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    • B Offline
      Bob Bean
      last edited by

      Wondering if there are any tricks to lose the shadows.
      When doing an interior render without a ceiling/roof i get the sun/sky shadows and with a ceiling it is pretty dark in there!

      cheers
      Bob

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        Krisidious
        last edited by

        I noticed too... I went to 12:00 noon sun over o,o,o located model.

        By: Kristoff Rand
        Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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          willanie
          last edited by

          Hi Bob and Krisidious,

          Yes with the sun and sky currently being the only light sources, interiors can be pretty dark.
          For now you can open Window/EntityInfo for an object or group and toggle off the "Cast Shadows" option.

          Will

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            Krisidious
            last edited by

            I'll try that Willanie

            By: Kristoff Rand
            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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              willanie
              last edited by

              Hi john,

              Please try out the latest Mac download which fixes this issue.

              https://getvisualizer.com/downloads

              @driven said:

              the latest download is crashing both v13 and v14 on my mac...

              are any of the dev team members here?

              john

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                willanie
                last edited by

                Visualizer1.3 has an enhanced materials mode ... its the icon at the top of the window that looks like an arrow line reflecting. Enhanced material mode recognizes many of the built in Sketchup materials and assigns appropriate reflection settings. As always ease of use is the goal so its all auto magic settings but if you want to tweak things take a look at this link for a brief but concise description.
                https://getvisualizer.com/blog/enhanced-materials.html

                Attaching an example image render with enhanced mode on.

                When enhanced mode is on the glossy reflections will sometimes propagate bright speckles also called fireflies. For this you can use the de-noising modes to filter them out. The de-speckle icon looks like random dots and is next to the enhanced mode icon.

                As was mentioned in another post Visualizer1.3 is the last version of this renderer and is now free.


                Visualizer with enhanced mode ON

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                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  https://www.getvisualizer.com/

                  That is one of the more easy free in use that is existing for SUre...! 👍 😎 😎

                  Vizu.jpg

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

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                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    OK It's so cool that I will make for the fun the French Version of your blog/ FAQ site! 😉
                    I have made yet some other render sites! 😒
                    Podium , Twillight
                    LightUp Manual The official site of LightUp (will appear in French only following your geographic position! )
                    etc...

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

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                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Started! 😄

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

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                        easykhan
                        last edited by

                        Hello guys,

                        Is there a way to change the color rendered by Visualizer 1.3 for foreground, for sky and ground ?

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                          willanie
                          last edited by

                          Hi easykhan,

                          There is no way to change the color of the sky and ground. Its based on a procedural sun_sky shader that changes based on time of day and year. However you can use a large sphere or cylinder with a sky image. You may want to turn off shadow casting for that object.


                          landscape image background

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                            willanie
                            last edited by

                            Another example of enhanced mode with de-speckling.
                            This sketchup file was posted to the warehouse by user Rollie W. called GLASS TABLES IN HOUSE DISPLAY. I changed to the floor from a light carpet to the built in Tile-Ceramic-multi material. Rendered for about 20 minutes on my desktop computer.


                            glass tables in house display by Rollie W.

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                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              Ok Done! ☀

                              Link Preview Image
                              Visualizer VF

                                                      Ceci est la libre adaptation du site original!

                              favicon

                              Visualizer VF (visualizervf.weebly.com)

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

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                                willanie
                                last edited by

                                c'est cool Pilou

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                                  vidy
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi Willanie,

                                  Just want to confirm about transparent background saving, when reduce noise and suppress speckle activated, i unable to save the transparent background. Is it just me or it's from visualizer v1.3?

                                  Regards,
                                  VD

                                  still so much to learn..

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                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    when reduce noise and suppress speckle activated, i unable to save the transparent background

                                    Same result than you but I suppose that is normal, as you can have the background on the more speedy mode!

                                    Something funny seems the Icone of the "Folder" is used only for choose (and remember) name's text beginning and format
                                    but not for save the file itself! Even the button "Save" is shown! 😉

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

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                                      willanie
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Vidy and Pilou,

                                      Yes unfortunately the alpha channel is disabled when using the de-noising or de-speckling.
                                      The save file dialog (the icon is a small arrow head pointing down next to the file folder icon) is greyed out indicating no alpha is produced.
                                      One terrible workaround is to render without de-noising to obtain an alpha channel and render again with de-noising for the RGB channels.

                                      willanie

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                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        One terrible workaround is to render without de-noising to obtain an alpha channel and render again with de-noising for the RGB channels.

                                        So what is the solution ?

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

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                                          willanie
                                          last edited by

                                          Sorry pilou that's the only workaround.

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                                            driven
                                            last edited by

                                            if your using the locked view for Visualizer, it's quite easy to make a png alpha mask with SU 2d export to the same folder for post composition?
                                            or set the layer color to black and use the color by layer export, maybe...

                                            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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