Rayscaper Alpha Version Available

majid · 2 Jan 2024, 18:01

29% without any denoising and I believe it is good enough.
I stopped it on 49% progress and it seems good (despite without any denoising)

pixelcruncher · 3 Jan 2024, 13:57

@majid said:

It works charmingly!

It's great to see a talented artist like you taking an interest in Rayscaper! I saw you sent me some feedback, so I will go and digest that.

Cheers,
Thomas

jo-ke · 4 Jan 2024, 10:28

due to the sunset of twilghtrender I stumbled across this new alternative.

downloaded and licensed it today.

looks promissing....

jo-ke · 4 Jan 2024, 10:53

Is there a tutorial for glass and emitter materials?

Rich O Brien · 4 Jan 2024, 11:47

@jo-ke said:

Is there a tutorial for glass and emitter materials?

It has a Glass shader in the Material Type dropdown[1]

and for the Disney shader you can enable Emmission for geometry[2]

jo-ke · 4 Jan 2024, 16:06

Thank you: glas, is solved.

emitter not. with "blackbody emission" I don't get the submenu

also hidden layers are rendered. how can I avoid this?

pixelcruncher · 4 Jan 2024, 16:21

@unknownuser said:

emitter not. with "blackbody emission" I don't get the submenu

You should be able to to open the submenu by clicking the chevron or text (1). You can expand everything by clicking the plus button (2):

@unknownuser said:

also hidden layers are rendered. how can I avoid this?

Hidden objects / tags / layers isn't supported yet in the alpha version. It will be there for the 1.0 version.

Cheers,
Thomas

jo-ke · 4 Jan 2024, 16:50

thank you. I didn't see this. solutions are so simple....

next problems:

is it possible to do an emitter with textures? like in my example the sign of the tramway?

why can't I get rid of the blue textures? they are textured in SU and all faces are frontfaces

pixelcruncher · 4 Jan 2024, 17:41

@jo-ke said:

is it possible to do an emitter with textures? like in my example the sign of the tramway?

This is also planned for one of the upcoming releases but it's not there yet.

@jo-ke said:

why can't I get rid of the blue textures? they are textured in SU and all faces are frontfaces

Hmm, this usually means that the face doesn't have a material assigned to it. Or the image textures couldn't be found.

Can you select the material in the Rayscaper viewport with the material picker?

Once, selected can you try to reload the material via the reload button? This will refresh the material, resetting it to the latest changes made in SketchUp.

If all that fails, can you send me the scene? You can zip up the scene with all Rayscaper settings and textures using the following button on the Rayscaper toolbar:

You can either send me a private message or send it to thomas@rayscaper.com .

I appreciate your patience!

Cheers,
Thomas

jo-ke · 4 Jan 2024, 19:10

I installed your app at my notebook at home.

unfortunately sketchup is crashing after using your plugin...

maybe my notebook is to old...

everytime i load a file worked with your app sketchup crushes.

I removed your plugin and fortunately sketchup works again.

so I have to ry tomorrow in the office.

pixelcruncher · 4 Jan 2024, 19:25

@jo-ke said:

I installed your app at my notebook at home.

unfortunately sketchup is crashing after using your plugin...

maybe my notebook is to old...

everytime i load a file worked with your app sketchup crushes.

I removed your plugin and fortunately sketchup works again.

so I have to ry tomorrow in the office.

Yikes, that's not good! Sorry about that.

Rayscaper creates a log file under your home directory named SUEX_Rayscaper.log (e.g., C:/Users/Thomas Loockx/SUEX_Rayscaper.log). Do you mind getting me that file?
What version of SU are you using?

jo-ke · 4 Jan 2024, 20:10

I am using 23.1.340 64 bits

arguments; SUEX_Rayscaper
Current dir; C;\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp
File verbosity level; 0
date       time         ( uptime  ) [ thread name/id ]                   file;line     v| 
2024-01-04 20;15;43.430 (   0.034s) [main thread     ]             loguru.cpp;770   INFO| Logging to 'C;\Users\Kehlj/SUEX_Rayscaper.log', mode; 'w', verbosity; 0
2024-01-04 20;15;43.613 (   0.218s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;73    INFO| Running Rayscaper version 0.7.3
2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.218s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;74    INFO| System info; Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (4 cores), 31 GB ram
2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.218s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;75    INFO| OS info; Windows 10 (64-bit)
2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.219s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;80    INFO| Host app; SketchUp Pro, 23.1.340
2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.219s) [main thread     ]SketchupWindowFloater.c;28    INFO| Found SketchUp window handle (title; SketchUp); 0000000000511A04
2024-01-04 20;15;43.629 (   0.233s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
2024-01-04 20;17;31.214 ( 107.818s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
2024-01-04 20;17;31.214 ( 107.818s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
2024-01-04 20;17;32.864 ( 109.468s) [main thread     ]             loguru.cpp;485   INFO| atexit

pixelcruncher · 5 Jan 2024, 07:32

Thanks for sharing the log!

Based on the PC specs I see in the log, Rayscaper should just work fine for your laptop. Also from the logs it looks like the application runs fine for 109 seconds and then just exits, so no crash (note: I'm not disputing it's not crashing on your laptop, just that it seems like it didn't crash based on this log file).

A couple of questions:

Does SU crash for you immediately if you start up, or if you load a specific file, or if you start rendering that file?
Does it work for any other files, or for the default empty scene?
Do you mind reproducing the crash again and sending me another log file?

Appreciate your help!

Cheers,
Thomas

jo-ke · 5 Jan 2024, 08:24

I am back in my office and have the same issue.

I can not open again the file of the tramway, that I saved with the render settings a day before.

When I open an empty skp file it works, when I open the tramwayfile su imidiatly crashs.

I'll send you my file via email, to inspect.

here is the protocol:

arguments; SUEX_Rayscaper
Current dir; C;\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp
File verbosity level; 0
date       time         ( uptime  ) [ thread name/id ]                   file;line     v| 
2024-01-05 09;16;43.616 (   0.026s) [main thread     ]             loguru.cpp;770   INFO| Logging to 'C;\Users\KehlJ/SUEX_Rayscaper.log', mode; 'w', verbosity; 0
2024-01-05 09;16;43.778 (   0.188s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;73    INFO| Running Rayscaper version 0.7.3
2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;74    INFO| System info; Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz (4 cores), 15 GB ram
2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;75    INFO| OS info; Windows 10 (64-bit)
2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;80    INFO| Host app; SketchUp Pro, 23.1.340
2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]SketchupWindowFloater.c;28    INFO| Found SketchUp window handle (title; SketchUp); 0000000000030BF2
2024-01-05 09;16;43.788 (   0.198s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
2024-01-05 09;16;44.019 (   0.428s) [                ]   AssLibController.cpp;74    INFO| Loaded 1133 assets in 248.82 millis

jo-ke · 5 Jan 2024, 08:34

I created a new scene, imported the same model, hit the refresh but some faces still remained blue.

I've sent you the file to review what's wrong.

jo-ke · 5 Jan 2024, 09:54

next problems:

I created a scene, that I ususally use for my customers.

1: the drawer is not visible in render
2: the renderfile is not saved.
3: when I reopen the file SU again crushed
4: it is not possible to recover the skp file

really not a good start...

If you want, I can send you the Skp

jo-ke · 5 Jan 2024, 10:48

fortunately it is possible to recover the file, when opening an empty one and importing the old one....

but the rayscaper- materialsettings of the model are lost

majid · 5 Jan 2024, 12:29

I am getting better at it.

Rich O Brien · 5 Jan 2024, 13:08

That's very nice Majid. DOF is perfect.

jo-ke · 5 Jan 2024, 13:48

thank you Thomas:
one problem is solved:

a 15 year old path with a "ü" inside was the problem.

I have to rename it.

I took the file to another folder and I can open it.

interseting: more textures are blue now, I have to refresh each texture to get rid of the blue color.

and the drawer is suddenly visible.

The file was able to save and this is my first result: