Enscape for Sketchup

ntxdave

Hope you guys get it working. I think you are going to like it. Building renders and movies go really fast.

jenujacob

I updated my drivers on Thursday to the newest ones and still it crashes.

I updated my windows OS along side.... dont know if that helped my case though!! Hope u get it installed pete! I am sure u will enjoy using it as much as i do! Hope to put out some renders and a video and try and win that competition!!!

ntxdave

@jenujacob said:

Hope u get it installed pete! I am sure u will enjoy using it as much as i do! Hope to put out some renders and a video and try and win that competition!!!

I am not on Facebook or Instagram so I cannot enter but I do not think my stuff is good enough to win anyway.

I can still have fun with the soft way anyway

solo

Updating to OS actually worked, well maybe not update but revert to the last 'public' version. If you know what I mean.

solo

Pretty cool, lacks a ton of features but not bad as a quick tool.

ntxdave

I need to learn hoe do landscaping around my models.

I thought the rendering was the fastest of any tool I have tried/used. Creating the movie was really fast too.

Yes, a long way to go but it sure looks to me like it has a lot of potential given that this is only an alpha version.

xone

Wow this.... impressive software! Very limited as in Alpha now, but looks very very promising.

Just playing around with two high poly model: https://www.facebook.com/digitalifeless/videos/vb.100000599179250/1612788205417803/?type=2%26amp;theater%26amp;notif_t=video_processed%26amp;notif_id=1488795901034718

nickchun

Can't get it to work either. Loaded and updated through extension manager. When I try to run it I get the egg timer of death, and then crash on mouse click

jenujacob

I tried making a video using this... pretty straight forward... hope they put in more tools and controls!!

Youtube Video

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solo

Playing around.

Youtube Video

nlipovac

This is awesome, half way to Lumion and few steps in front of Lumion when it comes what is it offering. What i do not like is subscription based licence. Far best type of subscription for me have Allegorithmic with Substance live Rent-to-own type of licence. Maybe this 45$/month could be like that?

ntxdave

@jenujacob & Pete, thanks for posting your videos. I like them and think they show some potential with Enscape. I saw another video (could not find it for this post but if I find it I will post it) that showed some additional things related to animation, moving characters and etc. If they bring that to the SU world that would be great.

If you go to their site and look at some of their tutorial videos they show some pretty neat stuff. In particular there was one showing them editing some materials that was pretty neat but that might really be just the way you can edit materials in Revit. If it is, they need to bring some of that to the SU world.

I also saw am Enscape video that included sound (I think it was one of the tutorials). There is also a link in their gallery where you can download one of the stand-alone Enscape models. That could be an interesting way for you to share your work with a client.

My biggest impression was the ability to view my model in both SU and Enscape simultaneously and how that connection made changes in SU show up in real-time in the Enscape window. I was also impressed with the speed of rendering and video creation.

ntxdave

I finally found the video:
Youtube Video

Look at the 0:04 mark for a few seconds but in particular, look at the end beginning at 5:58. If they bring these capabilities to SU that would be awesome.

jenujacob

Wow!!! Ntxdave... this would be awesome in sketchup!!!

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ntxdave

A couple more samples of rendered images. I am particularly happy with the quality of the metal in this image.

Sample Image 1
Sample Image 2 - slight problem with the texture of the wall at the end

I am having one problem with the plugin (but then again, this is just an alpha version). Every time I start SU, I get a message from the Extension Manager that there is an update for the plugin but when I click to update, nothing happens.

jenujacob

Hey Ntxdave!
The metal does work really well doesnt it?? And i get that message too and indeed it does nothing whrn i press update... i am sure its nothing to be bothered about. Just one of those things that need to be ironed out in future releases!

ntxdave

Big disappointment...I updated to the new version they released this morning and now I cannot create any images or videos. I have tried contacting them but since the support team is in Germany, I will not get any response back until tomorrow.

I hope this is just a hiccup and that it will get fixed tomorrow!!!

[highlight=#ff0000:207487zc]UPDATE[/highlight:207487zc]
OK everyone, you should now see a bright red glow from my face all around the world. I made a horrible mistake with the post above. I just discovered that there is now a 2nd toolbar for Enscape that is Enscape Capturing. It has all of the icons for capturing your screen as an image, video & panorama. I was 100% in error.

I left the original text just so everyone would see my stupid mistake if they installed the Enscape trial and saw the same thing I did.

ntxdave

Just tried a couple of panoramas with the latest version of Enscape for SketchUp:

Version 1
Version 2

Just changed the settings a little between the 2 versions (experimenting of course). IMO they could be a little sharper for I will keep trying to see what I can do with them.

jenujacob

Hi Dave!
Thanks for the heads up for the new version! i tried a quick pano with it [highlight=#004000:h0irar7x]here[/highlight:h0irar7x]!
Me like what i see... it works very well for my purpose! sure.. still missing more controls for the materials... but i am sure we will see it in due time!

cadmunkey

This looks great, as a current Lumion user I will watch this develop with interest.