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    • broomstickB Offline
      broomstick
      last edited by

      you're right, I forgot to attach the background image too, but you have answered my question: as I see it, you just exported the perspective view and rendered, right? No additional camera tweaking?

      Plus the result of the render gives me some more information on how it could be done in vray.

      Will get to try it out this weekend I think.

      Thanks a bunch, solo! If I may ask something more: is Thea a standalone renderer? or does it work inside sketchup?

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      • soloS Offline
        solo
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        @unknownuser said:

        Thanks a bunch, solo! If I may ask something more: is Thea a standalone renderer? or does it work inside sketchup?

        Currently it's studio (stand alone) who knows what happens in the near future. πŸ˜‰

        http://www.solos-art.com

        If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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        • broomstickB Offline
          broomstick
          last edited by

          @solo said:

          @unknownuser said:

          Thanks a bunch, solo! If I may ask something more: is Thea a standalone renderer? or does it work inside sketchup?

          Currently it's studio (stand alone) who knows what happens in the near future. πŸ˜‰

          oh, you tease... πŸ˜„

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          • V Offline
            valerostudio
            last edited by

            How easy is it to go back to SU and make edits and then go back to Thea? Is it a pain?

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            • N Offline
              notareal
              last edited by

              @valerostudio said:

              How easy is it to go back to SU and make edits and then go back to Thea? Is it a pain?

              With Thea you can merge scenes. Operation is fairly straight forward. When you have done changes in SU, export new scene, do net let it open in Thea. Next in Thea use File>Merge... pick newly exported file and select suitable parameters..

              http://www.thearender.com/forum/download/file.php?id=693

              Development of Thea is ongoing process. One thing is certain... new features will come on the exporter and the studio side. Naturally customers interest for a deeper integration with a modeler is know.

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

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              • V Offline
                valerostudio
                last edited by

                Thea is on my list of to-try demos. I am working with Vue right now and will try Thea shortly. I just hope a VfSU 2.0 teaser comes out soon to get me excited again.

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                • holmes1977H Offline
                  holmes1977
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                  @valerostudio said:

                  I just hope a VfSU 2.0 teaser comes out soon to get me excited again.

                  Right there with you on that one

                  Exaggeration makes a dull story better.

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                  • dkendigD Offline
                    dkendig
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    I just hope a VfSU 2.0 teaser comes out soon to get me excited again.

                    Well I believe the next release of VfR will be the teaser you're looking for. We don't really have time to diddle around with media hype, we're busy making the product πŸ˜‰

                    Devin Kendig
                    Developer

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                      nomeradona
                      last edited by

                      since devin is saying how others do stuff. do you think this can be done in Vray..

                      visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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                      • dkendigD Offline
                        dkendig
                        last edited by

                        I just use the free UV Tools plugin for spherical mapping: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23725 I suppose we could just "borrow" from this plugin or figure out another way to do it on our own, but this plugin does a great job with spherical mapping already.

                        V-Ray for SketchUp will work with all UV mapping that you can do in the app... except for textures that have been manipulated using the "distort" uv mapping tool. To get that to work you have to "make the texture unique" option when right clicking the geometry that has distorted uv mapping. We support the "rotate", "shear", and "move" uv mapping tools without a problem though.

                        Devin Kendig
                        Developer

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                        • dkendigD Offline
                          dkendig
                          last edited by

                          Here's my test scene and a render using the UV Tools plugin.


                          Scene (had to compress it)


                          render

                          Devin Kendig
                          Developer

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                          • andybotA Offline
                            andybot
                            last edited by

                            Hey Devin,

                            Thanks, I remember you posted that tip a long time back on the old asgvis forum. It's been a useful plugin for me too.
                            It's good to keep in mind that any uv mapping done in sketchup is generally what you will see in vray. Also look at the artisan plugin, it has some nice material brush tools too. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=34868

                            Andy

                            http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/

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                            • dkendigD Offline
                              dkendig
                              last edited by

                              Yup, that's another option too. I have the old subdivide and smooth plugin, and will likely upgrade to artisan when I start playing with SketchUp some more. Right now I'm in Rhino mode though, so I believe this was the first time I've used the subdivide and smooth plugin since 1.49.01 of VfS was released. That test sphere took a lot longer to make than it should have. I'm getting rusty πŸ˜‰

                              Devin Kendig
                              Developer

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