[Plugin] Physically-Based Rendering - v1.5.9 - 19 Apr. 2020

samuel_t

Hi, I have one question.
What is stopping you in developing this plugin as synced rendering plugin for Sketchup (or maybe as an overlay to SU window)? Is this far-fetched for me to think like this?

At dev. beginning, I've thinked about a PBR Viewport synced with SketchUp...
That implies using internal browser but external browser is more up-to-date.

JQL

Thea has viewport rendering which, for single monitors brings sketchup to life. Your plugin, as it is realtime, would be amazing with viewport rendering.

nlipovac

Right like that JQL, I am quite impressed by this plugin and like to Blender is Eevee this would be a great plugin for SU if it would be implemented as an overlay to SU.

samuel_t

@nlipovac said:

Right like that JQL, I am quite impressed by this plugin and like to Blender is Eevee this would be a great plugin for SU if it would be implemented as an overlay to SU.

By "overlay", you mean a top window a bit like PBR Material Editor? Fullscreen or splitscreen?

nlipovac

This is Thea rendering in SU window, the same thing Vray have also.

nlipovac

@nlipovac said:

This is Thea rendering in SU window, the same thing Vray have also.

nlipovac

It was just an idea, thank you for this that you already accomplished with this plugin.

samuel_t

Overlay feature request is out of my skills for now. Maybe another dev can, since code is open-source.

samuel_t

Thank you for your idea.

JQL

I will talk about this case with someone...

samuel_t

@jql said:

Thea has viewport rendering which, for single monitors brings sketchup to life. Your plugin, as it is realtime, would be amazing with viewport rendering.

Yeah. There is an expensive workaround: to buy several monitors. More seriously, I will try to find a way to synchronize PBR Viewport with SketchUp.

filibis

@samuel_t said:

Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow!

Take a look at these websites for free (CC0) textures: Pixel-Furnace, CC0Textures, freepbr. You can provide link to these sites maybe?

I think you should indicate that we need to open a collection to use PBR materials you provided. People may not find PBR folder you generated easily.

In addition to 'saving, opening and creating' a model, when we "apply all changes" in the PBR material editor, Chromium pops-up and updates the view as well.

HDR images working fine Can we rotate them somehow? That would be cool

samuel_t

@filibis said:

@samuel_t said:

Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow!

Take a look at these websites for free (CC0) textures: Pixel-Furnace, CC0Textures, freepbr. You can provide link to these sites maybe?

Hello filibis, thanks a lot for these links.

@filibis said:

I think you should indicate that we need to open a collection to use PBR materials you provided. People may not find PBR folder you generated easily.

I added following sentence in official README:
Additionally, you should have a new "PBR" materials collection in "Materials" tray. Enjoy!

@filibis said:

In addition to 'saving, opening and creating' a model, when we "apply all changes" in the PBR material editor, Chromium pops-up and updates the view as well.

You are right. I forgot to mention this case.

@filibis said:

HDR images working fine Can we rotate them somehow? That would be cool

I don't understand. You want to rotate HDRi?

filibis

@samuel_t said:

I don't understand. You want to rotate HDRi?

Yes. Rotating the HDRi 360° will change the lighting directions since HDRis gather light intensity from the brightness of pixel colours. Thus normal maps will behave accordingly.

Something like this:

Or simply to change background view:

samuel_t

I understand now. Thanks for the trick!

samuel_t

A new version is available, 1.3.2.

Add macOS support. Test n' report.
Add 2 new materials in PBR library.

samuel_t

A new version is available, 1.3.3.

Add exposure control in Viewport.

Exposure

Add one material to "PBR" library.
Disable Viewport update on save.
It was too slow. I recommend to set a shortcut for menu entry "Force Viewport Update".

Shortcut

peerman

Hi, I really want to test this plugin but when I install the plugin (or after restarting SU) I get the message that Chromium cannot be found "Get latest". I'm working on a Mac. I can change materials but force viewport update crashed SU. I'm also not sure how I can start a render? Is that the force viewport update or am I missing something. The help page on github is not really helping as well.

I hope you can help/fix. The plugin looks promissing! Thanks!

Best,
Peter

samuel_t

@peerman said:

Hi, I really want to test this plugin but when I install the plugin (or after restarting SU) I get the message that Chromium cannot be found "Get latest". I'm working on a Mac. I can change materials but force viewport update crashed SU. I'm also not sure how I can start a render? Is that the force viewport update or am I missing something. The help page on github is not really helping as well.

I hope you can help/fix. The plugin looks promissing! Thanks!

Best,
Peter

Hi Peter,

Viewport use Chromium. Viewport opens automatically.
I don't have a Mac, this is why its support may be buggy.

It seems you have a problem related to path or chmod.
Please open Ruby Console in SketchUp and paste this:

PBR;;Chromium.executable

Then give me back console answer with a screenshot.

Thanks!

samuel_t

Hello. PBR plugin version 1.3.1 is available.

What's new?

Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow!
When you ~~save,~~ open or create a model: Viewport is automatically updated.
Technically, nginx Web server has been replaced by Chromium Web browser.

As part of an update, remember to disable plugin before uninstalling-reinstalling it.