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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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              • B Offline
                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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                • W Offline
                  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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                  • B Offline
                    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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                      • W Offline
                        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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                                      driven
                                      last edited by

                                      you could use 'Ruby Console' in SU v15 to find the path...

                                      Sketchup.find_support_file('ImaginationVisualizer', 'Plugins')
                                      

                                      john

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

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                                      • davidmreinboldD Offline
                                        davidmreinbold
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi Pilou & driven

                                        I have found the files now... they were under a different path in the user / roaming section

                                        I never really worked out why there are to storage paths for Sketchup extensions i.e. roaming or within Sketchup... hence my inconsistency with installing every extension in the same place.

                                        Thanks for your patience guys. πŸ‘

                                        Cheers

                                        David

                                        @pilou said:

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

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                                        • W Offline
                                          willanie
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi pbacot,

                                          I noticed your pool water image had lots of fireflies ... the small bright white dots ... which means you must be using the Visualizer enhanced mode.
                                          If you didn't already know there is a despeckle option which will remove them. They will however, return eventually if you let it render for many hours.
                                          See attached image for how to turn on despeckle.


                                          ENH_crop.png

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                                          • A Offline
                                            alexandercheyns
                                            last edited by

                                            The tutorial from visualizer shows a shaded car as png without background. However I keep having a gray background to all my renders. I've tried adjusting the background in styles and also checked the transparency button in visualizer but still I get gray backgrounds. Love visualizer sad to see it go

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