Rayscaper New Releases

pixelcruncher

Hey folks,

A new Mac beta is up: Rayscaper 0.9.104. Get it here: Rayscaper for Mac

It brings the Mac up to date with the latest Windows release. What's new since 0.9.103:

Light presets with real brightness: bulbs, downlights, an LED panel, a window, the sun and more. You set a light's intensity in lumen, cd/m² or lux, and a new light starts as a real one, like a 60 W bulb.
Lights are easier to place and aim: while a light is selected, SketchUp shows the cone of a spotlight, the radius of a point light and the spread of an area light. The new Aim Light tool turns a light towards the point you click, and right-clicking a light gives a Rayscaper submenu: Edit in Rayscaper, Turn Off/On, Aim and Change Type.
More light controls: change the size of an area light in Rayscaper's light editor, and copies of a light in SketchUp keep its settings.
Material ID and Object ID render methods, and render passes (Material ID, Albedo, AO, ...) in File > Render Scenes...
Translucency in the Standard material, for curtains, lampshades and leaves lit from behind. Thin glass modelled as a single face now reflects too.
Fixes: hidden nested tag folders stay hidden when their parent folder is made visible, plus fixes for crashes when removing lights, groups and components while rendering, and a notification instead of a crash when the GPU runs out of memory on a very large render.

If you installed an earlier beta: install this one over it, then restart SketchUp.

Thanks to everyone testing, keep the feedback coming!

Cheers,
Thomas

Alattab

@pixelcruncher Sorry this plugin is not published at the moment. Probably under editing by the author. Please check later.

Krass

@pixelcruncher
My lights are back

I’m having a bit of trouble getting back into Animator... I need to figure out how to hide the editing bar during a preview.
Still, I managed to put together this little animation. The orange in the logo isn’t rendering correctly—not sure why. Make sure to set the quality to 1080p in the YouTube settings!
And if you’d like an animation for your YouTube channel to showcase this feature, I’d be happy to create one based on your instructions.

pixelcruncher

@krass Good to hear that the lights are back!

I think it's a cool concept video to show off the capabilities of Rayscaper and Fredo6 Animator! I'd definitely share it on my YouTube channel. One thing that's a bit off putting is the ugly fonts and the botched Rayscaper colors. But aside from that, I think it's pretty cool to see everything animated in this room. Also like the ambient music!

Krass

@pixelcruncher said:

I think it's a cool concept video to show off the capabilities of Rayscaper and Fredo6 Animator! I'd definitely share it on my YouTube channel. One thing that's a bit off putting is the ugly fonts and the botched Rayscaper colors. But aside from that, I think it's pretty cool to see everything animated in this room. Also like the ambient music!

yes, I was looking for an Animator logo and did not find aything... And the "Fredo6 plugin text" is terrible.
I should find the courage to redo this animation—I was in too much of a rush to release it back when I was testing out Animator.

Krass

strange difference of the color in sketchup and after rendering

pixelcruncher

@Krass I suspect that the colors are fine, but that it's overexposed. The letters' black is grey as well. Can you try to turn down the light power, or fix the exposure in post-processing?

pixelcruncher

@Alattab There's an issue with uploading RBZ files to SketchUcation right now. You can download it here: https://releases.rayscaper.com/SketchUp/Windows/Rayscaper_Win_0.9.104_Beta.rbz

Alattab

@pixelcruncher Even though the "Ground" option in the SketchUp style is set to "unchecked," I still see a green ground plane, and I cannot see the swimming pool basin.

pool water surface modeled as surface plan benath sketchup ground level , skimmer type

pixelcruncher

@alattab, can you provide screenshots or a scene? Now I'm just guessing.

Alattab

I apologize; there was an issue with the SketchUp model. I have two requests: could the watermark be made more transparent, or could the text be removed while keeping just the logo? I would prefer the text to be taken out, leaving only the logo/watermark in the corner of the screen—that would be sufficient. Also, could you create a detailed PDF document covering all the software's settings? I will continue to provide further feedback as we move forward.

One more thing: I would like a light theme option.

Attached is an image of a scene; I haven’t adjusted anything other than the water and a bit of the lighting.