hi baz, thanks for your quick help, it´s pretty cool! best of luck ! [image: zujcp1.jpg]

hi, i´ve found this video, which makes you happier ( hope so:-) enjoy ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuudbR9jouw&feature=related [image: zujcp1.jpg]

hi, a very nice effect! lightup is truly amazing soft for SU fans. i don´t want to try your patience, but need to create an effect like this. any chance please? thank a lot! [image: Zx0TO.jpg] [image: zujcp1.jpg]

I had a similar issue some time ago. In my case I didn't need to explode all nested elements, just the inner one where the image is. I am guessing that this is what Gaieus meant when he said "do not explode the component though but edit and explode the image inside". Seems like you just didn't go "deep" enough when you tried the first time, so my guess is that you don't need to explode 3 times, but just once on the inner nested element which is the image entity. Doing it this way you maintain the advantages of a component.

Amazing! I guess it is only a matter of time that we'll be able to see full rendered animations on our real desktops. Just imagine a videogame played like that!

@valerostudio said: Uhhhh. This makes absolutely no sense? Why are the forums here? To answer questions about the software we use. Just because we ask questions about Maxwell is no reason to ban a user to answer questions. Are you JOKING??? Valerostudio, Your 'Why are the forums here?', is a good question. Have you thought that an answer might be, because a dedicated group of people put in many, many hours of work for little or no remuneration to the extent that it costs them money / time and they have to secure support from commercial 3rd party entities that gain from exposure on these forums? I won't go into the ins and outs of what happened with NextLimit (Maxwell for Google SketchUp) as that's confidential. However, I can advise that matters have now been resolved to everyone's satisfaction and I see Jason will be continuing to advise / help in the areas he is expert in. So I am now locking this topic and suggest we all get on with more productive matters. Mike

It seems that it could be a Topocad file http://adtollo.se/en/surveying-mapping/download/

@chris fullmer said: ps - I work on images that get up to nearly 1gb. And they just keep getting larger and larger each year as I develop my editing process. I'm sure I'll break the gig size soon and probably keep going. Chris, what graphics program are you using with these size files? I have a 500mb aerial jpg that I tried to change to a png in GIMP but went to 2.5gb! Only reason why I tried it was that SU like png's right...?

It is quite possible to do great looking interior renders with Modo. It just isn't as fast as Vray. That being said, it does have its strengths -flexibility, ease of use, the preview renderer- and I'm guessing that the introduction of light portals will prove most useful. I am dying to try it out.

@unknownuser said: Podium doesn't run inside of SketchUp, and there's a 64 bit version available. So that's not the issue, I think. Correct I am running 64 bit Podium v2.8 and it does not render within SketchUp. The computer i have for rendering is specifically design for crunching numbers and rendering, only thing it needs is a better GPU (which im working on) in the hopes to be using Lumion, just need to get work to sign off on it. I will get in contact with Podium to see what the problem could be, I might try rendering a basic model and see how large i can go though Gaieus, Installing Kerkythea 64bit was a little tricky as not all the files actually get installed but once it is and you render in it, it flys compared to the 32bit version!

We would be happy to look at the model to find out why it isn't rendering in Shaderlight. If you would like to email support@artvps.com we can try and find out what is going on. If it is a large model we can go through options of getting it over to us when you email. Martin

Now if they could link them so that all you have to do is click MXM and then click that pencil, we would be golden! It's really the only complaint I have about the plug-in right now.

Here is an update, the emitter was a single plane at the top of the shade 3cm square. I think the effect is quite successful although i'd like to have seen a bulb as the source. [image: nnYa_Starkbedscene.png]

Yes, true, I also noticed it - however it was already too late (I told you did not do too much justice to LUp) The panorama was rendered at 8192x4096 spherical (extremely fast when the tour tool was already active) but for technical reasons, I resampled it to 8000x4000.

@mwm5053 said: echo boost is still windows only last time I checked. @ Falk are still using SU 6 or have you not updated your profile, just wondering SU 8 now. Never bothered to update my profile.

For me Rendering in general is a good idea, software specific is not really nessecary. At the moment the way this forum is set up allows you to access information fast without trawling through endless subsections for support information. Kudos to the team The only subforums that would assist this for me are a separate place for 'whatever versus whatever' threads and a place for polls and discussions of polls both of which are surplus to my own search requirements. Oh yes and wise words Mike.... Regards Sam

adam, this looks great. john

Yeah, I remember that, I did it about two years ago with the trial version.

Cool but a little boring to input values by hands for some surfaces familly

I have Neat Image and find it great. I tried Topaz Bundle awhile back but it didn't seem as good as Neat Image.