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    • pixelcruncherP Offline
      pixelcruncher Extension Creator
      last edited by

      @ntxdave said:

      Thanks for sharing the release plans. πŸ‘ πŸ‘

      Just hoping I will be able to use with SU 2020 and that it will be something I can afford. πŸ˜„

      Yes, I'm looking into supporting SU2020. It will be part of one of the upcoming releases.

      And yes, I plan to offer great software that everyone can afford. Of course with a discount for premium members.

      Cheers,
      Thomas

      I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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      • P Offline
        pc10pc Newcomers
        last edited by

        Hi,
        I'm on SU 21.1.332 and having the same issues with toolbar not showing up.

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        • pixelcruncherP Offline
          pixelcruncher Extension Creator
          last edited by

          @pc10pc said:

          Hi,
          I'm on SU 21.1.332 and having the same issues with toolbar not showing up.

          Hi,

          Could you check if you can get it via these instructions? If that doesn’t help, send me a private message.

          Cheers,
          Thomas

          I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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          • majidM Offline
            majid
            last edited by

            I watched your YouTube video and seems the engine is great. Just installed and seems I have a problem. Maybe because I have no SCF plugin toolbar installed.

            PS: it solved, I installed the SCF plugin and now I have the Rayscraper!


            Capture.PNG

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            • majidM Offline
              majid
              last edited by

              It works charmingly!


              Capture2.PNG

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              • Rich O BrienR Offline
                Rich O Brien Moderator
                last edited by

                @majid said:

                It works charmingly!

                I'd love to see you try this on it....

                https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=76396&p=693038#p692999

                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                • majidM Offline
                  majid
                  last edited by

                  @rich o brien said:

                  @majid said:

                  It works charmingly!

                  I'd love to see you try this on it....

                  https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=76396&p=693038#p692999

                  Okay Rich,... I am working on it... πŸ‘ 13% progress..


                  aa.jpg

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                  • majidM Offline
                    majid
                    last edited by

                    29% without any denoising and I believe it is good enough.
                    I stopped it on 49% progress and it seems good (despite without any denoising)


                    xx.jpg


                    49% progress

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                    • pixelcruncherP Offline
                      pixelcruncher Extension Creator
                      last edited by

                      @majid said:

                      It works charmingly!

                      It's great to see a talented artist like you taking an interest in Rayscaper! I saw you sent me some feedback, so I will go and digest that.

                      Cheers,
                      Thomas

                      I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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                      • jo-keJ Offline
                        jo-ke
                        last edited by

                        due to the sunset of twilghtrender I stumbled across this new alternative.

                        downloaded and licensed it today.

                        looks promissing....

                        http://www.zz7.de

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                        • jo-keJ Offline
                          jo-ke
                          last edited by

                          Is there a tutorial for glass and emitter materials?

                          http://www.zz7.de

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                          • Rich O BrienR Offline
                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                            last edited by

                            @jo-ke said:

                            Is there a tutorial for glass and emitter materials?

                            It has a Glass shader in the Material Type dropdown[1]

                            https://i.imgur.com/fijdO8c.png

                            and for the Disney shader you can enable Emmission for geometry[2]

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                            • jo-keJ Offline
                              jo-ke
                              last edited by

                              Thank you: glas, is solved.

                              emitter not. with "blackbody emission" I don't get the submenu

                              also hidden layers are rendered. how can I avoid this?


                              test.jpg


                              test2.jpg

                              http://www.zz7.de

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                              • pixelcruncherP Offline
                                pixelcruncher Extension Creator
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                emitter not. with "blackbody emission" I don't get the submenu

                                You should be able to to open the submenu by clicking the chevron or text (1). You can expand everything by clicking the plus button (2):

                                SketchUp_1yUTapC1Qw.png

                                SketchUp_30LNqL5bAd.gif

                                @unknownuser said:

                                also hidden layers are rendered. how can I avoid this?

                                Hidden objects / tags / layers isn't supported yet in the alpha version. It will be there for the 1.0 version.

                                Cheers,
                                Thomas

                                I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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                                • jo-keJ Offline
                                  jo-ke
                                  last edited by

                                  thank you. I didn't see this. solutions are so simple....

                                  next problems:

                                  is it possible to do an emitter with textures? like in my example the sign of the tramway?

                                  why can't I get rid of the blue textures? they are textured in SU and all faces are frontfaces


                                  test4.png

                                  http://www.zz7.de

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                                  • pixelcruncherP Offline
                                    pixelcruncher Extension Creator
                                    last edited by

                                    @jo-ke said:

                                    is it possible to do an emitter with textures? like in my example the sign of the tramway?

                                    This is also planned for one of the upcoming releases but it's not there yet.

                                    @jo-ke said:

                                    why can't I get rid of the blue textures? they are textured in SU and all faces are frontfaces

                                    Hmm, this usually means that the face doesn't have a material assigned to it. Or the image textures couldn't be found.

                                    Can you select the material in the Rayscaper viewport with the material picker?

                                    SketchUp_M1qe4CZdsR.png

                                    Once, selected can you try to reload the material via the reload button? This will refresh the material, resetting it to the latest changes made in SketchUp.

                                    SketchUp_320jbL7KED.png

                                    If all that fails, can you send me the scene? You can zip up the scene with all Rayscaper settings and textures using the following button on the Rayscaper toolbar:

                                    SketchUp_t3Eg0AVbJx.png

                                    You can either send me a private message or send it to thomas@rayscaper.com.

                                    I appreciate your patience!

                                    Cheers,
                                    Thomas

                                    I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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                                    • jo-keJ Offline
                                      jo-ke
                                      last edited by

                                      I installed your app at my notebook at home.

                                      unfortunately sketchup is crashing after using your plugin...

                                      maybe my notebook is to old...

                                      everytime i load a file worked with your app sketchup crushes.

                                      I removed your plugin and fortunately sketchup works again.

                                      so I have to ry tomorrow in the office.

                                      http://www.zz7.de

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                                      • pixelcruncherP Offline
                                        pixelcruncher Extension Creator
                                        last edited by

                                        @jo-ke said:

                                        I installed your app at my notebook at home.

                                        unfortunately sketchup is crashing after using your plugin...

                                        maybe my notebook is to old...

                                        everytime i load a file worked with your app sketchup crushes.

                                        I removed your plugin and fortunately sketchup works again.

                                        so I have to ry tomorrow in the office.

                                        Yikes, that's not good! Sorry about that.

                                        • Rayscaper creates a log file under your home directory named SUEX_Rayscaper.log (e.g., C:/Users/Thomas Loockx/SUEX_Rayscaper.log). Do you mind getting me that file?
                                        • What version of SU are you using?

                                        I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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                                        • jo-keJ Offline
                                          jo-ke
                                          last edited by

                                          I am using 23.1.340 64 bits

                                          arguments; SUEX_Rayscaper
                                          Current dir; C;\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp
                                          File verbosity level; 0
                                          date       time         ( uptime  ) [ thread name/id ]                   file;line     v| 
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.430 (   0.034s) [main thread     ]             loguru.cpp;770   INFO| Logging to 'C;\Users\Kehlj/SUEX_Rayscaper.log', mode; 'w', verbosity; 0
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.613 (   0.218s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;73    INFO| Running Rayscaper version 0.7.3
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.218s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;74    INFO| System info; Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (4 cores), 31 GB ram
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.218s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;75    INFO| OS info; Windows 10 (64-bit)
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.219s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;80    INFO| Host app; SketchUp Pro, 23.1.340
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.614 (   0.219s) [main thread     ]SketchupWindowFloater.c;28    INFO| Found SketchUp window handle (title; SketchUp); 0000000000511A04
                                          2024-01-04 20;15;43.629 (   0.233s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
                                          2024-01-04 20;17;31.214 ( 107.818s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
                                          2024-01-04 20;17;31.214 ( 107.818s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
                                          2024-01-04 20;17;32.864 ( 109.468s) [main thread     ]             loguru.cpp;485   INFO| atexit
                                          

                                          http://www.zz7.de

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                                          • pixelcruncherP Offline
                                            pixelcruncher Extension Creator
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks for sharing the log!

                                            Based on the PC specs I see in the log, Rayscaper should just work fine for your laptop. Also from the logs it looks like the application runs fine for 109 seconds and then just exits, so no crash (note: I'm not disputing it's not crashing on your laptop, just that it seems like it didn't crash based on this log file).

                                            A couple of questions:

                                            • Does SU crash for you immediately if you start up, or if you load a specific file, or if you start rendering that file?
                                            • Does it work for any other files, or for the default empty scene?
                                            • Do you mind reproducing the crash again and sending me another log file?

                                            Appreciate your help!

                                            Cheers,
                                            Thomas

                                            I'm the developer of Rayscaper: https://rayscaper.com/ - Fast and easy rendering for SketchUp.

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