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    • K Offline
      kwistenbiebel
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      I quickly tried it at work. The Geforce 9800 GT I have installed was too slow to make it useful.
      Also, panning/zooming/orbiting is not fast enough for now and the fact that it relies on .obj exports from Sketchup makes it somewhat limited (it doesn't hold SU cameras etc...)
      Let's hope a direct SU plugin will follow in later beta's.

      I do think that GPU rendering will have a nice future.
      A pitty that Asgvis is way behind with implementing Vray RT for Sketchup. A shame actually...

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        @kwistenbiebel said:

        I quickly tried it at work. The Geforce 9800 GT I have installed was too slow to make it useful.
        Also, panning/zooming/orbiting is not fast enough for now and the fact that it relies on .obj exports from Sketchup makes it somewhat limited (it doesn't hold SU cameras etc...)
        Let's hope a direct SU plugin will follow in later beta's.

        I do think that GPU rendering will have a nice future.
        A pitty that Asgvis is way behind with implementing Vray RT for Sketchup. A shame actually...

        Kind of hard for them to be on the edge with RT VfSU when the RT is developed by Chaosgroup and is a very recent product. ASGVis doesn't develop anything in regard to the V-Ray engine, just the plugin bridges to connect SU and Rhino to V-Ray.

        Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        • K Offline
          Khai
          last edited by

          @kwistenbiebel said:

          I quickly tried it at work. The Geforce 9800 GT I have installed was too slow to make it useful.
          Also, panning/zooming/orbiting is not fast enough for now and the fact that it relies on .obj exports from Sketchup makes it somewhat limited (it doesn't hold SU cameras etc...)
          Let's hope a direct SU plugin will follow in later beta's.

          I do think that GPU rendering will have a nice future.
          A pitty that Asgvis is way behind with implementing Vray RT for Sketchup. A shame actually...

          use the 8000 version of the renderer.. it runs faster on the 9000 series cards ๐Ÿ˜„

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          • jolranJ Offline
            jolran
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            @unknownuser said:

            use the 8000 version of the renderer.. it runs faster on the 9000 series cards

            It does doesent it? Got the 9500 gt. And there is 3 "resolution-alternatives", the icon on top with checkerboards.
            There ought to be a shader mode. Where on could zoom in to a good cameraview in tranquility and switch back to rendering.
            Maybe it does? just tried it for a few minutes.
            Its fun anyway!

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            • BurkhardB Offline
              Burkhard
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              @kwistenbiebel said:

              I quickly tried it at work. The Geforce 9800 GT I have installed was too slow to make it useful.
              Also, panning/zooming/orbiting is not fast enough for now and the fact that it relies on .obj exports from Sketchup makes it somewhat limited (it doesn't hold SU cameras etc...)
              Let's hope a direct SU plugin will follow in later beta's.

              I do think that GPU rendering will have a nice future.
              A pitty that Asgvis is way behind with implementing Vray RT for Sketchup. A shame actually...

              Then take alook here;

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              404: Page Not Found - CGarchitect

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              [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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              • K Offline
                kwistenbiebel
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                @burkhard said:

                @kwistenbiebel said:

                I quickly tried it at work. The Geforce 9800 GT I have installed was too slow to make it useful.
                Also, panning/zooming/orbiting is not fast enough for now and the fact that it relies on .obj exports from Sketchup makes it somewhat limited (it doesn't hold SU cameras etc...)
                Let's hope a direct SU plugin will follow in later beta's.

                I do think that GPU rendering will have a nice future.
                A pitty that Asgvis is way behind with implementing Vray RT for Sketchup. A shame actually...

                Then take alook here;

                Link Preview Image
                404: Page Not Found - CGarchitect

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                (www.cgarchitect.com)

                ..but that link refers to Vray RT for Max, not VrayforSU by Asgvis ๐Ÿ˜‰
                Asgvis is still using an old Vray engine for its Sketchup bridge ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                • K Offline
                  Khai
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  I got it up and running and realized I have no obj converter...I'm at home...they are at work. Can somebody point me to a free skp to obj exporter please. ๐Ÿ˜„

                  http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23725&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=beta it exports an OBJ ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                  • Mike LuceyM Offline
                    Mike Lucey
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                    Plugin: OBJ Exporter

                    Dec 18, 2010 - TIG just released a new .obj exporter. TIG's plugins are usually solid, so I recommend trying TIG's. ( TIG's OBJexporter on S...

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                    • K Offline
                      Khai
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      Thanks Khai!! ๐Ÿ‘.....but.......that's a UV exporter....I want to convert my .skp model to an .obj file.

                      erm. it exports the file as a OBJ file for the UVmapper to read........

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                      • K Offline
                        Khai
                        last edited by

                        here's a side effect I never thought of. found by a user over at Rendo..

                        he's rendering in Octane and Poser 8... at the same time. Poser's unaffected and he's getting 6fp's out of Octane....

                        the fact you have one on the CPU and one on the GPU.. there's a whole avenue of render machines that can render 2 different projects at the same time opening up!

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                        • jolranJ Offline
                          jolran
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                          So what are the commersial alternatives for obj exports? A far from Su proexporters, that is. They never work for me.
                          Ive tried Okino, and that one work nicely. A tad expensive just for conversion. But still really good.

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                            pibuz
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                            Hi guys!
                            I can't find the SketchY-2-Octane is!

                            I found this http://vimeo.com/13075558 : so it must exists ๐Ÿ˜†

                            Is it sort of a PRO feature? I only downloaded the demo..

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                            • BurkhardB Offline
                              Burkhard
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                              You can find this one at the registered area of the octane forum page. It was written by TIG

                              [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Octane demo users can't get the exporters... ๐Ÿ˜ž
                                You need to be a 'licensed member' to get access to special parts of the Octane web-site to be able to download the various exporters and other goodies - and that includes the Sketchup Octane Render Exporter that I wrote for them last year [(c) Refractive Software]. It was recently updated to overcome a sudden and unexpected glitch with the new version of web-browser caused by Safari in the latest MAC OS, but it now works the same way on PC and MAC as it did before ๐Ÿ˜„

                                TIG

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