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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      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
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          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
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            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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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
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              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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              • pilouP Offline
                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
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                      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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                      • pilouP Offline
                        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
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                              @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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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  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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                                        willanie
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi Driven,

                                        Interesting suggestions, but I don't think they are a better workaround then rendering Visualizer twice.
                                        In fact, making an alpha channel outside of Visualizer may result in some edge mismatch.
                                        The creation of the alpha channel in Visualizer was refined to the point where compositing in paint software like Gimp or Photoshop works without any edge fringing.

                                        willanie

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                                          driven
                                          last edited by

                                          the color by layer ones is a Visualizer export...

                                          Layer setting 'Color by Layer'
                                          Vis setting export png trans background...
                                          re-done as I hadn't locked to SU...
                                          only the window glass still shows...
                                          EDIT:
                                          this is color by layer, use view size 2d png export non-transparent bg...for comparison...

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

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                                            willanie
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Driven,

                                            I didn't think of using color by layer set to black.
                                            Problem is, this mode doesn't effect the background sky in Visualizer.
                                            So you could get something like the attached image.
                                            Even if you use Visualizer a second time, as I suggested, could potentially result in edge fringing. Visualizer processes a saved image with alpha to minimize edge fringing and this would not happen in a de-speckled render.

                                            willanie


                                            color by layer set to black

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