Bella Render
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Thanks for your answers - even if it sounds like a max plugin is still far away
Just to be clear... "daily build" was just referring to the term that is used by the corona team for their frequent unofficial releases. In fact they are more weekly or even monthly releases as you suggest. So, yes, weekly or monthly builds are surely enough (like in maxwell alpha/beta days
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Ah, I see, well in case it is of interest, I do post all builds & release notes here: https://bellarender.com/builds. From time to time I then promote a build there to the regular download page.
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Ah, ok... so it's already there. Nice.
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I just started using bella render and I want to make one of my renders either 4k or 8k as I am using the rendering to make some graphics for my school project. How do I do this? How long will it take to make the resolution this good?
Thanks
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It would depend on being licensed, in demo mode it is limited to 720p (1280x720) by area, while when licensed there is no resolution limitation. To change the resolution, since this rudimentary version of the plugin just exports using the Sketchup viewport size, you would stop the render in Bella GUI and go to the Camera panel, where you will fine the output resolution of the camera. As for how long it will take, that depends on many factors, such as the difficulty of the lighting scenario, as well as the speed and quantity of CPU cores on the machine.
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About the Standalone (demo)
I have a DAE file from SKetchUp
All is well imported Volumes+ SU Material Textures...
But how to render all ? Seems path accept only one image texture...
(no problem in the Integrated BellaRender version inside SU)
We can't rotate the object inside BellaRender in the Integrate SU Version ?
Alt + Mouse ?
but in the Standalone...i must miss something!
(or Demo don't accept many materials ? File DAE + Images Textures linked)
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I am not sure if the importer we use supports multi-materials in DAE, but I can check it out. I also notice that it is not picking up the textures unless I move them next to the DAE (instead of having them in a subdirectory), so I'll put it on my list to check that too.
That said, rather than use DAE, it will be much better to use our plugin to write a Bella file from SketchUp. It will produce a better file, support multi-materials, other settings (environment, etc), and so forth.
Regarding rotating (or scaling/moving) objects once the file is in Bella GUI, you can do that by selecting a parent transform (more info here), and changing its Position/Rotation/Scale in the Editor panel:
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Thx for the infos i will see that...
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For Standalone with an OBJ file, it's the same problem of path...
[WARN] Failed to find texture: belltwo_Textures/Dalle_effet_pierre_de_taille.PNG
[WARN] Failed to find texture: belltwo_Textures/Brique_antique_02.PNG
[WARN] Failed to find texture: belltwo_Textures/Pierre_de_maonnerie_multicolore.PNGbut I have found how to make!
You must put all in the same level! (JPG)
And so no problem of rotation!
Alas the same trick don't work for the DAE (PNG)
Another thing is the Scale from the SketchuP exported OBJ: maybe a factor 100* from the origine!
Here the Import OBJ
(with any regulates & rustic snapshot) but textures are now existing! 
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About the Integrated SKetchUP BellaRender: we can't rotate the render or IPR with Alt + Mouse or other ?
(i don't want enter values in some boards)
Any refresh when you rotate in SketchUp ?
We must re-press the Icon BellaRender inside SketchUp ? -
@pilou said:
but I have found how to make!
You must put all in the same level! (JPG)Yes, this is what I noticed too when trying your file. We use a 3rd-party library for importing, so I have to take a look and see why it is failing.
@pilou said:
Alas the same trick don't work for the DAE (PNG)
That's strange because it did work fine for me, with the DAE + textures you attached before.
@pilou said:
Another thing is the Scale from the SketchuP exported OBJ: maybe a factor 100* from the origine!
Bella's native units are meters, so you generally need to scale the parent transform of an import, depending on what is contained in the imported file. Beyond this, it is generally necessary to rotate the import too, since it may not use the same coordinate system as Bella.
@pilou said:
About the Integrated SKetchUP BellaRender: we can't rotate the render or IPR with Alt + Mouse or other ? (i don't want enter values in some boards)
In the Bella GUI, you can rotate the camera when using IPR, but not during render. You can orbit/zoom/pan the camera using key combinations similar to the application chosen in Settings > IPR > Navigation. By default it is set to Maya when just opening GUI, but Bella files written from the SketchUp plugin set it to SketchUp mode.
@pilou said:
Any refresh when you rotate in SketchUp ?
We must re-press the Icon BellaRender inside SketchUp ?There is no live connection, for this very simple plugin. When I make a full plugin, then you will have a Bella IPR inside of SketchUp, working in real time (along with materials, objects, etc), like we currently have in the Maya & Rhino plugins.
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@unknownuser said:
That's strange because it did work fine for me, with the DAE + textures you attached before.
That works but for only one texture for me!
@unknownuser said:
In the Bella GUI, you can rotate the camera when using IPR, but not during render
Perfect! Inside the "Integrated SU" !
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@pilou said:
@unknownuser said:
That's strange because it did work fine for me, with the DAE + textures you attached before.
That works but for only one texture for me!
Ah sorry, I misunderstood, yes it found the texture, but did not support per-face materials.
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