http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=58560, first of all I must thank for kind feedback and confess that due to the fact thaat my book covers V-Ray V2x version it would be great if I had the chance to prepare a book on V3x version of V-Ray as it is more user friendly...
As the change rates are so fast that it seems I must wait for V4x...

Paradise Sandbox v1.3 is almost here! Volumetric lighting, huge enhancements in projects management, tons of performance optimizations and lighting improvements...

Here is a little sneak peak!

http://imageshack.com/a/img811/8545/8esr.png

Xavier

Looks like you might need to ask your question over at the rendado website.

Maybe also this old one by Thomthom! 😉
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=tt_raytracer
A tool to detect to drop cpoints, emit construction lines and drop object onto the surface below.
ETC...

i have had similar issues with my Fredo Bundle license which I purchased at the beginning of this year. I had to transfer to a new computer, and everything else installed fine, but i still get dinged for the Fredo Plugins. I have PMd Fredo but so far no response.

Ideas?

D

Tried RPS 3d pdf a while ago and it did an alright job.

Currently use SimLab whenever it's necessary and it does a great job. I decided to stick with their old version though because the new "automatic camera mode" didn't seem to be turn-offable in the free version of the new one.

@davidboulder said:

I do a lot of panoramic work, there are plenty of free panoramic options there to view panoramas, as well as to create them. But It appears that O3D also does other things.

Can you give us some hints on good ways to go from equi-rectangular panoramas to web page display?

O3D could do some other things. But I'm not sure what would be useful for a Panorama - while you are looking at an image pasted to the inside of a sphere. Perhaps adding hot spots to link to things? (An, of course, the ability to put a page on your site which will display panoramas directly from the .JPG or .PNG. Do any of the other solution let you pass an image to a single web page for display?)

We keep looking at 03D just in case it every catches on or does something good. You would think it would work properly on the Mac browser.

If you get the O3D to work, try using the "?file=" mentioned in the first thread of the post to view one of your own panoramas and send us the link if it works well.

Are you creating Panorama images from SketchUp?

The Mac version of Podium 1.7.1 beta is ready. It's available in the Registered User area.
Happy rendering

So I made a simple model and tested the snippet without selecting anything. It works flawlessly.

I don't think it iterates inside groups. Only tried on loose geometry, but I'm going to try That.

EDIT: What it does seems to be doing is grouping all groups in the model into a new group called Layer0. It doesn't act inside those groups. This is cool and a way to control the scope.

Geometry to be affected by the snippet should be in root of the model.

EDIT2: Groups that are tagged already, get their objects inside grouped and stripped from tags. This happens even if they have no tags. All other groups are grouped together in a group called Layer0

You can get 3.1.8 at...

http://downloads.sketchucation.com/pluginstore/SketchUcationTools_v3.1.8.rbz

Thanks to TIG for digging through his record crates for some golden oldies

@tig said:

If you have complex geometry or resulting shadows it can take a long time to process everything.
You report is unclear if it's a proper 'bugsplat' or simply takes a long time ??
If you have the Ruby Console open during the processing do any error messages appear ?
If SketchUp 'hangs' and becomes unresponsive, then does the Task Manager dialog show it doing anything ??

Consider simplifying the shadow-casting and/or shadow-receiving geometry to optimize what needs to be done...

Hi TIG!

Sorry, for not including enough details in my beginning statement. But yes, it consistently produced proper bugsplats on certain surfaces.

I did, however, managed to overcome the problem by segmenting my surfaces into smaller parts.

Would you have any general advice on how I can prevent this issue from happening in the future?

Thanks for your great extension btw.

Cheers,
DLAUWJ

Thanks for sharing this Rich. It really looks interesting. Wish my laptop had not died so I could this one a go.

I installed sketchup 2022 pro on my PC which is running Windows 7. All other functions are running pretty well except this sketchudation store plugin. My laptop is running Windows 11 and I can use Fredo corner plugin with purchased license without any problem.

The Windows 7 PC had an IE8 installed before. I have tried to access the login page copied from the ruby script and the page failed to load due to some script error.

I'll see if I can get IE back and updated to newer version like IE 11 and see if I can resolve the issue.

SketchUp's default extension installation path is...

C;\Users\SomeName\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2022\SketchUp\Plugins

Our ExtensionStore detects when there is additional extension locations as some third party apps, like render engines, will install extensions in other locations...

https://i.imgur.com/WA2FT1p.png

Always pick the top path to ensure correct installation unless you know for sure any additional path are needed.

You screenshot of your Extension Manager dialog is showing that RoundCorner, Visuhole etc are not installed in the expected location.

@sju05322 said:

I purchased license a few minutes ago, and i received license number.
But it's not working with a message, " Failed to connect to license server."
And i cant connect to evilsoftwareempire homepage to chrome internet.
HOW CAN I USE THIS PULGIN????

My country is korea and my email address is sju05322@naver.com

PLEASE HELP.

In order to activate your licence your SketchUp needs to be able to access our licensing server. Please ensure that you are connected to the internet when you are activating your licence and no firewalls are blocking the internet communication. If you are behind a firewall, whitelist the sketchucation.com domain and all it's subdomains.

Thanks Rich.