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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 — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          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 — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            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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              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 — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                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 — 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! 😄


                    plant test.png

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

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                      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! 😄

                      I can agree to this...!! 👍
                      And I can confirm that they're perfect for rendering in KT as well...!! 😄

                      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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                          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 😄

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                            mirjman
                            last edited by

                            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. 😆

                                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 £1 = $2 now its £1 = $1.3.

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                                    Ecuadorian
                                    last edited by

                                    Thank you very much for releasing this wonderful collection, Master Solo. I put these plants to work immediately. Rendered in Kerkythea, post-processed in Photoshop. I hope my client likes it 😉 .
                                    Watercolor.jpg

                                    And I also hope the Washingtonia palm is high on your list for Vol. 2 😄 .

                                    -Miguel Lescano
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                                      solo
                                      last edited by

                                      That looks fantastic Miguel, and the plants look good too 😉

                                      I like the style, I really need to learn how to do water colors (I work with PSP not photoshop so tutorials are thin on the ground)

                                      I have a washingtonia palm planned as well as a Silver date hybrid palm.

                                      http://www.solos-art.com

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                                        sepo
                                        last edited by

                                        Chango... this collection is still very, very cheap. Just compare with anything out there. Never mind the pain bringing it from 3ds to SU.
                                        Solo I hope you plan to bring some trees as well.

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                                          chango70
                                          last edited by

                                          I agree. Just bemoaning how much the Pound have droped in the last half a year. Great work I love them!

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                                            troyhome
                                            last edited by

                                            @ecuadorian said:

                                            Thank you very much for releasing this wonderful collection, Master Solo. I put these plants to work immediately. Rendered in Kerkythea, post-processed in Photoshop. I hope my client likes it 😉 .
                                            [attachment=0:2sybgoe7]<!-- ia0 -->Watercolor.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2sybgoe7]

                                            And I also hope the Washingtonia palm is high on your list for Vol. 2 😄 .

                                            First of all, Solo, AMAZING STUFF! I will be purchasing your first pack for sure. Second, Ecuadorian, can you give us a tut on how you achieved the watercolor effect in ps?

                                            IOviz.com
                                            SU Pro 2024 PC

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