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    • K Offline
      kwistenbiebel
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      Don't know about spearfishing ( 😉 ) but I just tried the Twilight demo and I must say: fabulous User Interface!!!!
      I wasn't expecting such a nice workflow. It is simple yet elaborate.
      Some great thinking behind it.

      I especially like the render settings screen and most of all the simple material setup. Just clicking the mat in the viewport with the mat sampler and the mat editor shows up. Great stuff.
      Also the tool hints that appear when hovering above are life savers. Features of Kerkythea that I never understood actually make more sense now 😄.
      I am happy to see that the real time tone mapper is there and working well.

      Could the Twilight developers make a similar UI for Vray,Fry and Maxwell please? 😄

      And a little question while I am here: Is it possible to acces the render settings .xml file ?
      Also, if I want to use unbiased animation (path tracing progressive), can I assign a maximum render time per frame? the default of 100 or 500 passes seems overkill for some scenes.

      A quick try:


      twilight1.jpg

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
        last edited by

        Animation with progressive presets would indeed sound interesting.

        Gai...

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        • K Offline
          kwistenbiebel
          last edited by

          Hi Gaieus,
          the progressive presets are in place. It is just that I can't change parameters.

          An issue I am running into:
          I am trying to render an animation, but each frame is rendered with the same (initial) view.
          After each frame, the SU screen seems to go to the next frame (I see it moving), but the rendered view remains always the same?
          [EDIT]: apparently the camera tab needs to be set to <Current View> in order to pick up the cam movement. Yeah!

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            That's exactly the issue I ran into (I thought I was going nuts already) and Chris finally told me the same solution.
            😄

            Gai...

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              Ecuadorian
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              @kwistenbiebel said:

              And a little question while I am here: Is it possible to acces the render settings .xml file ?

              The render settings .xml files are saved here:
              C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins\Twilight\RenderSettings

              @kwistenbiebel said:

              Also, if I want to use unbiased animation (path tracing progressive), can I assign a maximum render time per frame? the default of 100 or 500 passes seems overkill for some scenes.

              To change the number of passes in unbiased animation presets, just look for this line near the beginning of the .xml file you want to edit and change the value:

              <Parameter Name="Max Iterations" Type="Integer" Value="500"/>

              -Miguel Lescano
              Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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                kwistenbiebel
                last edited by

                Thanks Miguel.
                I tried animation using a medium Photon Map setting and it is quite fast.

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                  Fletch
                  last edited by

                  @kwistenbiebel said:

                  ...I just tried the Twilight demo and I must say: fabulous User Interface!!!!
                  I wasn't expecting such a nice workflow. It is simple yet elaborate.
                  Some great thinking behind it.

                  Could the Twilight developers make a similar UI for Vray,Fry and Maxwell please? 😄

                  Hi Kwistenbiebel,
                  😄 This is a high compliment, indeed, we are pleased that you can appreciate it.

                  This project has more than a year of very hard work/labor of love from a few guys from Kerkythea.

                  We designed it with architectural designers using SketchUp in mind so that ANYONE, newbie to rendering, or advanced users like ourselves to be able to get out of it what we each want... that is, Twilight Render is as shallow or (almost as) deep of a program as you want it to be...

                  Please use it in good health.

                  Render Happy,

                  Fletch
                  Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                  • EdsonE Offline
                    Edson
                    last edited by

                    fletch and kim,

                    do you have any idea as to when a twilight mac version will be available?

                    edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                    http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                    • FrederikF Offline
                      Frederik
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                      @edson said:

                      do you have any idea as to when a twilight mac version will be available?

                      The best answer I can give you is the following...

                      @chris said:

                      Porting the code to Mac is turning out to be more difficult than expected. 99.9% of the code is cross platform, yet there are so many little difference when building software on a Mac that the term "cross platform" is just a mean little joke. However, it is being actively pursued. But I can't give any dates because it's all new territory for me. 😳

                      I can add that Chris is working hard on it...

                      Cheers
                      Kim Frederik

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                      • EdsonE Offline
                        Edson
                        last edited by

                        thanks, kim.

                        edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                        http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                          urs0815
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                          ... the mac release for x-mas.... would be the right present 🎉

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                            remus
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                            February was the last i heard 😉

                            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                              pugz1983
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                              On the Twilight site I saw it's possible to export a scene as xml. Does this mean I can assign materials in Sketchup and then render in Kerky? Are the materialsettings put in with Twilight stored when exported to xml?

                              Greetz from the Netherlands

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                                notareal
                                last edited by

                                @pugz1983 said:

                                On the Twilight site I saw it's possible to export a scene as xml. Does this mean I can assign materials in Sketchup and then render in Kerky? Are the materialsettings put in with Twilight stored when exported to xml?

                                Greetz from the Netherlands

                                yes, with registered version.

                                Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                                  d12dozr
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                                  @pugz1983 said:

                                  On the Twilight site I saw it's possible to export a scene as xml. Does this mean I can assign materials in Sketchup and then render in Kerky? Are the materialsettings put in with Twilight stored when exported to xml?

                                  Greetz from the Netherlands

                                  ...and lots more info here: http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/index.php

                                  3D Printing with SketchUp Book
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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
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                                    Well, with the registered version, you can export scenes to Kerky.

                                    BUT even with the free version, after setting your materials, you can save the skp file and all the settings will be saved (except for Kerky library settings most probably - as those libraries will vary from computer to computer).

                                    So just have a look at this model:
                                    http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d1cd245ad45b78978631792c30e19543&prevstart=0
                                    download and render it without setting anything.

                                    Gai...

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                                    • SektaS Offline
                                      Sekta
                                      last edited by

                                      Twilight render looks very interesting 👍 👍 👍 . Does anyone know if it has the capability to render a section / Perspective Section? I would find this very handy like most if it does. 😄 😄 😄

                                      Stan

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi Sekta,

                                        Currently this is the method:
                                        http://www.twilightrender.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=419
                                        but there are plans to render real cuts (without erasing geometry) as you can read here:
                                        http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=9242#p9242

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Twilight will render section cuts in a future release.

                                        Gai...

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                                        • SektaS Offline
                                          Sekta
                                          last edited by

                                          Gai,

                                          Thanks for the response. The fact that Twilight will be able to render sections in future has me sold on it. Kerky has been a great free companion though. 👍 👍 👍

                                          Stan

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