[Plugin] SU2POV 3.5

Didier Bur

Hi,

what is the reason behind SU2POV? I mean, aren't there enough render app to render a SU scene/model

su2pov is old, first version was published in 2005 and was one of the first exporter to a render app. There was not lots of them at that time (I mean free, and ascii format). Tomasz developed su2kt a year later, based on su2pov, and since then I've written su2sf among others. Su2pov was like a test program for me and made me learn lots of things about Ruby and SketchUp.
Yes there are plenty of render apps around, I'm not blind you know but for high quality renderings, you need a payware (Maxwell, Vray, Podium, etc). Su2pov is just for fun, although you can achieve decent results with it, IMHO.
Best regards,

vidy

dear didier,

i have one request for the new plugin SU2POV 3.5, is it possible with the material preset, we still have the "old like" material editor? i mean, i feel much easier with slider bar to all parameter..

or it is still there, but i don't how to access it
thanks

regards,

solodown

@solodown said:

@unknownuser said:

Loading File su2pov35Toolbar.rb
private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Y a-t-il une solution à mon problème ?

Didier Bur

Hi,
@vidy: sorry, but the old material editor has been deleted... (it was windows-only).
@solodown: il me faudrait le message d'erreur en entier (avec le numéro de ligne où ça plante). merci.

solodown

C'est la seule information qu'il me donne à l'ouverture de sketchup dans la fenêtre load error :

Error Loading File su2pov35Toolbar.rb
private method `split' called for nil;NilClass

vidy

Hi didier,

with this new plug-in 3.5, is there a way i can attach bump image on the texture?

thanks,
vd

Didier Bur

Hi,

@unknownuser said:

is there a way i can attach bump image on the texture?

If you mean attach another image (than the one of the texture) for the bump effect, the answer is no, but you can do this editing the pov-ray material manually.
regards

Didier Bur

@solodown:

Je suppose que tu es sur Mac ?
essaies avec le fichier attaché ci-dessous (à dezipper dans le dossier Plugins):

Su2pov35.zip

vidy

@didier bur said:

If you mean attach another image (than the one of the texture) for the bump effect, the answer is no, but you can do this editing the pov-ray material manually.
regards

actually i want to add the same image, but with normal map or black and white version..
any tips about edit it manually as you describe above? thanks

regards,

Didier Bur

Hi,

Look at here:http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.0/341/
or here: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_840e.htm
or here: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Bump_mapping

vidy

thanks for your response didier, but that technique kind of make me nervous, since im not good at programming..

what i want to confirm from you, is there any possibility to add an external image texture in your material "surface effect" dialog box? (something that we can browse it independently)

thanks,

Didier Bur

@unknownuser said:

is there any possibility to add an external image texture in your material "surface effect" dialog box

Not in this version, maybe in a next release...

solodown

@didier bur said:

@solodown:

Je suppose que tu es sur Mac ?
essaies avec le fichier attaché ci-dessous (à dezipper dans le dossier Plugins):

Merci ^^

Mais ça n'a pas l'air de fonctionner, je mets Render !, save puis rien ne se passe

vidy

@didier bur said:

@unknownuser said:

is there any possibility to add an external image texture in your material "surface effect" dialog box

Not in this version, maybe in a next release...

Woow.. it will be awesome feature mr. bur, thanks..

lichinho

@solodown said:

@didier bur said:

@solodown:

Je suppose que tu es sur Mac ?
essaies avec le fichier attaché ci-dessous (à dezipper dans le dossier Plugins):

Merci ^^

Mais ça n'a pas l'air de fonctionner, je mets Render !, save puis rien ne se passe

Merci pour cette version pour mac.

Elle tourne en effet sur mac. Le fichier pov est creé. POV n'est pas lancé automatiquement, mais pour moi tant mieux, car je peux lancer MegaPOV manuellement.

Pour moi, c'est suffisant. Cependant, le plugin essaye de créer des fichiers dans un sous-directoire mais en utilisant le séparateur "" comme en windows, et pas "/". Le résult est que "" vient à faire part du nom du fichier.
Si, par exemple, le nom du sketch est "sketch",
en lieu de créer un fichier "sketch.pov" dans une directoire "sketch", un fichier avec le nom "sketch\sketch.pov" est créé et le directoire "sketch" reste vide. C'est pas grave, mais quelque chose à rectifier peut-être dans une nouvelle version.

Merci beaucoup!

xWarcox

gracias ... en español por que mi ingles no es tan bueno ...
los mejores renders los he optenido con Pov-Ray .. gracias al Su2Pov

juniormiranda

@didier bur said:

@solodown:

Je suppose que tu es sur Mac ?
essaies avec le fichier attaché ci-dessous (à dezipper dans le dossier Plugins):

Please, the file doesn't work for me. I had the same problem:

Error Loading File su2pov35Toolbar.rb
private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

skp 8.0.3161

cm architects

Didier,

I installed Su2POV3.5: no problem. However when I start rendering I get the message: "POV file created in C:\users..\desktop\untitled but unable to launche POV-Ray......"
What's going wrong?

Cees

Didier Bur

Hi,
This message appears in these cases:

SketchUp model has never been saved,
Pov-Ray is not installed on your system,
.pov extension isn't associated with the Pov-Ray program.

Please double-click on the file that has been created and see what happens, and let me know.
Regards,

grusgrus

Hi.

I have discovered a rather obscure but very inconvenient bug in su2pov.
While trying to render an architectural model using POV-ray and su2pov i found that parts of my model were in the wrong place (far far out of place).

The common factor for all the missing or dislocated parts is that they have all been scaled as a part of an operation using other addons.

Components that have been scaled while using Chris Fulmer's ComponentStringer or Scale and rotate multiple are moved out of place.
If a component has been scaled manually it behaves as normal. However this problem is reproducible when using the aforementioned plugins.

One of the components i am using is dynamic and the other is set to face camera. i have not tried with basic components.
I have tried removing all my other plugins and just using su2pov but the problem does persist even so.

I am using SU8 pro, su2pov 3.5 and the latest versions available of ComponentStringer and Scale and rotate mulitiple.

Seeing as all these plugins are very useful tools, I hope it is possible to make them work together.

regards
Grusgrus