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    • soloS Offline
      solo
      last edited by

      Adam

      Good Idea on the pots, I will look into it.

      Thanks for the offer to promote my collection, every bit counts.

      Did you see my recent inclusion?, that's mean't as a joke...or is it? ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

      As for price, I have looked around at Cornicopia, Turbo squid, and a few other sites for an idea but they are just rediculously expensive, I would not dream of such prices, I was wondering what y'all think (hope this question doesn't bite me on the ass) I should charge.

      http://www.solos-art.com

      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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      • EarthMoverE Offline
        EarthMover
        last edited by

        haha the flamingo! Nice touch! Or did you mean the gnome? Either way, very clever.

        Pete, you've gotta talk the ruby guys into creating a Scatter Ruby for sketchup. I've been playing with scatter tool in max lately and can't help but thing how much that would help in sketchup with things like plants and grass. Since all components have gluing planes and snap to faces and edges, I don't think this would be impossible. I'd image for what you are doing, it would be great to scatter leaves on branches or quills on a cactus. Just a thought.

        3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
        Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
        Content Creator at Skapeup

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @earthmover said:

          haha the flamingo! Nice touch! Or did you mean the gnome? Either way, very clever.

          Pete, you've gotta talk the ruby guys into creating a Scatter Ruby for sketchup. I've been playing with scatter tool in max lately and can't help but thing how much that would help in sketchup with things like plants and grass. Since all components have gluing planes and snap to faces and edges, I don't think this would be impossible. I'd image for what you are doing, it would be great to scatter leaves on branches or quills on a cactus. Just a thought.

          Like Component Spray?

          Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • EarthMoverE Offline
            EarthMover
            last edited by

            As far as I've tried, I can't get compospray to work on things like cylinders and spheres. Here's a video showing how scatter works in Max if you want to take a stab at it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCRPf0ARtg&feature=PlayList&p=05436D32294883CD&playnext=1&index=2

            I'd imagine in sketchup. a scatter tool would have to be limited to the individual faces that form the sphere. I was just thinking for making things like trees and plants, scattering along a cylinder type object would be very useful. Perhaps you can do it with compospray and I'm just missing how.

            3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
            Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
            Content Creator at Skapeup

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              steelers05
              last edited by

              Sounds great. These look really awesome and I trust they willl be well worth whatever you charge. Anxiously awaiting. Thank you in advance

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              • R Offline
                Ross Macintosh
                last edited by

                Hi Pete!
                I see your plants collection is now offered for sale. (http://solosplace.com/3Dgarden.aspx) I'm happy to be one of the first to purchase the set and to support you in this venture. I'm sure the components will be very useful.

                Regards, Ross

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                  thomthom
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  Textures have been carefully mapped and applied using projections and polygon sampling, so exploding groups will destroy the UV mapping.

                  I've not experienced that.

                  Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    Ok, I see it now. Tried it on one of your plant. Seem to be when components/groups are scaled and skewed. Wasn't aware of that.

                    ...wonder if it's possible to script an explode that doesn't do that.

                    On a sidenoe: the texture for the Generic tree looks odd and faceted. Is that suppose to be like that?

                    Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                    • soloS Offline
                      solo
                      last edited by

                      Thanks guys, I appreciate your support.

                      Thomthom, I have corrected that texture so you can iether re-download from the link you got or simply change the material size from 12' to 1',not sure what happened there as i made sure to check all textures before uploading.

                      Thanks again guys.

                      http://www.solos-art.com

                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        For future collections, do you think the nesting and amount of groups can be reduced?

                        As mentioned before, V-Ray will take a long time processing scenes with many deeply nested components. While the file size is small, it's not improving the V-Ray rendering time. Not sure how other render engines deal with this. File sizes doesn't concern me too much, all though I understand it's important since the product is download product. But in my experience it's the textures that add up most of the size, the geometry less.

                        Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Also, it'd be nice if the origin where located around the root or the plant/tree, not the corner of the component.

                          Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                          • soloS Offline
                            solo
                            last edited by

                            I certainly will look into the nested groups and component thing a lot closer for the next collection, I tried to make this collection as tight as posssible, I know Vray has had issues with nested groups in the past. I do not own Vray and my trial has expired as i would have tested them in Vray if I had it available.

                            Here are a few plants from the collection posed with one of Tom's houses (Tomsdesk), straight SU output for those that do not render.


                            http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3711/collectionscene8gw2.jpg


                            http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7858/collectionscene18bi8.jpg

                            http://www.solos-art.com

                            If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              With the plants I've tested V-Ray seemed to start quickly, but it's been very small tests. So real life tests has to be done. I'll report back when I've tried it on a full scale project. I thought I'd just mention it as I know from previous experience with V-Ray what causes potential issues.

                              Very nice package Solo. I signed up to be notified on new ones. And very nice price as well! ๐Ÿ˜„


                              plant test.png

                              Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              • FrederikF Offline
                                Frederik
                                last edited by

                                @thomthom said:

                                Very nice package Solo. I signed up to be notified on new ones. And very nice price as well! ๐Ÿ˜„

                                I can agree to this...!! ๐Ÿ‘
                                And I can confirm that they're perfect for rendering in KT as well...!! ๐Ÿ˜„

                                Cheers
                                Kim Frederik

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                                • soloS Offline
                                  solo
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks guys.

                                  Good news (phew!!) I downloaded another vray trial (running out of email addresses) and rendered scene without any material adjustments, actually without any adjustments period. and all the plants rendered without having to explode any components, so I can say that my plants work with the new version of Vray without hitch.

                                  Excuse the pathetic render, I am new to vray and just wanted to see if the plants rendered okay.


                                  http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9624/vraycollectionoq9.jpg

                                  http://www.solos-art.com

                                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                  • W Offline
                                    wolfy
                                    last edited by

                                    Wow Solo! These are gorgeous and will come in very handy. This college student is gonna have to sacrifice a couple meals to get this one!! Priorities ๐Ÿ˜„

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                                      mirjman
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                                      dear solo-

                                      regarding the deeply nested component issue, you might find this explaination by adamb very interesting about components/containers and processor usage:

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                                        ton baeten
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks Pete for the very nice collection.
                                        A great purchase, real value for money. Already looking forward to the next collection.

                                        greetings,
                                        Ton

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                                          Fletch
                                          last edited by

                                          every time I tried to view this thread I was at work and could see none of the images... so could not contribute my request as I had no idea what you had done. ๐Ÿ˜†

                                          now am downloading my new purchase, thanks Solo!

                                          I would make a request still however, I would like a couple of good 'parking lot' trees... kind of like the now-classic SU aspen... but better looking and more full. If you want photographic examples or scientific names I can get them for you.

                                          Fletch
                                          Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                                            chango70
                                            last edited by

                                            Solo thanks for the time n effort. This is definitely better than anything I found on 3D Warehouse. I just wish the conversion rate was better. Used to be ยฃ1 = $2 now its ยฃ1 = $1.3.

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