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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

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              Is beautiful that please without concept!
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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

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                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

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
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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...

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

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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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                              beacharch
                              last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 18:39

                              Thanks, that worked fine!

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                                minimalex
                                last edited by 10 Dec 2015, 15:33

                                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 14 Dec 2015, 19:04

                                  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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                                    pbacot
                                    last edited by 2 Jan 2016, 20:43

                                    So with SU 2016 have Viusalizer working. But Pool water seems a problem still and Visualizer seems to be very slow in 2016. How many hours do you have to wait for the pool water to become transparent? Do you get the result as in the attached?


                                    VIZ_0065.png

                                    MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                      pilou
                                      last edited by 2 Jan 2016, 22:59

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      How many hours do you have to wait for the pool water to become transparent?

                                      ???
                                      It's quasi instantaneous (10 seconds) if you use the transparent water material of the 2016 as shown on my previous post! πŸ˜„
                                      I am on PC but seems that must be the same on MAC!

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

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                                      • davidmreinboldD Offline
                                        davidmreinbold
                                        last edited by 6 Jan 2016, 07:33

                                        Hi Pilou & everybody

                                        I am just in the process of upgrading from SU2015 to SU2016 and stumbled across your work around for migrating the now unsupported Visualizer over. Visualizer is working fine on (Win7) SU2015 however I cannot find the folder you have mentioned ImaginationVisualizer nor the ruby file ImaginationVisualizer.rb in my SU2015 file structure.

                                        There is nothing other than a folder called 1.3.13 which I believe was the last and final Version of Visualizer. It is located (Sketchup2015 > Plugins > 1.3.13) and has some further sub folders (Bin/Doc/System)that each have some Visualizer files in them, but no visualizer.rb file to be found anywhere on the system...yet Visualizer works a charm on my SU2015. Tried to copy the 1.3.13 folder into the SU2016 setup but no luck... Is this a Windows 7 thing? 😲

                                        Any help to get it to work appreciated

                                        @pilou said:

                                        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˜„

                                        [attachment=1:uwdo1rw4]<!-- ia1 -->Viz2016.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:uwdo1rw4]

                                        Works like a charm! 😎 And works in duplication 2015 2016 ! πŸ€“
                                        [attachment=0:uwdo1rw4]<!-- ia0 -->viz2.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:uwdo1rw4]

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                                          pilou
                                          last edited by 6 Jan 2016, 09:28

                                          @David
                                          Sorry I can't say more than my previous image! (I am on Windoows 8.1)
                                          You have not this ProgramData folder? (Different than user/Appdata/ folder)
                                          and this Plugins folder is also different than the normal Plugins folder!!!
                                          Have you enable Show hidden files in your WIndows system ?

                                          http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=134760&t=1

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

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