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    pbacot
    last edited by 11 Oct 2015, 18:23

    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 11 Oct 2015, 20:34

      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 Lucey
        last edited by 11 Oct 2015, 21:51

        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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          willanie
          last edited by 11 Oct 2015, 23:40

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

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            pbacot
            last edited by 12 Oct 2015, 01:01

            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 Lucey
              last edited by 12 Oct 2015, 01:05

              @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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                pilou
                last edited by 20 Nov 2015, 02:58

                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

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                Is beautiful that please without concept!
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                  driven
                  last edited by 20 Nov 2015, 03:36

                  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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                    willanie
                    last edited by 20 Nov 2015, 06:41

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

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                      pbacot
                      last edited by 24 Nov 2015, 05:25

                      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 24 Nov 2015, 07:24

                        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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                          pbacot
                          last edited by 24 Nov 2015, 07:55

                          Thanks! So the trick is the texture?

                          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                            pilou
                            last edited by 24 Nov 2015, 10:50

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

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

                            Frenchy Pilou
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                              pilou
                              last edited by 24 Nov 2015, 11:08

                              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!
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                                pilou
                                last edited by 24 Nov 2015, 11:16

                                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

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                                  pbacot
                                  last edited by 24 Nov 2015, 16:44

                                  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 25 Nov 2015, 08:08

                                    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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                                      juju
                                      last edited by 25 Nov 2015, 09:23

                                      @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...

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                                        beacharch
                                        last edited by 4 Dec 2015, 14:58

                                        How can I get the APP to work on Mac OS X? I saw the earlier post and saw no answer. How can I get to work?

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                                          willanie
                                          last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 18:17

                                          Hi beacharch

                                          This approach assumes you have already installed Sketchup2015 or Sketchup2014 and Visualizer.

                                          After installing Sketchup2016
                                          dont start Sketchup2016 yet and go to folder
                                          /Library/Application Support/

                                          If there isn't one already create this folder hierarchy(exactly matching upper and lowercase)
                                          /Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2016/Sketchup/Plugins

                                          from /Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2015/Sketchup/Plugins
                                          copy these two items(one is a folder the other is a ruby file)
                                          ImaginationVisualizer
                                          ImaginationVisualizer.rb
                                          paste them into
                                          /Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2016/Sketchup/Plugins

                                          Now launch Sketchup2016 you should see Visualizer under the Extensions pull-down.
                                          If Visualizer doesn't show up in the Extensions pull-down
                                          click on
                                          Sketchup->Preferences->Extensions
                                          you should see Visualizer with an unchecked toggle box ... check that toggle on
                                          close the preferences window

                                          and Bob's your uncle Visualizer running in Sketchup2016
                                          (you may have to relaunch Sketchup)

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