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

peerman · 12 Jun 2018, 07:23

Hi Samuel,

I get this:

PBR::Chromium.executable
/Users/peter/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/Plugins/pbr/Chromium/Mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium

I can get inside the plugin folder and find the chromium app but I can't start it. All priviliges are correct for the files read and write are set for all files within the pbr folder. Maybe if I replace the Chromium app with a newer one from the internet it works? I will try today.

Thanks!

Best,
Peter

Edit: OK, after replacing the chromium app with the latest from chromium.org the viewport is working!

samuel_t · 12 Jun 2018, 07:37

@peerman said:

Hi Samuel,

I get this:

PBR::Chromium.executable
/Users/peter/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/Plugins/pbr/Chromium/Mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium

I can get inside the plugin folder and find the chromium app but I can't start it. All priviliges are correct for the files read and write are set for all files within the pbr folder. Maybe if I replace the Chromium app with a newer one from the internet it works? I will try today.

Thanks!

Best,
Peter

Hello Peter,

File: exists. Read/Write: granted. OK. Now...

Open a Terminal in OS this time and paste this:

chmod +x '/Users/peter/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/Plugins/pbr/Chromium/Mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium'

It should make Chromium file executable.

Best regards,

samuel_t · 12 Jun 2018, 19:23

@peerman said:

[...] 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 added a Workflow section in GitHub README: https://github.com/SamuelTS/SketchUp-PBR-Plugin#workflow

samuel_t · 12 Jun 2018, 20:24

@peerman said:

Edit: OK, after replacing the chromium app with the latest from chromium.org the viewport is working!

Next PBR plugin version will include latest Chromium macOS stable version.

peerman · 13 Jun 2018, 08:33

So I played around with it a bit. A couple of things I noticed. The suns position doesn't get exported and the UVs aren't coming through correct.
I've added a screenshot. The house is exploded (was a component) but that didn't help.
It looks promising!

Best,
Peter

samuel_t · 13 Jun 2018, 11:14

@peerman said:

[...] the UVs aren't coming through correct. [...]

This is a known issue and there is a workaround.

@unknownuser said:

Texture looks weird with perpendicular lines around.

With your preferred photo editing software, resize texture image to a power of 2 in height and width (e.g. 1024x2048, 2048x2048, 4096x4096). Reimport texture image in SketchUp.

Source: https://github.com/SamuelTS/SketchUp-PBR-Plugin/blob/master/docs/help.md#in-pbr-viewport

peerman · 14 Jun 2018, 14:04

Ah thank you! I should've read the documentation better...
I will try it again.

Best,

samuel_t · 14 Jun 2018, 16:20

@peerman said:

Ah thank you! I should've read the documentation better...
I will try it again.

Best,

No problem, Peter.

Best regards,

Samuel

samuel_t · 15 Jun 2018, 23:04

v1.3.5 of PBR plugin has just been released.

Enhance macOS support.
Upgrade Chromium browsers.
Update sunlight direction. Beta
Add two materials to library.
Clarify menu and Viewport UI.
Fix camera's orbit control damping.

samuel_t · 21 Jun 2018, 21:10

PBR plugin v1.3.6 includes a library of 73 materials!
Most have been converted from texturehaven.com .
All these materials contain at least one normal map.