thank you very much for these background informations jason! people can always count on your maxwell knowledge here...much appreciated!

Do bear in mind you have created a scene where there are many more bounces to resolve than normal (by virtue of having mirrors reflecting into each other -- AGS is just a metal mirror with reduced opacity) -- this will take time to resolve and as I said SL 18 would be the minimum I would personally accept as "final". Best, Jason.

Most likely this is an emitter/instancing issue -- disable "use instances" to check. Also, you should probably update to the newest version of Maxwell and see if that clears the issue up. Best, Jason.

hi, you can also grab mxm files from here: http://resources.maxwellrender.com/news_scripts.php?t=1 p.s. avoid using materials with displacement within Maxwell for Sketchup

Try the latest version of Thomthom's "Simple Plugins Installer", and after you've installed that and restarted Sketchup, you can try to reinstall the RBZ archive using it, rather than the native-installer [which I assume you have used initially]... It should spot some permission/VirtualStore issues that the native-installer might miss... It might still be an 'security/permissions' issue... Have you checked this, as I suggested previously ? The Plugins folder's security/permissions needs to be FULL for you [and All] and its contents/subfolders...

This is a good place to ask, but more appropriate would be Developers section.

Whoah, I had no idea. It is indeed the letter Ø causing the problem. Thank you very much.

I'm tempted, but I'm not quite sure whether I should get a new license. After all, how many apps does one hobbyist need? Edit: Watched the tutorial in its entirety. It indeed is good. If you want to know about rendering in Modo, these vids are just what you need.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17899 Bep

Mystery solved thanks to massimo! I had to switch to rgb mode in Photoshop before saving as PNG. All is well now. Now to continue growing trees.

Hey Jason, Thanks for the reply! I will try this. Best, Pieter

An official material tutorial would be welcome! Thea is great and every time I read through a tutorial I learn something new and useful.

Some issues with service provider... we seen these happen time to time.

@solo said: Once you register Thea after purchase you can download some Xfrog trees in the licensed user section, there will be more added as they are optimised for Thea. The next version of Thea is 1,2 probably coming out next month, free upgrade to all registered users so buying now will make sense. How do you plan to use Terragen2? with Vue? Thanks for the info on Thea. I was just holding out in case they had an upcoming sale. Was wondering if historically the cg community had these conditions every year. I actually did some research and chose Terragen over Vue after reading some comparison reviews. Traditionally I been painting landscapes for many years so having a 3D landscape generator makes sense for me to have. I would like to use Terragen to make back drops, and even use generated terrain meshes to import into blender or even Sketchup. I downloaded the demo already and the only issue I'm having so far is the lack of good tutorials and info to learn the thing quickly. I would like the license version to use professionally and break out of the 800x600 maximum res. As far as xfrog goes, aside from the libraries I can get to use in Thea, I would like to have the tree generator itself so I can make my own trees. So far I been using the free Tree[d] program but xfrog look so much better. Im still feeling my way around the cg community and getting an idea of what tools will be great for me to have in my workflow. So far I got plenty of modeling tools, now I am focusing on Thea and anything that enhances the environments for my projects.

Use Maxwell Z-Clipping instead of SketchUp section planes for the type of scene you have shown -- this works, always has. Best, Jason.

So excited about this!

@archigrafix said: Yes very interesting option...hope other softwares will soon get this. Anyway I find indigo is still a little expensive IMO The RT version costs less than 100 Euros (until 23.11.), I think it is not very expensive compared to others?!

cool! these trees look good... thanks for the link! best V

@adamb said: Thanks for the heads up! I've added an annotation on the video noting the different key for Windows. Adam Cheers Adam, really enjoying this lightup, going to be playing with it all day to learn the ins and outs,

@iichiversii said: Ok that worked Rich, so what was wrong with my PNG ? and what should i have done to make it work? Perhaps what you've done is export the texture and done "save as" a PNG. Which converts it to a PNG file. But the embedded Material texture you had before that went red (named "TREE(1).PNG") was actually a jpeg with a misleading extension. but glad you've resolve it! Adam