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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 Online
            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
                last edited by

                @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
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                          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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                            • jo-keJ Offline
                              jo-ke
                              last edited by

                              I am back in my office and have the same issue.

                              I can not open again the file of the tramway, that I saved with the render settings a day before.

                              When I open an empty skp file it works, when I open the tramwayfile su imidiatly crashs.

                              I'll send you my file via email, to inspect.

                              here is the protocol:

                              arguments; SUEX_Rayscaper
                              Current dir; C;\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp
                              File verbosity level; 0
                              date       time         ( uptime  ) [ thread name/id ]                   file;line     v| 
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.616 (   0.026s) [main thread     ]             loguru.cpp;770   INFO| Logging to 'C;\Users\KehlJ/SUEX_Rayscaper.log', mode; 'w', verbosity; 0
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.778 (   0.188s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;73    INFO| Running Rayscaper version 0.7.3
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;74    INFO| System info; Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz (4 cores), 15 GB ram
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;75    INFO| OS info; Windows 10 (64-bit)
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]      AppController.cpp;80    INFO| Host app; SketchUp Pro, 23.1.340
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.779 (   0.189s) [main thread     ]SketchupWindowFloater.c;28    INFO| Found SketchUp window handle (title; SketchUp); 0000000000030BF2
                              2024-01-05 09;16;43.788 (   0.198s) [main thread     ]       Orchestrator.cpp;90    INFO| All workers stopped
                              2024-01-05 09;16;44.019 (   0.428s) [                ]   AssLibController.cpp;74    INFO| Loaded 1133 assets in 248.82 millis
                              
                              

                              http://www.zz7.de

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                              • jo-keJ Offline
                                jo-ke
                                last edited by

                                I created a new scene, imported the same model, hit the refresh but some faces still remained blue.

                                I've sent you the file to review what's wrong.

                                http://www.zz7.de

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                                • jo-keJ Offline
                                  jo-ke
                                  last edited by

                                  next problems:

                                  I created a scene, that I ususally use for my customers.

                                  1: the drawer is not visible in render
                                  2: the renderfile is not saved.
                                  3: when I reopen the file SU again crushed
                                  4: it is not possible to recover the skp file

                                  really not a good start...

                                  If you want, I can send you the Skp


                                  test3-0.jpg


                                  test3-1.jpg

                                  http://www.zz7.de

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                                  • jo-keJ Offline
                                    jo-ke
                                    last edited by

                                    fortunately it is possible to recover the file, when opening an empty one and importing the old one....

                                    but the rayscaper- materialsettings of the model are lost

                                    http://www.zz7.de

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                                    • majidM Offline
                                      majid
                                      last edited by

                                      I am getting better at it.


                                      int1.jpg


                                      3.jpg

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

                                        That's very nice Majid. DOF is perfect.

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                                        • jo-keJ Offline
                                          jo-ke
                                          last edited by

                                          thank you Thomas:
                                          one problem is solved:

                                          a 15 year old path with a "ü" inside was the problem.

                                          I have to rename it.

                                          I took the file to another folder and I can open it.

                                          interseting: more textures are blue now, I have to refresh each texture to get rid of the blue color.

                                          and the drawer is suddenly visible.

                                          The file was able to save and this is my first result:


                                          test3-001.png

                                          http://www.zz7.de

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                                          • pixelcruncherP Offline
                                            pixelcruncher Extension Creator
                                            last edited by

                                            @jo-ke said:

                                            next problems:

                                            I created a scene, that I ususally use for my customers.

                                            1: the drawer is not visible in render
                                            2: the renderfile is not saved.
                                            3: when I reopen the file SU again crushed
                                            4: it is not possible to recover the skp file

                                            really not a good start...

                                            If you want, I can send you the Skp

                                            Do you mind sending the scene so I check why the drawer is not rendering?

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

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