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    • daleD Offline
      dale
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      Can anyone tell me what it is capable of exporting? Is it possible to take it to other rendering engines, Thea in my case?

      Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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      • KrisidiousK Offline
        Krisidious
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        scenes can be exported in .3ds format... also lightwave files types can be exported.

        By: Kristoff Rand
        Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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        • KrisidiousK Offline
          Krisidious
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          ok... this is the most kick ass program I have seen in ages... it's like finding SketchUp all over again...

          5 minutes in Vue
          Beach3.jpg

          who needs anything else besides SketchUp and Vue?

          it's incredible... it's fast... it's powerful... it's intuitive... it's like someone stole my brain and squished out all the dreams I ever had for rendering my houses and put it all in a program....

          best of all it makes me look like a fricking genius.

          By: Kristoff Rand
          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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          • D Offline
            dburdick
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            Hi Guys,

            Dave Burdick here - VP of Marketing at e-on Software. I met some of you at Training Camp. I just want to claify a few things and let you know about some special offers we have just put out for the Sketchup crowd:

            1. The new Sketchup to Vue Exporter plugin will not work with the low-end, Enthusiast versions of Vue (e.g. Pioneer and Frontier). It requires Vue Esprit or above.

            2. We put together a couple of very nice architectural solution package deals which combines Vue Studio or Vue Complete with the new Sketchup to Vue Exporter plugin. The prices are really attractive 50% off the standard price. You can find out more about these solutions here:

            favicon

            (www.e-onsoftware.com)

            This is a short time offer that will probably only last until the middle of next month(sorry for the shameless plug).

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            • coulteriC Offline
              coulteri
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              How is it with "face-camera components"? Is this plugin able to convert them into "face-camera" entities in VUE?

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              • KrisidiousK Offline
                Krisidious
                last edited by

                Coulteri.... I don't know that you would ever need or want face me components again with Vue...

                it's such a complete ecosystem designer... there's no reason for faceme stuff.

                you don't need to have any trees or plants in your model when you export it to Vue.

                simply design the land as a mesh... then when you export to Vue you can change that mesh into an entire eco-system of your choosing.

                By: Kristoff Rand
                Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                • D Offline
                  dburdick
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                  @coulteri said:

                  How is it with "face-camera components"? Is this plugin able to convert them into "face-camera" entities in VUE?

                  Hi Coulteri. We haven't implemented what you call "Face me" billboards in the exporter but Vue has the ability to do this with what we call "camera billboards". Our thinking was that most SU users would want to convert things like trees and veg to into actual 3D ecosystems in Vue. If you think this is important, we can add this.

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                  • KrisidiousK Offline
                    Krisidious
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                    @unknownuser said:

                    Our thinking was that most SU users would want to convert things like trees and veg to into actual 3D ecosystems in Vue. If you think this is important, we can add this.

                    yes that would be very cool...

                    By: Kristoff Rand
                    Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                      Krisidious
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                      dburdick

                      I noticed someone on youtube with Vue and their's said 16cpus at the bottom... where my lowly computer says 2cpus... what CPU is he running?

                      By: Kristoff Rand
                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      • soloS Offline
                        solo
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                        Dave,

                        I have not had much time to play with this, I did finally install it this weekend and give it a whirl.

                        I'd like to see Vue open up on export or at least a dialogue asking if we want to open Vue on export, that way the whole python sync can be automated.

                        http://www.solos-art.com

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

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                        • soloS Offline
                          solo
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                          @unknownuser said:

                          what CPU is he running?

                          Dual Xeons

                          http://www.solos-art.com

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

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                            dburdick
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                            @solo said:

                            Dave,

                            I have not had much time to play with this, I did finally install it this weekend and give it a whirl.

                            I'd like to see Vue open up on export or at least a dialogue asking if we want to open Vue on export, that way the whole python sync can be automated.

                            Hi Pete,

                            Good idea on the launching of Vue after export. We are looking at the idea of perhaps allowing a .VOB file to auto-load a Python script (or include an embedded Python script)as well. Thanks

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                            • EarthMoverE Offline
                              EarthMover
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                              @dburdick said:

                              @coulteri said:

                              How is it with "face-camera components"? Is this plugin able to convert them into "face-camera" entities in VUE?

                              Hi Coulteri. We haven't implemented what you call "Face me" billboards in the exporter but Vue has the ability to do this with what we call "camera billboards". Our thinking was that most SU users would want to convert things like trees and veg to into actual 3D ecosystems in Vue. If you think this is important, we can add this.

                              I would find this invaluable as I use a mix of 2D and 3D plants when doing actualized landscape design. There is just not enough 3D available to meet the thousands of plants in my design repertoire.

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

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                              • BurkhardB Offline
                                Burkhard
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                                Hi dburdick, I purchased, but get an endless loop by trying to register.
                                I have an account but can't get the synchronisation to run because it ends into the Authorisation code, which seems not possible to generate...
                                and back... One of the messages: # This product has already been activated on another user account.

                                ๐Ÿ˜‰
                                " Please feel free to contact technical support " if you have any trouble....but how?
                                No forum available, no mail available to get feedback. Any other suggestions?

                                [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                                • KrisidiousK Offline
                                  Krisidious
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                                  I've seen your work EarthMover... you're the only one here who doesn't need this program... that being said... you're gonna absolutely love it.

                                  if you look at my render above, the only thing in there plant wise that came from SU is that palm tree coming out of the house. and it was 3D...

                                  By: Kristoff Rand
                                  Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                    d12dozr
                                    last edited by

                                    Relighting...coming in Vue 9!
                                    YouTube - Relighting Vue 9
                                    [flash=480,385:1mph7uq3]http://www.youtube.com/v/6DdMJSknzW0?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:1mph7uq3]

                                    3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                                    http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                                      dburdick
                                      last edited by

                                      @burkhard said:

                                      Hi dburdick, I purchased, but get an endless loop by trying to register.
                                      I have an account but can't get the synchronisation to run because it ends into the Authorisation code, which seems not possible to generate...
                                      and back... One of the messages: # This product has already been activated on another user account.

                                      ๐Ÿ˜‰
                                      " Please feel free to contact technical support " if you have any trouble....but how?
                                      No forum available, no mail available to get feedback. Any other suggestions?

                                      Hi Burkhard,

                                      I'm not sure I understand what the problem is so forgive me. Are you saying you purchased the Sketchup to Vue Exporter Plugin but can't get it registered? The Plugin does not require registration. It only requires that you have a copy of Vue. Can you be more specific about exactly what the problem is. Please feel free to e-mail me at dburdick@e-onsoftware.com

                                      Thanks

                                      Dave

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                                      • EarthMoverE Offline
                                        EarthMover
                                        last edited by

                                        Bought the plugin and it's definitely a time saver.

                                        My wish list would be -

                                        1. Convert Sketchup "Faceme" components to Vue Billboard Face Camera
                                        2. Translate Sketchup Layers to Vue Layers
                                        3. Convert Sketchup Scenes to Vue Cameras
                                        4. The ability to create Vue lights within Sketchup. Perhaps by creating a Sketchup Sphere and naming is Vue_Omni, this could be read by the exporter and the sphere replaced with a Vue light. I just find it easier to navigate and add things in Sketchup. Adding 30+ lights in Vue tends to be a tedious task.

                                        Great job otherwise and thanks for thinking of us lowly SU users! โ˜€

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

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                                        • D Offline
                                          dburdick
                                          last edited by

                                          @earthmover said:

                                          Bought the plugin and it's definitely a time saver.

                                          My wish list would be -

                                          1. Convert Sketchup "Faceme" components to Vue Billboard Face Camera
                                          2. Translate Sketchup Layers to Vue Layers
                                          3. Convert Sketchup Scenes to Vue Cameras
                                          4. The ability to create Vue lights within Sketchup. Perhaps by creating a Sketchup Sphere and naming is Vue_Omni, this could be read by the exporter and the sphere replaced with a Vue light. I just find it easier to navigate and add things in Sketchup. Adding 30+ lights in Vue tends to be a tedious task.

                                          Great job otherwise and thanks for thinking of us lowly SU users! โ˜€

                                          Great suggestions - thanks for this.
                                          (1) Is absolutely doable and in the plan
                                          (2) Layers in Vue work a bit differently in Vue than in Sketchup. In Sketchup, you can spread a model across different layers. In Vue, Layers are used to manage scene elements (e.g. multiple models, lights, vegetation, ecosystems, etc). So typically, a single model will only exisit on a single layer. We could build a script to distribute the model elements by layer in Vue but I'm not sure that would be useful to you.
                                          (3) Doable and already in the works. We are going to have a very nice automated animation interface between Sketchup and Vue in the next version of the plugin.
                                          (4) We thought about this, but felt that it wouldn't be too useful unless we could provide some real-time preview in Sketchup of how the lights would look in Vue. Otherwise, you could spend a lot of your time going back and forth between the apps to "tune" the lighting. Thoughts?

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                                          • KrisidiousK Offline
                                            Krisidious
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                                            I've gotten a few errors when trying to import a SU model... Vue says can't read the file.

                                            so removed all the materials. and tried again... the model came in with ease.

                                            I wonder what Vue doesn't like in way of materials? maybe if the material that was on the model when it was made is not found? Vue has said that before but it also asked if I wanted to locate and did so with out error.

                                            anyway no biggy...

                                            I think I'm gonna delete all my renders now.

                                            By: Kristoff Rand
                                            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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