For sure. Epic is investing and acquiring all the right tech and content to rival Adobe in the design space. Worth also mentioning https://www.o3de.org/ which is an Open Source game engine based off Crysis Engine. Be interested to see if any clever developers use this to front end realtime rendering for ArchViz arena.

I had to ditch a LOT of older CAD stuff to make way but I finally got UE5 installed. It looks extremely powerful considering the price point and there is a definite effect to be felt in the industry when the dust settles but that has been asked before so maybe little will change. Habit rules us as much as anything else.

Very kind words from you all. Its mostly primitive shapes. Vertex Tools and SUbD do the heavy lifting. What I found interesting was delving into Blender's EEVEE engine. DAE export from SketchUp and some quick PBR materials and 3secs later you get a render. I would love a standalone EEVEE engine for SketchUp. That would be bananas!

@RedRover72 Every update major update to SketchUp breaks it so its becomes tiresome to make it backwards and current compatible. We'll see what SketchUp 2024 does before considering looking at it.

Nice model, need(?) to add fillet at cylinder intersection

prima!

Scooped it up early this morning. Took it for a short spin and it works great. Some new things to learn but the basics for grass are still there. More robust and faster. A lot of people were looking forward to this update. Thanks.

Have you turned off Allow Checking for updates in Preferences/General perhaps?

Cool but only for Pro! Ventre-saint-gris! (swearword between feasting and drunkenness)

Err, thanks for not sending an e-mail to all your licensed users that there was an update released...

Yes very cool ! Love it when a little something is left to the imagination.

Simple clean and great

Very cool, icy in fact.

Great model mate.

I'm aware of the full BricsCAD workflow... that's part of the interest.

@jql said: That feudalism was based on these things: war, power, money and leisure. Romans who had power, dedicated to leisure and paid other people to do war for them. Those mercenaries got successful and got promoted into power. And a successful predemocratic culture gave birth to a powerful war culture. Culture is always there but in certain contexts, certain forms of culture are more valid than others. The culture of leisure is everywhere in our society and employs a lot of freelancers. The culture of war is hidden away from society's eyes but it's still there and very present. I wonder how long will we be able to keep it away. I've heard some other factors to the "fall" of the empire if not feudalism: failure to assimilate (that is fully accept and empower) tribes who were doing the warring/security for the rich Romans in the end, and intolerance in general. Sound familiar?

@box said: That is sad news indeed, thanks for letting us know. It is always difficult to know how you feel at the loss of someone you have only met on the internet. All my best wishes and sympathy go out to his family and friends. You'll be missed Charles. Well said. Rest in peace Charles.

Thanks Rich for this info - really great stuff !! and a very nice gesture from this generous man to share these !!!!

might hasten up development of CORONA for sketchup which is positive thing...