Twilight Render is Out

john.warburton · 26 Aug 2009, 12:25

SketchUp's unique ability to show a section cut

Not unique Fletch. MicroGDS has this, AND will preserve the cut when rendering (AND imports Sketchup SKP files.)

Fletch · 26 Aug 2009, 13:30

Thank you for the encouragement, xrok1 and EarthMover! glad you like it.

Thansk for the info, John! I learn something new every day!

There's a tutorial on doing Batch Rendering in Twilight in the Twilight Render User Manual v.1.0 on pg 35 in the Reference Section.

Hi xrok1!
I'm guessing (from past experience, and past posts I've read, not having to do with Twilight) it has to do how the face-me components' scale is being reported by SketchUp.

We will take a look at the scene to verify. (d/ling now)

meanwhile, I'm guessing you will need to explode the 'bad' guys, and re-group/componentize them...

Please join and post these questions to Twilight's forum in the future, as this is SketchUcation's forum and we want to respect that.

david_h · 26 Aug 2009, 14:02

@unknownuser said:

"the grass renders on top of the cabin

Just call it a green roof. or just say "it's not in the environment!"

david_h · 26 Aug 2009, 14:57

By the way. . .I must be doing something wrong. I tried to render a little house and all I got was this. . .with the Watermarks. It really sux.

avariant · 26 Aug 2009, 15:12

Nice... The name is a bit of... unfortunate... timing. It was picked long before the movie came out.

david_h · 26 Aug 2009, 15:14

Well the renderer is light years ahead of the movie. . . .

Actually I figured it out.. Wow! That was scary for a moment.

Fletch · 26 Aug 2009, 15:20

@unknownuser said:

...That was scary for a moment.

tip: The camera panel has the exposure control for you even while rendering the imageyou can adjust it.

Gaieus · 26 Aug 2009, 18:40

@unknownuser said:

By the way. . .I must be doing something wrong. I tried to render a little house and all I got was this. . .with the Watermarks. It really sux.

I wouldn't complain about'er (though "HE" is not my kind...)

rcossoli · 27 Aug 2009, 01:22

successful!!!!!
I have been able to charm this engine test renders, nothing more than successful and long life.

Gaieus · 4 Sept 2009, 12:09

I posted an interview with Fletch in The Daily CatchUp. Quite interesting especially at the end where he is talking about development and plans for further features (most of what can be read about on the Twilight Forums of course but for the lazy, "this will do", too)
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Ecuadorian · 4 Sept 2009, 13:35

My favorite thing of the interview is that they seem to be very open to user input... and that one of the two guys behind this is an architect himself.

Fletch · 9 Sept 2009, 12:28

Thanks guys, we are confident if people will try it, they will like it.

There are many video tutorials and a good user manual. For users that are intermediate or advanced in SketchUp who try it, in 30mins or less you will be rendering with Twilight.

sepo · 9 Sept 2009, 12:44

Hey Fletch ...what is the score with Rovinj? Don't tell me you are Croatian?

Gaieus · 10 Sept 2009, 05:11

Haha...

He's just living there for a change. Not a bad choice IMO (once I kick off in a business and don't have to work for a living any longer, I might also move to the Istria - or Dalmatia somewhere)

sepo · 10 Sept 2009, 08:48

It is an excellent choice. Istria is beautiful part of Croatia. Close to Italy ,Slovenia and Austria....very good choice.

Fletch · 10 Sept 2009, 14:42

Hi Sepo,
It's simple, my wife grew up here.
We lived in Milwaukee for 8 years, now it's "her turn"... we'll see how it goes here.
The up-side is that if you love spearfishing (which I do) it's great place to live.

sepo · 10 Sept 2009, 15:46

Good luck Fletch. It is lovely there. Good place for sailing as well. Also close to Austria and Slovenia for skiing. I think you will find that you will want to stay.

Fletch · 11 Sept 2009, 18:08

Being from Montana, skiing is my first love before spearfishing... so I will definitely check it out

kwistenbiebel · 13 Sept 2009, 10:24

Don't know about spearfishing ( ) but I just tried the Twilight demo and I must say: fabulous User Interface!!!!
I wasn't expecting such a nice workflow. It is simple yet elaborate.
Some great thinking behind it.

I especially like the render settings screen and most of all the simple material setup. Just clicking the mat in the viewport with the mat sampler and the mat editor shows up. Great stuff.
Also the tool hints that appear when hovering above are life savers. Features of Kerkythea that I never understood actually make more sense now .
I am happy to see that the real time tone mapper is there and working well.

Could the Twilight developers make a similar UI for Vray,Fry and Maxwell please?

And a little question while I am here: Is it possible to acces the render settings .xml file ?
Also, if I want to use unbiased animation (path tracing progressive), can I assign a maximum render time per frame? the default of 100 or 500 passes seems overkill for some scenes.

A quick try:

Gaieus · 13 Sept 2009, 11:45

Animation with progressive presets would indeed sound interesting.