This was my first experiment with wobbly windows. It is my thought that even the pane frames may be technically flat, the glass panes are flexible an would not sit 100% flat due to the adhesive thickness would not be absolutely flat.![image: SU.jpg]

Excellent as always!

@nlipovac said in Piano with Rayscaper: @ntxdave This is an online generator, I made a few for when I do UV mapping. https://uvchecker.vinzi.xyz/ You made that?

@Rich-O-Brien Very nice texturing and render!

@krass - I'm not sure how it works in V-Ray, but in Rayscaper, the grass creates a scatter behind the scenes on the surface and then assigns UVs so your textures also work on the grass surface. We have some hard-coded grass patches in the software. The density limit is there for performance reasons; making it too dense could crash your GPU if it's not beefy enough, so there's a limit. Way back, when I was a developer on the OctaneRender team, we implemented hair and fur using special hair "geometry," which is like tiny strings of geometry next to your normal triangles. I can also look at this method in Rayscaper. It's a bit of work, so I can't really promise this in the 1.0 release (which I wanna get out, because people think Rayscaper is crap because it's still in beta). edit: I'll increase the density limit a bit in the next release anyway, then you are unblocked for creating carpets until we have something better.

@pixelcruncher thank you very much

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Hi Rich; thanks for your hint. But it does not run like your suggest. The triangles cannot be moved. At least on my surface. They light up red yes; but cannot be moved. I suspect I have somewhere else unintentionally changed a parameter in the main settings. Because I have already created several animations with clips that do not have such a timeline bar because the length of the clip is selected via the "duration" function. ![on this picture you can see within the main timeline the clip called "erste palette"](/uploads/imported_attachments/oGPS_1.PNG "on this picture you can see within the main timeline the clip called "erste palette"") ![here you can see the opened clip "erste palette" there is not this white line with the triangles](/uploads/imported_attachments/HenH_2.PNG "here you can see the opened clip "erste palette" there is not this white line with the triangles")

Here is an update on the issue of MP4 clips always being encoded by Animator at 25 FPS regardless of what frame rate was requested in the Animator UI dialog box. I found a way on-line to use ffmpeg to create a copy of an MP4 clip file with a different encoded frame rate. In this example, I wanted to create a clip at 30 FPS. I used Animator to create a clip file called Clip.mp4 of an animation that is 10 seconds long (according to the Animator clip editor timeline); I requested 30 FPS in the Animator UI which means 300 frames in the clip. Animator created 300 frames as expected, but tagged the resulting Clip.mp4 MP4 file as 25 FPS. As a result, when the 300 frames in clip.mp4 are played back on the computer the clip lasts 12 seconds (300 frames at 25 FPS yields 12 seconds). This is not wanted; I intended the clip to play in 10 seconds at 30 FPS. Here is an ffmpeg command that will adjust the frame rate of a new copy of the clip (named Clip-30fps.mp4) to be 30 FPS: ffmpeg -itsscale 0.83333 -i Clip.mp4 -map 0 -c copy Clip-30fps.mp4 This basic command will work to make a new copy of any clip (substituting the clip filenames as desired) to be 30 FPS, when the original clip was encoded at 25 FPS. The key switch in the command is "-itsscale 0.83333"; the number 0.83333 is the approximate ratio between 25 FPS and 30 FPS.

@pawelludwa said: Can I save each frame as a scene in Sketchup ? How to take each frame seperately to actually create scenes from them ? This is not possible with the current version of Animator. Anyway, it would create potentially hundreds of scenes.

@rich o brien said: I spend some time looking at those .animator file to see if we can implement them into animated browser embeds. Also I was hoping those files could some be imported into larger scenes to animation to objects. The .animator file is purely technical, in case something happen to the model. I was thinking also to have an animation specification file, that would be easier to build and in clear language to specify an animation by the sequences and time line (like "Object1 3.0 4.2 Rotate 90 (1, 0, 0)" for a rotation of 90 degrees around the X axi, starting at 3s and for a duration of 4.2s, applied to Object1. Not sure however if this would be useful and what we could do with it. Somehow, there is a concept of parametric composed animation, which could probably be make more generic with this approach. Fredo

There is nothing like a generic batch rendering and video generatiion. Anyway, on a single computer, they would have to queue the jobs because there is one processor and graphic card. I don't know which rendering software you use. If it is VRay, there is now an option to generate the rendered video on Vray cloud, as well as a Batch option. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy5DT1jKddc

As a matter of fact, our eyes (mind) works differently from photos or computers. i.e light attenuation is based on inverse square ratio, but when one adjusts them in this way will find it more like what a camera captures and not what our eyes captures. So I've experienced that it will give a better result if adjust the attenuation as "inverse". the result will be more smooth and less contrast ,a better solution for interiors. and do not neglect some fake lighting using rectangular lights, here and there ... .

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...

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Found this one: cubicVR. A free plugin by Sketchup Podium. Description and download here: https://www.suplugins.com/podium/help/cubicVR.php It generates the equirectangular output in one clic. The drawing lines are pretty sketchy, but it's sufficient for my current needs of fast prototyping. Though, I would be glad if someone knows of a cleaner alternative. [image: cubicVR first output] [image: cubicVR equirectangular output.] [image: Equirect output - closeup]