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    • M Offline
      me3mar
      last edited by

      hallo everyone,

      i am having a problem with vray rendering a part of the view only(in two point perspective ) , while getting the right sketchup view by exporting 2d jpeg.
      the vray keeps rendering another view nomatter what i do, it renders somtimes above, and sometimes beneath the sketchup view.
      the output pic in vray is my monitor = sketchup view

      do these tools help with my problem ?
      thanks in advance 😄

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        thomthom
        last edited by

        @me3mar said:

        hallo everyone,

        i am having a problem with vray rendering a part of the view only(in two point perspective ) , while getting the right sketchup view by exporting 2d jpeg.
        the vray keeps rendering another view nomatter what i do, it renders somtimes above, and sometimes beneath the sketchup view.
        the output pic in vray is my monitor = sketchup view

        do these tools help with my problem ?
        thanks in advance 😄

        Don't think so. This plugin required the physical camera to sync the views.

        I think that you have to disable the physical camera in order to render 2 point perspectives. I've never done 2 point perspectives, but there's some threads on the topic over at ASGvis's forums.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          free agent
          last edited by

          nope its a vray bug, they cant read any changes you make to the viewport after enableling 2point perspective mode, so when u enable 2 point thats what is going to render, if u pan up to see the building it will only render ur initial view 😞 my fix is too zoom out and render at a high resolution so u can crop ur render or just correct it in photoshop.

          http:i167.photobucket.comalbumsu143FreeAgent84bug.gif

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          • M Offline
            me3mar
            last edited by

            Thanks so much to Free Agent and to Thomthom,
            i'll give it a try at the ASGvis's forums.
            greetings

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              EarthMover
              last edited by

              Thomas, I had a chance you use your plugin today and it worked flawlessly. Thanks again. The render I did is at the bottom of this page - http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=16231&start=45

              3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
              Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
              Content Creator at Skapeup

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @earthmover said:

                Thomas, I had a chance you use your plugin today and it worked flawlessly. Thanks again. The render I did is at the bottom of this page - http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=16231&start=45

                That's a nice render. Thanks for posting the raw render as well, demonstrates how important post processing is.

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  MrWip
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                  Hi ThomThom (and of course the other too...!)

                  I'm using really often Vray renders + Skechup lines, and I came up with an other solution than yours to solve the distortion problem, maybe it can help to share it.

                  In fact, to be honest, the 'out of the box' Vray Presets (for sketchup) are really bad and does not shows the true potential of this software...
                  Everything is linked with this physical camera, and if you want to kill the distortion, you have to switch it off.( the only basic effect that you loose is the vignetting, that you can had easily add on Photoshop... and it's a bit the same for the other ones, like exposure, etc...).
                  The only problem then , is the fact that everything gets burnt by the sun light, which normal level of intensity is set up to match with physical camera's sensibility.
                  So, the solution is to reduce it, to match with the normal camera sensibility. After many test and a lot of strange results, it appear that an intensity of 0,00005 (don't ask...) is just fine, and give the same result than 1 with the physical cam. Then, everything works perfectly, and you can render directly matching pictures and 2 point perspective or 2D views!

                  You can find this settings in the presets on my website, and I've just done a quick translation to make the non-french speakers able to use them. Their organisation is quite logical, so I think you will find out how they works...

                  WiP_VrayOptions_Eng.zip
                  I've also modified the original lamps to match this settings, and to make them more easy to use. (just drag an drop the lamps into your component folder, and when you use them, explode before, if you re using a Vray 1.0, because it bugs when they are into a component... watch this page to find out more http://www.wip-archi.com/wip-visualiser/vray/le%C3%A7on-2-lumiere/)

                  WiP_VrayLights.zip

                  Let me know how it works in your models, so I may improve the presets...

                  http://www.wip-archi.com

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    As of SR1.5 of VfSU the default preset it with the physical camera and sun/sky off.

                    I prefer physical camera as I like to work with real world units, for setting the light and camera exposure. It's only on the rare occasion I want a 2point or 2D view.

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                    • M Offline
                      MrWip
                      last edited by

                      Ok...

                      But when you're working on other things than photorealistic renders(and it happens often for an architect..), it's really usefull to have a way to match a clean light calculation (without any lens effect and other stuffs like that..) on a quick sketch (Clay render are far more clear with this method).

                      Besides, I don't want to move to Vray up to 1.0, regarding to the amount of problem it does create (even with some ruby like 'remove CG materials'). It's sad to see that the solutions offered to solve the original bugs are worse than the bugs themselves. But that's something to be discuss on an other topic, I guess...

                      http://www.wip-archi.com

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                      • J Offline
                        Jorgensen
                        last edited by

                        Hi Thom Thom

                        When I try to export via your exporter I always get a 'Failed to save image' 😞

                        What can I be doing wrong ?

                        Thanks
                        Jorgensen

                        sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          hm... not sure, can you post a image of your setup when you try to save?

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            Jorgensen
                            last edited by

                            witch setup ? 😲

                            I can export normaly via export > 2d

                            sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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                              j40
                              last edited by

                              Hey Thom,
                              I use your plugin since i upgraded VfSU.
                              It works beautifully with the vray outcome. 👍
                              But the export image doesn't work for me at all. 😕
                              After choosing files destination with the browser window, naming the file


                              This error window pops up:

                              Top3D Studio

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                hm... your height reports "infinity". What's your aspect ratio set to? How does that window look like?

                                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  j40
                                  last edited by

                                  this particular screenshot was undefined. but this message pops in all models that i've tried on.
                                  i do set the aspect ratio and the plugin gives me the with info but still fails to export....

                                  Top3D Studio

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                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    What's the filename you try to save to?

                                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                      j40
                                      last edited by

                                      I've tried all sort of combination: numbers, letters and both together.
                                      Too bad i can't export, exactly now i'm working on project that it would be a lot of help.

                                      btw is the file type line in browser should be empty?

                                      Top3D Studio

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        It doesn't offer any list of filetypes.
                                        You must remember to append the file type to the file name. For instance: Image01**.png**

                                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        • J Offline
                                          j40
                                          last edited by

                                          Ahh... now it works 😄
                                          Thanks Thom

                                          Top3D Studio

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            Good to hear it works now. I'll put it down on my to-do list for that plugin to verify the filetype. I think I did this myself once - and you know you need to change something when you are confused over something you made yourself. 😳

                                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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