Yes, Pentti, thanks! This is still a sort of "workaround" for the moment (and needs to be repeated with each component definition). The ideal would be some automated procedure of course. Maybe one day.

glad to see you interested in catmull-clark subdivision coding..

on the go to write a mail… I'm curious about the answer. I'll post their mail to leave a feedback for others who have the same question like me. Just to clarify things from ground up. Fortunately, Kerkythea uses IES too.

And see here how Blender will sculpt in a few days in direct sculpting render! Were arrive at the end possible by michaliszissiou [image: twoOldPL.jpg]

very cool!

I use Twilight and Thea. Twilight is fast and easy to handle, you can even project images with a spotlight. Thea might be more complex but on the other hand you may save a lot of time through its neat features. I enjoy positioning the lights right in Thea while in interactive-GPU-render mode. Then I often use the relight function to leave the finetuning for afterwards. Really like this workflow.

Nice links, thanks ThomThom regards

@sepo said: wow....this looks so promising. Could someone elaborate if the trees are going to fee pay for or part of library for existing users? They will be available for all licensed users.

@fletch said: I would like to create a nice endless knot lamp to print on a 3D printer. That would look neat I bet!

shame it doe snot support Max 2012.

I didn't find anything in SketchUp's EULA or License regarding weapons / nuclear weapons. What evil things SketchUp makes possible!

Don't forget the free plugin... Gk Postscript Plot which Dave R talks about on his blog...http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/47135/printing-patterns-for-templates

Hi , first , thanx to have taken the time to answer I appreciate, really. Next , I found the solution. I had a doubt seeing all the processes on my computer. And knowing my scene, that was not a poly number problem. I remembered a thread were it was talking about the maximum size of the texture. And that was the problem. I used 12000²px texture sized. Sketchup itself could'nt have threat such an info. I resized the texture , and it worked. So that was a texture size error. Working normally on big softawre like 3DS MAX , etc , I use to make big sized textures. So that was my fault. Thanx a lot anyway for the anwser. And really good job for your software. Some lights artefacts problems persist, but globally it's a good job

@notareal said: Have you read trough http://www.kerkythea.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10866 Also you will need to have X-11 installed. Thanks mate. Did the manual extraction and works fine. Seems it's the installer, not the app itself that's the problem.

Thea Render is one of the few commercial renderers that can offer both biased and unbiased render engines. Biased/unbiased is a question about accuracy of render algorithm, biased rendering do make some shortcuts for faster results that are needed for animations and so. With it user has a control on every aspect and parameter of render engines. Unbiased rendering is progressive by it's nature, it does offer a easy, parameter free and highly accurate, but slower rendering. You can use the same scene no matter witch engine you choose to use. Thea and SU both do use OpenGL for displaying the workspace, so one can say that even reasonable "light" GPU can handle the burden (even integrated display adapter might be enough). Later Thea will have GPU accelerated rendering, but at the moment just your system should work just fine with Thea. With i7 and 16 GB RAM it's hard to choke Thea as it does benefit from 64-bit OS - you can render more complex scenes and use more freely some features like relight (as available RAM is the main limiter). You can freely test Thea, with resolution limited and watermarked version. If you want to compare render time for 720p or higher, it will raise linearly related resolution change. So even with a smaller test render you can estimate how long it would take to render some higher resolution image... Please, be free to join to Thea Render forums for further questions. ps here is some interesting music & relight experiments by Wax http://www.youtube.com/user/wax78/videos?query=relight

@adamb said: LightUp (http://light-up.co.uk) will render TGA sequences from your SketchUp Scene animations. Thanks! I'll check into it...

What are your global Displacement settings? Have you tried playing with edge length - setting it to 1 or 0.5? (warning! very detailed and slow setting!)

Maxwell Render is at 50% off again thanks to Spain's goals against Italy -- sale discount is valid until July 8th. Best, Jason.

Hi rogueparker, Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try it. Charly