Post diagnosis.
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OK, I cannot even select a component and an axis, then move the component to ANY degree of accuracy. Bam bleeping boozled.
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OK, seems a buggered component. I know.
I got this fromm chillblast who think the onbvoard graphics have to be used with sketchup and ignore the fact that this item cannot be seen.
Hi Mike,
Thank you for your patience, unfortunately I have been out of the office.
In regards to what the person that had a look at the computer advised on, There is no flaw with NVIDIA graphics and Windows 24H2.
I believe you have 2 systems in total, one from 2015 and a 2022 one, and as I am aware Both systems have integrated on board graphics, which you should use with Sketchup.
Without testing the system, which we can look to arrange, we cannot diagnose the faults you advise you have. We can certainly remote onto your system as well if that helps, without testing it we can only assume it's issues with the software. Your newer system came back in May/June last year and was testing and found no faults.
Many thanks
Dave
David Millar
Customer Services Manager
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OK, motre data, Windows big 2025 update has had some issues which they "Hope to resolve soon". I asked when "Soon" is but no clue that end. On top of that, nvidia updates are problematic too. Apprently the nvidia updates are conflicting with windows updates, left and right hand thing I suppose.
nvidia tell me they are working on a 'patch' for release in the next few weeks but no guarantee.
Seems that A lot of the issues are conflict related, lags, freezing etc.
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The very strong directional light of the background image isn't continuing into the kitchen space.
Did you try add a Sun light pointing in the same genral direction. You could slow dial up the power so it places nice with the internal light setup you have.
Sometime HDRs + Directional can be used together to hack nicer shadows. But re-rendering is needed, which is a painful pill to swallow.
Is this Rayscaper or Twilight?
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Ta Rich, this is Rayscaper. Soft lighting is something I cannot find, nor understand the 'fog' I see here. Not talking about dof.
Twilight has a decent ability to create a 'plane' and assign hdri to for direction of lighting.
This hdri is a favoiurite of mine with the sun rays etc.
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I have added a directional (Rayscaper) light and set to sunlight which IIRC is 6800k. Aimed into the centre of the view.
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Trying a Hotrod which I have rendered before in Twilight V2. Initially opening Rayscaper led to failed renders. Just va simple report, 'Failed'.
Being a Hotrod, there will be flames. The PNG is on a seperate 'face copied from the model and painted as a component. Twilight see's the transparency fine but Rayscaper does not, when it does render.
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Spicy. Interesting that Rayscaper fails. Is this model very heavy in terms of file size?
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@Mike-Amos do you mind sending me the model?
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I have sent an email with a link.
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Movement?
Twilight.
Rayscaper.
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@Mike-Amos said in Post diagnosis.:
Movement?
Twilight.
Rayscaper.
Something wonky, the 0/0 samples/px doesn't look good. It seems like it never started rendering. What happens if you switch to CPU rendering as a test?
- Menu > File > Settings...
- Tick off the "Use GPU Rendering"
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I have already ticked 'use gpu rendering' a while ago when the system was changed.
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Hey Mike,
I have already ticked 'use gpu rendering' a while ago when the system was changed.
I just wanted to check if the model renders correctly with the CPU and try to isolate the problem to GPU rendering.
It does render for me using GPU rendering; the model is surprisingly polygon-heavy. I do see the same problem with the flames texture and the alpha channel:
I guess you are using the same flames texture in Twilight Render. I'm surprised it gives such a nice result because this flame texture doesn't have a clean alpha channel. There's a pattern in the alpha channel:
Does Twilight Render have a way to display thumbnails for textures? I'm intrigued at how it can render this so cleanly.
Cheers,
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I spotted the alpha chanel stuff earlier when attemping to use that =texture for the log fire in the cold view scene. Weird.
Transparency png are flaky tbh and I am looking to 'try' with 3d flames, I shall need a lot of paracetamol for that though.
No idea if Twilight has any fanciness in this respect, Fletch and Chris are now gone so, relying on my daffy memory which is seive quality.
I have notice that having a backgrounbd which has some commonality to the transparency helps. The red/scarlet works best here.
I have attempted to recreate a scene with cutaway and limiting nayural light to that provided by the geometry, windows etc. Many splats with no report just the windows desktop.
I shall leave this here, needs a lot of adjustemnt lighting levels wise but gives a reasonable render potential.
The semi opaque walls, not so sure about.
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Adjustment.
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