Hey, Rayscaper users!

Rayscaper 0.9.13 is available (0.9.11 and 0.9.12 were internal test releases) in the SketchUcation store. There is more good stuff, so I recommend you upgrade to this version.

What Changed?

• Fix flaky material picking. Sometimes, material picking would not work, or pick the wrong materials. This is fixed.
• Fix a cursor problem after viewport dragging; sometimes, the hand cursor would not go away.
• This release also features a simplification of the user interface:
  • Add more readable icons for the Rayscaper window.
  • Improved editors for the scene settings with more intuitive controls.

Reworking the editors was a significant code change, so let me know if something is not working or some things don't make sense to you. I'm here to help!

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

Happy Rendering!

@majid Hey Majid, I will add this to my feature list, but there's not much demand for it right now. The preview scene is baked into the Rayscaper binary, so today, there is no option to overwrite the material preview scene with an alternative scene.

@B2Pi
As far as I know, SketchUcation Tools does not require access to edg3d.io .

Currently there are 2 IP addresses which are used by different parts of the Tools: 144.76.69.227 and 178.63.47.155

Plus some functions (image, javascript, css, and .rbz file downloads) are using the Amazon AWS CloudFront CDN. The CDN URLs are:

https://pluginstatic.sketchucation.com
http://pluginstatic.sketchucation.com
https://pluginrepo.sketchucation.com
http://pluginrepo.sketchucation.com

If the access to https://pluginrepo.sketchucation.com/ and it's sub folders is blocked, it might cause the error message you mentioned.

Let us know if unblocking these URLs helped or not.

@majid There's no custom preview model available right now. A while back, I hid material previews from the user interface. Would you like to have them back?

By custom, do you mean switching between a sphere/cube/plane / etc., or are you looking to load a custom model (e.g., an obj file, ...) used in the material preview?

Cheers,
Thomas

@B2Pi said in [Plugin] SketchUcation Tools:

....it would give me a place to start...

To start what? That has no relation to Sketchucation Tools

@L-i-am Sorry to hear about your health issues! Get well soon.

@TIG said in PFAS chemical exposure (Heads up):

Perhaps there is a god, because after that he got polio and was partially paralyzed, he invented a pulley contraction on his bed to move him, but one day he became entangled in it and was strangled !

Stupid people win stupid prizes

@L-i-am said in PFAS chemical exposure (Heads up):

Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1 week ago (prob wont die of it, but with it fortunately)

Really sorry to hear about your recent health issues. Wish you the best in your fight and a full recovery too.

Leads, asbestos and now PFAs. Will science/engineering ever get to a point where we stop treating ourselves as test dummies?

@grizzler SketchUp installs Plugins to the following path...

C:\Users\SomeName\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp

If you go there when SketchUp is closed with your File Explorer you can rename the Plugins folder to ###Plugins (or any name you wish that doesn't conflict with existing folders). This means when you launch SketchUp none of your Plugins will load.

SketchUp will then see there's no folder named Plugins and it will create one.

So you now have a vanilla environment. If SketchUp launches without issue it is fair to assume your start-up issues are related to to your ###Plugins folder.

Now close SketchUp and go to C:\Users\SomeName\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp and you will see a folder called Plugins and the troublesome ###Plugins folder.

You have the awkward choice of dragging dropping folders/files for extensions into Plugins folder in small batches to see when the startup issue occurs.

Or delete the recent Plugins folder and rename the ###Plugins back to Plugins then try hunt down the issue.

I'm experiencing similar issues where SketchUp won't launch and/or will get to Welcome Screen then fail. So I feel your pain.

@grizzler said in SU24 Crashing on startup.:

Any thoughts?

Rename your Plugins to say ####Plugins to prevent it loading. Start SketchUp and a new Plugins folder will be created.

If it starts then you can safely say there's a conflict at play.

Then comes the narrowing down process......