Hey, Rayscaper users!

Another release!

Rayscaper 0.9.36 Beta is available in the SketchUcation store. More fixes and improvements. As always, I recommend upgrading to the latest version.

What Changed? Improvements Auto Focus Add autofocus for DOF to the perspective camera. With autofocus, Rayscaper will automatically use the distance to the center 3D point in the rendered image as the focus distance (if possible).

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Make the depth-of-field (DOF) blurriness easier to control. The range goes from 0 to 1, but if you need more blur for
your scene, you can punch in a higher value directly in the slider text box (CTRL + click). Make the depth-of-field blurriness slider logarithmic. This gives more control for low blur values. Bug Fixes Fix the normal map strength control. Fix a crash when exporting the scene to an archive.
Spotlights with a falloff of zero would not render on the CPU. This release fixes that. Help me build the community 👍

I'm on Twitter (X) now: https://twitter.com/Rayscaper3d/ - Please follow the @Rayscaper3d that will help me grow the community and spread the word about Rayscaper! 🙏

If you like Rayscaper, please share your renders (final or work-in-progress, it doesn't matter)! This is super motivating and will help me showcase its capabilities to new users.

Happy Rendering!

@alvis

If you set z_min and z_max to the correct points it'll work.
Currently you are specifying them wrongly,
to the bb's 0 corner [z min] and 4 corner [z max]
Instead do something like this to set them to the y_max point
z_min: bounding_box.corner(3).transform(transformation.inverse)
and the corner point above it
z_max: bounding_box.corner(7).transform(transformation.inverse)

Got it. Thanks!

@Rich-O-Brien

Thanks !

@adammuzik said in Fredo corner - license:

@fredo6 Hello, I have the same exact problem and it has been bugging me for an about a year now. Can you help me?

Email support@sketchucation.com and we will take a look. In your email please have the following:

Run the Window > Libfredo Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support menu command in SketchUp and copy/paste the output into your email.

@Adept-Design

Please run the Window > Libfredo Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support menu command in SketchUp and copy/paste the output into your reply.

@Adept-Design
Have you installed the newest versions of Fredo's extensions and LibFredo6, and the SketchUcation toolset [for the licensing] ?
Install extensions using the SketchUcation ExtensionStore³ system or download the RBZs from our PluginStore and use the native installer, through the Extensions Manager...
Restart SketchUp after the installations to sync everything.
There should be submenus under Tools for Fredo's extensions, including license activation etc.
There are also menu items and Toolbars to use these tools etc...

@aleman_1940 whyat version of SketchUp are you using?

@TIG Hi, I assume so as I only downloaded it a month ago. My "trial" will have expired now anyway but thanks for your response.

@samuel_t bump 🙂

@Box Thank you sir! I finally got things working correctly and was able to "play around" a little. The image below represents what I figured out using the FredoScale tools. I greatly appreciate your help. 😁 👍 👍
FredoScaleSample.png

@Ke3

It would be useful you indicate which error you got when exporting.

Possibly, it would also be helpful to have the skp file to have a look.

@wgriffith

I've never heard of this before.
What's your OS ?
Do you have the latest version installed ?
If it fails to appear in the Extensions menu / toolbars can you please check if the file SketchUcation.rb and its subfolder are still in your Plugins folder...
If it is there try this...
Open the Ruby Console [under Extensions > Developers Tools] and type or copy/paste this in + return

load 'SketchUcation.rb'

What happens ?
Do you have similar issues with any other extensions ?

@mrwick https://downloads.sketchucation.com/licensing/SCFLicense-Instructions_to_Users.pdf

Licenses are at https://sketchucation.com/webshop/my-licences.php

You need latest releases of all extensions installed including Sketchucation Tools
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/696-sketchucationtools

...and Libfredo
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LibFredo6

@ntxdave OK, I adjusted the items you pointed out. And I should have mentioned before that the material was Disney Metalic. However, I made some adjustments:

Dialed back the metal Increased the roughness Dialed back the IOR

Hope you find this on to be improved.
Revised Bently Model.png

@Jason2025 Not yet.

Implementing a fully functioning Physics engine inside SketchUp is not a simple task. The fact Anton pulled it off at such a young age speaks volumes of his ability.

We are actively pursuing getting this updated but he is enjoying his early 20s. I believe asking him to undertake such a massive project without compensation is not feasible.

@noam309
You can manage individual extension's licensing using the submenu entry for that extension, under the Tools menus.
Alternatively, e.g. if you don't have access to that PC anymore, you can manage your licenses through SketchUcation.com - PluginStore My Licenses page... You need to login to see the listings...

Please tell anyone can I make 3D model on this for carving on CNC machine?