Rendered in Rayscaper

Having some fun with Rayscaper

From this separate thread I ended have some play time with texturing...

Modelled using SUbD, UV unwrapped with WrapR and a quick render in Rayscaper

If you missed yesterdays announcement from Epic with their new Fab platform...

https://www.fab.com/become-a-publisher

Part of this change means the assets currently available at Quixel for free will become paid after December 2024.

To get all 18k assets just login into your account at Quixel then visit the collections area...

https://quixel.com/megascans/collections

Press F12 to open your browsers console and paste in the following js

(await (async (startPage = 0, autoClearConsole = true) => {

  const getCookie = (name) => {
    const value = `; ${document.cookie}`;
    const parts = value.split(`; ${name}=`);
    if (parts.length === 2) return parts.pop().split(';').shift();
  }

  const callCacheApi = async (params = {}) => {
    const defaultParams = {
      page: 0,
      maxValuesPerFacet: 1000,
      hitsPerPage: 1000,
      attributesToRetrieve: ["id", "name"].join(",")
    }
    const response = await fetch("https://proxy-algolia-prod.quixel.com/algolia/cache", {
      "headers": {
        "x-api-key": "2Zg8!d2WAHIUW?pCO28cVjfOt9seOWPx@2j"
      },
      "body": JSON.stringify({
        url: "https://6UJ1I5A072-2.algolianet.com/1/indexes/assets/query?x-algolia-application-id=6UJ1I5A072&x-algolia-api-key=e93907f4f65fb1d9f813957bdc344892",
        params: new URLSearchParams({ ...defaultParams, ...params }).toString()
      }),
      "method": "POST",
    })
    return await response.json()
  }

  const callAcl = async ({ id, name }) => {
    console.log(`  --> Adding Item ${id} | ${name}...`)

    const response = await fetch("https://quixel.com/v1/acl", {
      "headers": {
        "authorization": "Bearer " + authToken,
        "content-type": "application/json;charset=UTF-8",
      },
      "body": JSON.stringify({ assetID: id }),
      "method": "POST",
    });
    const json = await response.json()
    if (json?.isError) {
      console.error(`  --> **UNABLE TO ADD ITEM** Item ${id} | ${name} (${json?.msg})`)
    } else {
      console.log(`  --> ADDED ITEM Item ${id} | ${name}`)
    }
  }

  // 1. Check token exist, quixel API needs it
  console.log("-> Checking Auth API Token...")
  let authToken = ""
  try {
    const authCookie = getCookie("auth") ?? "{}"
    authToken = JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(authCookie))?.token
    if (!authToken) {
      return console.error("-> Error: cannot find authentication token. Please login again.")
    }
  } catch (_) {
    return console.error("-> Error: cannot find authentication token. Please login again.")
  }

  // 2. Get total count of items
  console.log("-> Getting Total Number of Pages....")
  const { nbPages: totalPages, hitsPerPage: itemsPerPage, nbHits: totalItems } = await callCacheApi()

  console.log(`-> Total Items to add: ${totalItems} | ${totalPages} total pages with ${itemsPerPage} per page`)
  if (!confirm(`Click OK to start adding ${totalItems} items in your account.`)) return

  // Loop
  for (let pageIdx = startPage || 0; pageIdx < totalPages; pageIdx++) {
    console.log("-> ======================= PAGE " + pageIdx + " START =======================")

    console.log("-> Getting Items from page " + pageIdx + " ...")

    const { hits: items } = await callCacheApi({ page: pageIdx })
    const aclPromises = items.map(callAcl)

    await Promise.all(aclPromises)
    console.log("-> ======================= PAGE " + pageIdx + " COMPLETED =======================")
    if (autoClearConsole) console.clear() // Fix the issue that too much log hangs the console. Set autoClearConsole = false to keep the logs

  }
})())

Hit enter and it will begin adding the assets to your account. It can take a few mins and can run into to snags. But for help on that please visit this Github...

https://gist.github.com/jamiephan/0c04986c7f2e62d5c87c4e8c8ce115fc#file-run-js

As you can see all assets were assigned to my account which saves you a ton of time!

https://youtu.be/7G3JWtHruNA

Fun little idea I saw for a fold out step for kiddos to be able to reach the sink

Further Information and usage instructions on Axyz is available here

Requirements

• LibFredo6: v14.5 or above Download Libfredo
• Sketchucation Tools v4.4.1 or above Download Sketchucation Tools
• SketchUp 2017 and above
• Platform: Windows and Mac OSX
• Licensed under Sketchucation SCFLicense (Free)

Overview

Perform transformation on selected objects with a Widget: Translation, Rotation, Scaling, Mirror

• Manipulates Guides, Edges, Faces, Images, Groups and Components
• Position Widget in the model by a simple Click or inferencing
• Transformation (translation, rotation, scaling, mirror) by Click-Drag on a widget handles
• Post-transformation adjustments via VCB and modifiers (copy and multiples, distance, angle, scale factors)

Documentation

Help is integrated in the extension, as a Quick Card.

Link to YouTube Playlist

Keybindings

TAB to cycle transformations
ALT to cycle global, local or current context axes
SHIFT to cycle individual centers
CTRL to cycle copy mode
ARROW to cycle nudge mode

Have fun!

Release Notes

1.1a - Fixed the issue of Divide (ex: 3/) for Rotation

@pilou I prefer to see Majid's natural talent for hand painted and sketched output than some AI generated stuff.

Sketchucation Tools 4.4.1 is available
Download

Release Notes:

• Web dialog improvements
• Progress and notification changes
• Path handling
• Licensing improvements
• Plugin/Extension Manager bugfixes

Most notable changes revolve around UI:

• Progress spinners for downloads
• Less dialog alerts
• New paths functionality
  

If you are running Additional Folders to manage your extension install location/s. You can now either automatically control the install path or prompt for install paths.

@Mike-Amos The current vibe is a skeleton which we will improve over time.

There's many aspects that I am not a fan of either. But the previous was too old and had many security issues we needed to constantly patch. This is huge improvement over that.

Once we get a handle on the current quirks we are seeing then we can start polishing.

That's great. It's like those old Dell business laptops but with a DAW and DJ Controller.

Did you model this? Or is it kitbashed? I want one!

Definite autumn vibes. Did you run a sharpen effect in post-pro?

@Gus-R

Everyone could use a good Stratocaster.

True, I'd rather that than to be played as a fiddle

@L-i-am You can also try Smoove that is under the native Sandbox menu

@nlipovac Its that time of year for major update, late q4 or early q1, so showcasing to paying attendees would be a good strat

@fredo6 Thanks

The New Param Dialog refuses to resize to display footer buttons on SketchUp 2023 and Windows 11 occasionally.

Some of the features, in particular the ability to load custom scripts is so powerful. This extension reminds me of Auto Hotkey.

A really nice feature would be to add Extension menu entries to the Custom Task dialog to run explicit menu commands on a file set. Something like batch running the Create 2D Face Me command in Fredo Portrait to parse through a folder of SKP files to generate billboards.

Really powerful tool nonetheless and thanks for sharing.

What renderer is that.

Lovely detail....crazy detail to be honest.

@L-i-am Only free Painter like tool I know of is ArmorPaint

https://armorpaint.org/

But getting something of the calibre of Painter for free is unlikely. If you purchase Substance Painter through Steam you circumvent the Adobe subscription model.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2718190/Substance_3D_Painter_2024/

@Rachel23 Licenses need to be activated per https://downloads.sketchucation.com/licensing/SCFLicense-Instructions_to_Users.pdf

@Box I remember that vertical stacked piece that had the human form. There was an accident where one of the glass panels shattered.

Maybe it wasn't a human form?

Either way I remember thinking that these works would so hard to render. All those light bounces and refractions.

Cool stuff though. Stained glass is still my favourite.