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    • W Offline
      willanie
      last edited by

      another example ... this one took about 35 minutes to render on my desktop
      a couple of the fireflies weren't removed by the despeckle mode but it still looks pretty nice
      le_gia.0840.png

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      • cottyC Offline
        cotty
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        Yes, very nice!
        πŸ‘

        my SketchUp gallery

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        • pbacotP Offline
          pbacot
          last edited by

          I looked at the enhanced material settings. Which is best for car paint? The metal settings are too metallic. Plastic doesn't quite make it.

          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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            driven
            last edited by

            you can link them together for different effects e.g. shiny_plastic, shiny-tile...

            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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            • Mike LuceyM Offline
              Mike Lucey
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              I've been using Visualizer since it first launched. It suits me as I'm not really into spending any time on producing renders. I was disappointed when they announced that they would not be further developing the application but at least they made the current version free to use.

              A couple of days ago I came across AmbientOcclusion for SketchUp http://www.ambientocclusion-sketchup.com

              Its much like Visualizer, couple of clicks and after a few minutes you have a render. It also offers the option of rendering in the SketchUp viewport which I rather like as against rendering in a window. After seeing the first in-viewport render I thought that Trimble SketchUp should buy this app and include it in SketchUp Pro ........ just a thought. It definitely would distance SketchUp Pro from SketchUp Make!

              There are two versions of AmbientOcclusion, Lite at $39 which only produces mono renders and Pro at $89 that does color, textures and depth-of-field effects.

              Its expensive when compared to Visualizer, originally at $20 and now free, but I think the output quality is far superior to Visualizer in far less time, just a few minutes for me in most cases, quite impressive.

              I have emailed the developers and they advise that they have lighting among other features on the 'to do' list. Hopefully they will keep improving the plugin without making it bloated.

              Here is a Visualizer and AmbientOcclusion render of a little project I'm working on. Both renders were done in around 3 minutes and I spent zero time fiddling around with settings.


              Vizualizer Output


              AmbientOcclusion Output

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              • W Offline
                willanie
                last edited by

                I do like the added shape detail provided by the ambient occlusion shading. Can you get reflections?

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                • pbacotP Offline
                  pbacot
                  last edited by

                  Thanks, I thought so but I wasn't sure it was doing anything. I'll experiment more. I need reflections for exterior shots. I'd like to see more AO than Visualizer but not quite happy with what I see in the AO 4 SU app. If I want to spend more time, I go to Twilight.

                  BTW with the poor materials window on Mac Sketchup, it is still slow and tedious just to change material names to try different effects.

                  MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                  • Mike LuceyM Offline
                    Mike Lucey
                    last edited by

                    @willanie said:

                    I do like the added shape detail provided by the ambient occlusion shading. Can you get reflections?

                    I think so Will. Attached is an image from the AO site which shows reflections. I have not tried it out yet.


                    house1-bw.jpg

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      For SU 2016 (Visualizer yet installed on SU 2015)
                      Installation don't work directly ! 😲
                      (I suppose that is working directly if Visualizer don't yet installed!)

                      A little trick! (For Windows 8.1 - I don't know Mac's world! )
                      Make this new folder Plugins (don't existing because 2016 is new and empty)
                      and copy past from the ProgramData / SU 2015:
                      Folder ImaginationVisualizer and file ImaginationVisualizer.rb
                      That's all! πŸ€“

                      You must have that! πŸ˜„

                      Viz2016.jpg

                      Works like a charm! 😎 And works in duplication 2015 2016 ! πŸ€“
                      viz2.jpg

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                        driven
                        last edited by

                        on a mac just move /copy the folder and file into the User plugin folder and it works fine...

                        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                        • W Offline
                          willanie
                          last edited by

                          Great! ... I was wondering if making it work for 2016 was as easy as that.
                          thanks

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                          • pbacotP Offline
                            pbacot
                            last edited by

                            Has anyone had luck with pool water for enhanced materials? With a texture you get ripples, but the pool water only comes out very dark blue for me, not good for swimming pools. "Water" texture under NON enhanced textures looks OK but no ripples.

                            MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                              willanie
                              last edited by

                              Hi pbacot,

                              You can use a png image with an alpha channel that is less than 1.0 or 255

                              Here is an example.


                              test_save.0738.png

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                              • pbacotP Offline
                                pbacot
                                last edited by

                                Thanks! So the trick is the texture?

                                MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  http://getvisualizer.com/blog/glass-water-and-reflections.html πŸ˜‰

                                  http://visualizervf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/13544449/583359052.jpg

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    And with the 2016 it's very more easy because there are some new Materials !!! πŸ˜‰

                                    So nothing to do! 😎

                                    water.jpg

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                    • pilouP Offline
                                      pilou
                                      last edited by

                                      Nothing to do, just wait 10 secondes for undarkness! πŸ˜„
                                      water2.jpg

                                      So you can re-import it in the 2015 and render if needing! πŸ˜„
                                      water3.jpg

                                      WIth Ivy πŸ˜‰
                                      water4.jpg

                                      Frenchy Pilou
                                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                      My Little site :)

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                                      • pbacotP Offline
                                        pbacot
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks Pilou! That might make DL 2016 worthwhile. (I have to update Mac OS--2016 does not work on Lion I think.)

                                        MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                          frankwil
                                          last edited by

                                          Can anyone expound on getting Visualizer to work in Sketchup 2016 for Mac OS X? I'm seeing no plugins, or folders for that matter, anywhere inside Sketchup 2015 that I can identify as belonging to visualizer, though I know it's there and is working for that version of SU. My problem is that I've just drawn some fairly complex models in SU 2016, but can't get visualizer to work after a normal install, and don't want to have to recreate them in SU 2015.

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                                          • jujuJ Offline
                                            juju
                                            last edited by

                                            @frankwil said:

                                            My problem is that I've just drawn some fairly complex models in SU 2016, but can't get visualizer to work after a normal install, and don't want to have to recreate them in SU 2015.

                                            Unfortunately I can't help with the earlier part of your query, but you should be able save the SU2016 file as a SU2015 file without any trouble at all, no need to recreate the model...

                                            Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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