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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
      Rich O Brien Moderator
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      😲

      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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      • cmeedC Offline
        cmeed
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        Looks amazing!

        this is a tutorial for lighting like koola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vdNg1D87FY
        I've not seen any videos like this so far - basic and simple - the post processing volume is where its at! its also a good indication of how long it takes for the lights to build as he/she doesn't stop the recording (obviously you can scroll forward)

        this guys good too UE4 Arch - his channel is - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjpFOf-YWpois6WVG6hqXNQ

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        • jenujacobJ Offline
          jenujacob
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          Chk out this video from the GDC event. Tim's excitement for arch viz is high. Hopefully, Unreal would do something for the arch viz community to streamline asset creation from Sketchup. The google warehouse is a treasure trove for game developers!!!

          Oh and Titan X was released in this presentation. Pretty cool of Jen-Hsun Huang! 😉

          Here's another video presentation of their kite level. 100 Sq miles of area with full foliage and physical materials and lighting. Their pipeline is pretty intense. Most of these features will be available in their next release of 4.8.

          Pretty excited, but the learning curve is pretty huge!!!

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          • jenujacobJ Offline
            jenujacob
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            this is nice!!!

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              miikka1978
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              Do you have any idea what this means? I don't know too much about uvmapping/unwrapping but there are some comments that this would remove the need for that.

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              OTOY unveils OctaneRender 3: Massive upgrade to the world’s best GPU renderer defines the state of the art for VFX in films, games and beyond • OTOY

              World’s best production-ready GPU renderer in OctaneRender 3, versatile ORBX media format for navigable, baked 3D scenes, OctaneRender Cloud for the next generation of content creation and distribution, and even greater support of third-party applications make up OTOY’s largest ever update SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 17, 2015 – Cloud graphics company, OTOY Inc., today …

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              "Advanced live texture baking: A feature that’s most beneficial for use in real-time game engines, OctaneRender 3 supports unbiased GPU texture baking (UV or volumetric) of global illumination, spherical harmonics and 8D light fields in Unreal Engine 4 and Unity plugins."

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              • cmeedC Offline
                cmeed
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                Have a look at this -

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                HAL Archviz Toolkit - Marketplace submission

                Hello fellow Architects & Arch Viz Artits! I’d like to show everyone what we’ve submitted to the Marketplace. This is a copy of the post I did in the marketplace forum. I’m re-posting here because I’m not sure how many p…

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                Epic Developer Community Forums (forums.unrealengine.com)

                they've submitted this to the marketplace - if it gets on it'll be $85
                looks like what we all need.
                Now.... how do we get Sketchup and Unreal to talk?

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                  AcesHigh
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                  @kaas said:

                  Cmeed: Using Roadkill until now didn't work for me. If I had the uv's layed out right in Roadkill, re-imported the uv's in Sketchup (using SketchUV plugin I bought a long while ago), exporting the model as fbx from Sketchup; for some reason, that fbx export resulted in several small copies of the original texture that I was unwrapping.

                  Doesn't make sense to me. In Skecthup there's only one material and still several fragments of the same texture are exported.

                  Importing in Unreal shows the same problem: errors and multiple textures for the same element...

                  that is the same thing that happens to me when importing Sketchup files in other programs after using SketchUV or TruPaint...

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                  • K Offline
                    kaas
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                    @cmeed said:

                    Now.... how do we get Sketchup and Unreal to talk?

                    I use Unreal & SketchUp. My goal isn't realism but a nice atmosphere. I wrote quickstart on the UE forum a while back: http://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?69976-Unreal-(-amp-Sketchup)-in-the-architectural-design-process%26amp;p=293511%26amp;viewfull=1#post293511
                    Maybe not the quality you desire but it will get you going and give you better idea about the SU-UE workflow.

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                    • cmeedC Offline
                      cmeed
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                      Play up tools - might be cooking up something for unreal4.

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                      • jenujacobJ Offline
                        jenujacob
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                        @cmeed said:

                        Play up tools - might be cooking up something for unreal4.

                        Indeed they are!! 😄
                        http://playuptools.blogspot.ae/2015/10/unreal-engine-4-exporter-teaser.html

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                        • cmeedC Offline
                          cmeed
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                          Great stuff!
                          Curious to see how play up tools will get round the uv issues when exporting from sketchup. I'm very excited though.

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                          • cmeedC Offline
                            cmeed
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                            Play up tools as mentioned are making a SU 2 Unreal4 exporter. Not sure if this will speed things on but they having a vote to see what games engine people use. Use the link above and vote for unreal4

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                            • pilouP Offline
                              pilou
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                              Do you make something special or have you some tricks for loading this prog and launch it? (UE4)

                              I am registered - loading it etc...
                              But when I launch it I am not accepted by their server!

                              You must buy something even it's a personnal free version?

                              The Helper page is a nightmare!
                              https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Troubleshooting_Launcher_Problems

                              error_ue4.jpg

                              It's a pity because it seems more friendly than Unity! 😄

                              Frenchy Pilou
                              Is beautiful that please without concept!
                              My Little site :)

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                                kaas
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                                @pilou said:

                                ...I am registered - loading it etc...
                                But when I launch it I am not accepted by their server!

                                It's free. I have been using it and didn't need to pay anything. Look on the forum's, not in the wiki.
                                Your connection problem has been reported before:
                                https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?75206-Error!-Connection-to-server-failed

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
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                                  Thx for the super trick! 😎

                                  Excellent! The "-http=wininet" at the end of the Properties of the Right Click on the Epic icon works fine! 👍
                                  Just now loading the 5.8 Gigas ! 💚

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                    kaas
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                                    @pilou said:

                                    ...The "-http=wininet" at the end of the Properties of the Right Click on the Epic icon works fine! ..
                                    Nice it works now. Strange though you needed the trick. At my system (Win7X64) it just worked fine without it.

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                                    • cmeedC Offline
                                      cmeed
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                                      Great that it works pilou!
                                      I'm still trying to get a simple model to work

                                      There are many things that can go wrong but try here

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                                      (youth.be)

                                      This person seems to have got simple stuff in.

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                                      • K Offline
                                        kaas
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                                        @cmeed said:

                                        ...I'm still trying to get a simple model to work ...

                                        I did several (simple) projects already with UE and SU so maybe I can help. Could you post the model?
                                        Also, the youtube link doesn't work for me?!

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                                        • cmeedC Offline
                                          cmeed
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                                          Try this.
                                          http://youtu.be/PyYRz9h-eJU

                                          Kaas - i'll get back to you I need to have a bit more of a place tried a couple of times and it was sort of working last night.

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                                            kaas
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                                            @cmeed said:

                                            Try this.....

                                            I just had a look at the videos. Its nice he/she did take the effort to try to explain his/her 'workflow'. I would suggest though to look for another source of information to really get a really useful workflow going for more complex scenes, nice results and acceptable calculation times.

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