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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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            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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                            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...

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                                    beacharch
                                    last edited by

                                    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

                                      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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                                        beacharch
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks, that worked fine!

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                                        • minimalexM Offline
                                          minimalex
                                          last edited by

                                          Attempting to get Visualizer to work on 2016 OS X. I am getting this error message:

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Error Loading File ImaginationVisualizer/iv_localization
                                          Could not find included file 'ImaginationVisualizer/iv_localization'
                                          Error Loading File ImaginationVisualizer.rb
                                          Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `TRANSLATE' for ImgTecVis:Module>

                                          At first the files didn't copy correctly, but even after I made sure they were I got this message. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks!

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                                            willanie
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi minimalex,

                                            Have you managed to get Visualizer working with Sketchup2016. If not I have some questions.
                                            Is Visualizer working with previous versions of Sketchup?
                                            Did you recently upgrade the OS X version? What OS X version are you running?
                                            I'm a bit confused by your description of the copy procedure. What went wrong initially and how are you confirming that required ruby file and folder is now correctly copied?

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