bubble ...I always like to see your scenes. If I ever jump into TM you'd be my go to guy for help.

Plus if your not making mistakes or errors there's no room to improve.

@nlipovac Nice result.

Rayscaper has such potential. Its fast and feature rich already.

That's UV projection.

Select the face in SketchUp, right click and check if its set to Projected.

At nearly 400k entities I think you are asking a bit too much of SketchUp.

That step relief would be much more performant as a texture. Or you need to drastically reduce the amount of geometry by a factor of 100.

If the end goal is rendering then a subdividing face and displacement would be the way to go.

Or pull the geometry that is the pattern and work to that as it at least under 60k entities.

@onzki You can also use @alsomar Old Save extension

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Save your file in legacy SketchUp formats. Please note that if you save in older versions of SketchUp, the organization of tags into folders and other features implemented in later versions will be lost.

@Mike-Amos said in Homebuild Hi-Fi.:

Rendered in Twilight to give a base level for Rayscaper attempts.

I want to get my greasy paws on that model to see what we could do in Rayscaper.

Looks great in Twilight. Really nice job