Twilight v1.1

EscapeArtist · 17 Nov 2009, 04:01

This is a bit OT, but I downloaded the demo and gave SU/Twilight a shot. Slick & easy interface. One question that's bugging me; I noticed several folks used twilight to render in the "Render This :SSS" thread, and came up with smooth surfaces. I rendered a cube & sphere similar to the ones in the thread and wound up with a very faceted sphere, even with SD&S applied to it. I'm used to Kerkythea where I just select the material and tell it "smooth", what's the secret in TW?

Ecuadorian · 17 Nov 2009, 04:13

That happens from time to time; it's simply weird. Usually solved by just grouping the geometry or ticking "weld vertices" in the material editor. Of course, you'll get better replies from the tech support guys (Fletch, Chris and Frederik) if you post in the TWL forum.

xrok1 · 17 Nov 2009, 04:57

@unknownuser said:

Of course, you'll get better replies from the tech support guys (Fletch, Chris and Frederik) if you post in the TWL forum.

i think there are more twilight users here than there. take YOU for example. No.1 tech support guru.

halroach · 17 Nov 2009, 09:53

Sounds Good!

I just recently started twilighting around... keep them updates coming! fun fun!

chango70 · 17 Nov 2009, 11:26

How do I update then?

Frederik · 17 Nov 2009, 11:44

@chango70 said:

How do I update then?

Simply install it on top of previous versions...

chango70 · 17 Nov 2009, 11:50

Download the demo version?

halroach · 17 Nov 2009, 12:23

@chango70 said:

Download the demo version?

Yes, download the demo. it worked for me.

I was confused with that too... I think the website should be clearer about how updates are obtained and installed

Frederik · 17 Nov 2009, 12:43

@unknownuser said:

I think the website should be clearer about how updates are obtained and installed

Fair point...
I will make sure that we do it better in the future...

Although Chris posted this announcement here at the SCF, I recommend that users always search about things on the TWR Forum ...
Posts here at the SCF should be seen as a service, similar to how other applications are posting such announcements...

Please see the Version 1.1 thread...

chango70 · 18 Nov 2009, 07:46

Downloaded v1.1 demo, installed it, my license is gone. It says i have a demo version now. What the hell?

remus · 18 Nov 2009, 08:03

Are you still running the very first version by any chance? i remember having a similar problem after my first upgrade (to a maintenance release.)

You can easily get another license through the usual method by the way, its just a bit of a faff.

Frederik · 18 Nov 2009, 08:47

@chango70 said:

Downloaded v1.1 demo, installed it, my license is gone. It says i have a demo version now. What the hell?

I can only assume that you didn't have the latest version (ver. 1.0.19)
installed...

Any way... Unless you're installing TWR on another computer or have upgraded the OS, you can simply use and install the license key you've received previously...
(If you haven't got this anymore, you need to request a new license key...)

Ecuadorian · 18 Nov 2009, 11:56

@chango70 said:

Downloaded v1.1 demo, installed it, my license is gone. It says i have a demo version now. What the hell?

Chango, I can easily see the reason in your OS info: You're running Vista 64-bit and according to the new version announcement, those running Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit might have to re-request their licenses only if they never upgraded to TWL 1.0.19 (which introduced a change in licensing for 64-bit OSs), which seems to be your case.

BTW, has anyone noticed this is already the fourth TWL release? You should check the forum more often, TWL moves really fast.

david_h · 18 Nov 2009, 15:33

I downloaded and installed but when I went to the TW Options/About menu it still reads version 1.0. Am I doing something wrong here?

Ecuadorian · 18 Nov 2009, 15:37

Do you have more than one SketchUp version installed on your hard drive? Perhaps you installed it on the other one.

david_h · 18 Nov 2009, 15:46

No. . ..it seems to create a file tree plugins/twilight/twilight with duplicate files in each. I try to copy one over the other and it won't let me. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled but it doesn't fix it.

D

Oops! I figgered it out.

Thx,
D

chango70 · 18 Nov 2009, 18:31

Thanks guys I sent off the license request again. Hope it works!

Fletch · 20 Nov 2009, 11:27

David, please post this question at Twilight's forum, you will have your answer quite quickly I imagine.

Fletch · 20 Nov 2009, 23:13

Yes, to update your version of Twilight Render for Google SketchUp, simply download the new demo from the download section of http://twilightrender.com or from the Update V1.1 thread, and install over the top of your current version. If you already have a license it will NOT need to be re-requested. (except possibly with some 64bit systems)

Please note especially something most people didn't notice:

License deliveryhas changed slightly so that the email will hopefully not be blocked any more by some email admin systems.
Save rendered images as EXR = OpenEXR (.exr) the High Dynamic Range image type developed by Industrial Lights and Magic. It can be used for many things, but some users like it for use with programs such as Motiva SOAP "

@unknownuser said:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEXR )":3eobmx9c]OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), released under a free software license similar to the BSD license.

It is notable for supporting 16-bits-per-channel floating point values (half precision), with a sign bit, five bits of exponent, and a ten-bit mantissa. This allows a dynamic range of over thirty stops of exposure.

Both lossless and lossy compression of high dynamic range data is also supported.[1]

Most importantly the new View Setup Tool exclusive to Twilight really guarantees you will see exactly what you will render, and be able to pick a focal point any where in your scene, making setting up DOF extremely easy and fun.