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    [Plugin] Physically-Based Rendering - v1.5.9 - 19 Apr. 2020

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    • JQLJ Offline
      JQL
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      Thea has viewport rendering which, for single monitors brings sketchup to life. Your plugin, as it is realtime, would be amazing with viewport rendering.

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        nlipovac
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        Right like that JQL, I am quite impressed by this plugin and like to Blender is Eevee this would be a great plugin for SU if it would be implemented as an overlay to SU.

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        • samuel_tS Offline
          samuel_t
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          @nlipovac said:

          Right like that JQL, I am quite impressed by this plugin and like to Blender is Eevee this would be a great plugin for SU if it would be implemented as an overlay to SU.

          By "overlay", you mean a top window a bit like PBR Material Editor? Fullscreen or splitscreen?

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            nlipovac
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            This is Thea rendering in SU window, the same thing Vray have also.

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              nlipovac
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              @nlipovac said:

              This is Thea rendering in SU window, the same thing Vray have also.


              Clipboard01.jpg

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                nlipovac
                last edited by

                It was just an idea, thank you for this that you already accomplished with this plugin. πŸ˜„

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                • samuel_tS Offline
                  samuel_t
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                  Overlay feature request is out of my skills for now. Maybe another dev can, since code is open-source.

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                  • samuel_tS Offline
                    samuel_t
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                    Thank you for your idea. πŸ˜„

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                    • JQLJ Offline
                      JQL
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                      I will talk about this case with someone...

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                      • samuel_tS Offline
                        samuel_t
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                        @jql said:

                        Thea has viewport rendering which, for single monitors brings sketchup to life. Your plugin, as it is realtime, would be amazing with viewport rendering.

                        Yeah. There is an expensive workaround: to buy several monitors. πŸ˜† More seriously, I will try to find a way to synchronize PBR Viewport with SketchUp.

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                        • filibisF Offline
                          filibis
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                          @samuel_t said:

                          • Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow!

                          Take a look at these websites for free (CC0) textures: Pixel-Furnace, CC0Textures, freepbr. You can provide link to these sites maybe?

                          I think you should indicate that we need to open a collection to use PBR materials you provided. People may not find PBR folder you generated easily.

                          In addition to 'saving, opening and creating' a model, when we "apply all changes" in the PBR material editor, Chromium pops-up and updates the view as well.

                          HDR images working fine πŸ‘ Can we rotate them somehow? That would be cool πŸ™‚

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                          • samuel_tS Offline
                            samuel_t
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                            @filibis said:

                            @samuel_t said:

                            • Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow!

                            Take a look at these websites for free (CC0) textures: Pixel-Furnace, CC0Textures, freepbr. You can provide link to these sites maybe?

                            Hello filibis, thanks a lot for these links.

                            @filibis said:

                            I think you should indicate that we need to open a collection to use PBR materials you provided. People may not find PBR folder you generated easily.

                            I added following sentence in official README:
                            Additionally, you should have a new "PBR" materials collection in "Materials" tray. Enjoy! πŸ˜‰

                            @filibis said:

                            In addition to 'saving, opening and creating' a model, when we "apply all changes" in the PBR material editor, Chromium pops-up and updates the view as well.

                            You are right. I forgot to mention this case.

                            @filibis said:

                            HDR images working fine πŸ‘ Can we rotate them somehow? That would be cool πŸ™‚

                            I don't understand. You want to rotate HDRi?

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                            • filibisF Offline
                              filibis
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                              @samuel_t said:

                              I don't understand. You want to rotate HDRi?

                              Yes. Rotating the HDRi 360Β° will change the lighting directions since HDRis gather light intensity from the brightness of pixel colours. Thus normal maps will behave accordingly.

                              Something like this:

                              https://snakehillgames.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/stonewall_twoprofiles.gif

                              Or simply to change background view:

                              https://i.stack.imgur.com/mx02K.gif

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                              • samuel_tS Offline
                                samuel_t
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                                I understand now. Thanks for the trick!

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                                • samuel_tS Offline
                                  samuel_t
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                                  A new version is available, 1.3.2.

                                  • Add macOS support. Test n' report.
                                  • Add 2 new materials in PBR library.
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                                  • samuel_tS Offline
                                    samuel_t
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                                    A new version is available, 1.3.3.

                                    • Add exposure control in Viewport.

                                    Exposure

                                    • Add one material to "PBR" library.

                                    • Disable Viewport update on save.
                                      It was too slow. I recommend to set a shortcut for menu entry "Force Viewport Update".

                                    Shortcut

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                                      peerman
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                                      Hi, I really want to test this plugin but when I install the plugin (or after restarting SU) I get the message that Chromium cannot be found "Get latest". I'm working on a Mac. I can change materials but force viewport update crashed SU. I'm also not sure how I can start a render? Is that the force viewport update or am I missing something. The help page on github is not really helping as well.

                                      I hope you can help/fix. The plugin looks promissing! Thanks!

                                      Best,
                                      Peter

                                      iMac i7 4,2GHz, 32GB RAM, OS X 10.13.5, Sketchup 2018 Pro, ArchiCAD 21, V-Ray 3.6

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                                      • samuel_tS Offline
                                        samuel_t
                                        last edited by

                                        @peerman said:

                                        Hi, I really want to test this plugin but when I install the plugin (or after restarting SU) I get the message that Chromium cannot be found "Get latest". I'm working on a Mac. I can change materials but force viewport update crashed SU. I'm also not sure how I can start a render? Is that the force viewport update or am I missing something. The help page on github is not really helping as well.

                                        I hope you can help/fix. The plugin looks promissing! Thanks!

                                        Best,
                                        Peter

                                        Hi Peter,

                                        Viewport use Chromium. Viewport opens automatically.
                                        I don't have a Mac, this is why its support may be buggy.

                                        It seems you have a problem related to path or chmod.
                                        Please open Ruby Console in SketchUp and paste this:

                                        PBR;;Chromium.executable
                                        

                                        Then give me back console answer with a screenshot.

                                        Thanks! πŸ˜‰

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                                        • samuel_tS Offline
                                          samuel_t
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                                          Hello. PBR plugin version 1.3.1 is available. πŸ˜„

                                          What's new?

                                          • Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow! πŸ˜‰

                                          • When you save, open or create a model: Viewport is automatically updated.
                                            Technically, nginx Web server has been replaced by Chromium Web browser.

                                          ❗ As part of an update, remember to disable plugin before uninstalling-reinstalling it.

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                                          • samuel_tS Offline
                                            samuel_t
                                            last edited by

                                            The new PBR plugin version (1.3.4) :

                                            • Keeps camera position in Viewport.

                                            • Increases material library to 9 elem.

                                            • Fixes an exposure issue in Viewport.

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