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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

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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!
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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
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                    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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                        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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                                • pbacotP Offline
                                  pbacot
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    @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

                                      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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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • davidmreinboldD Offline
                                          davidmreinbold
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks Pilou, I double checked that hidden files are shown. Searched the whole system. I am having the same issue with one other program plugin called LumenRT. Can't put my finger on it...

                                          Thanks anyway

                                          Cheers

                                          David

                                          @pilou said:

                                          @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

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            And the search engine of Windows refind nothing on the 2015 where you have vizualizer working?

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

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