Rayscaper New Releases
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By dragging the Rayscaper window to the bottom of the screen, it seems to be holding... I'll let you know in about an hour and a half.
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@Krass Sorry about that, it's a brand new feature (implemented two weeks ago), so rough around the edges. It would be great if you could also send the logs for this crash?
Pro tip, first render out a small resolution, low samples per pixel animation. They you get an immediate feel for it without having to wait too long
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yes I'm now rendering with default SPP, anyway this new feature is such I giant step, i'm so exited...
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@Krass Thanks for the kind words! Great to hear that you like it!
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My first animation with Rayscaper!
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@Krass Nice, thanks for sharing! Super cool to see this result.
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Hey, Rayscaper users!
Rayscaper 0.9.83 Beta is available. You can get it via:
- The SketchUcation store.
- Direct download: Rayscaper_0.9.83_Beta.rbz.
I recommend upgrading to the latest version.
What Changed?
- Add Nishita sky sun tracking from SketchUp shadows. The procedural sky will now automatically follow the sun position set in SketchUp's shadow settings, making it easier to match lighting conditions across your workflow. You can enable this via the menu
Extensions > Rayscaper > Sync Nishita with Sun. See Syncing with SketchUp Sun for more details. - Improve environment power controls with logarithmic sliders. Environment intensity is now easier to adjust precisely across a wide range of values.
- Fix crash when changing render resolution. Rayscaper will no longer crash when you adjust the resolution settings.
- Fix alpha textures to use linear color space. Alpha channels in textures now render with correct transparency values.
Help Me Build the Community
If you like Rayscaper, please share your renders (final or work-in-progress, it doesn't matter)! This is motivating
and helps me showcase its capabilities to new users.Follow me on X.
Happy Rendering!
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What tool can you use to create an animation that works with Rayscaper?
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Any plans to ,ake Rayscaper work withAnamator?
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@ntxdave i think it only works with scene transitions. Wait for pixel cruncher answer about Animator.
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How can I make a water material ?
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@ntxdave Like @krass mentioned, it only works for SketchUp scene animations. Fredo animator is not supported yet. Here is a guide on how to animate regular SketchUp scenes: https://rayscaper.com/guides/animation/
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@Alattab forwater may be try a transparent or glass material and try several wave normal maps in the normal slot, play with material scale
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here a test with PBR mode/color/no roughness/ and this normal map
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@pixelcruncher Hello ! This is great,
You managed to fix the resolution change issue, and you did it very quickly, thank you! I'm now going to test my new animation in HD. I really like the subtle little changes you made to the interface; it's very well thought out: the fact that you only have to click once on the value field is perfect.And I really like the interface in general. The scenes load very quickly...
However, it's true that being able to export the project as a workable zip file on another machine without having to remap missing textures would be ideal.
Let me give you a specific example: I don't like modeling and preparing the Rayscaper render on my laptop. But it will be much faster for rendering animations, so I need to export the project from the PC to the laptop.
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@Krass That's some nice looking water! And a great workflow.
I did a similar experiment. I used a glass material with an index of refraction of 1.33 (the IOR of water). I used a water texture I found online.
Here's how I set it up in SketchUp and Rayscaper:
And there are the details of the glass material:
I found the water texture here: https://www.cadhatch.com/seamless-water-textures
One of the upcoming releases, I will try to add a water material. It's such a common item in Archviz that I think Rayscaper should have one.
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
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@Krass said in Rayscaper New Releases:
@pixelcruncher Hello ! This is great,
You managed to fix the resolution change issue, and you did it very quickly, thank you! I'm now going to test my new animation in HD. I really like the subtle little changes you made to the interface; it's very well thought out: the fact that you only have to click once on the value field is perfect.Cheers! Glad to hear the bug is fixed.
And I really like the interface in general. The scenes load very quickly...
Nice! I did put some work into improving the interface during the holidays.
However, it's true that being able to export the project as a workable zip file on another machine without having to remap missing textures would be ideal.
Let me give you a specific example: I don't like modeling and preparing the Rayscaper render on my laptop. But it will be much faster for rendering animations, so I need to export the project from the PC to the laptop.
Fair enough, I'm aware that this working 100% correct is super important. Expect this to be fixed in one of the upcoming releases.
Regards,
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I'm trying to find a plugin to extract all textures from a SU model, I had one before, I think it is from Eneroth...
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eneroth material Extractor
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