Has anyone tried to use the LumenRT 2015 trail version with SU 2014 pro??? I can't seem to get the Lumen plugin to show up in the plugin menu. Any thoughts

Thanks
John

@anton_s said:

I like it. Performance is very bad due to many objects, but that's what realism requires...
Good job!

Thank you. Yeah the performance is horrible, i think its all the rocks. I dabbled with unity3d for a bit to try and make a game, but that went downhill quick
Thank you again for the help

John

Finally finished my excavator with help from Anton_S and top of the model was done by "Digson" in the model warehouse. Have fun

Controls

Right track - r & f
Left track - t & g
Swing - a & d
Boom - i & k
Arm - w & s
Bucket - j & l

John

https://www.dropbox.com/s/32k497q8e5nrgxm/AES-animation-install.skp?dl=0

I'm in the same boat. There is an "export to kerkythea" so i'm trying that. I'll let you know

@anton_s said:

@vlkster said:

Also can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong with making my track in SP??

Each track piece must be divide into groups for proper collision generation. I don't want to go into details, but here is the fixed model. I hope you can figure out what you done wrong with your tracks by comparing them.
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Thank you again. Yes i saw what i did wrong with the groups and the connection with the hinges

Also can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong with making my track in SP??
Here is the model

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lwk5a6cl2k60awo/excavator%20tracks.skp?dl=0

Thanks
John

Any help to get it to run in SU 2015?

thanks
John

@solo said:

Why not try the PLE (learning version which is free) and test out for yourself, you have a decent machine so who knows

Yes, I'm downloading the PLE right now.

@Krisidious, Here is what i've done in Lumion trial.

all of my models are made in sketchup of course

@solo said:

Vue kicks the ass of any and every exterior animation software by a mile, only problem is it has it's own lingo, plays by it's own rules and you need so much computer power to run a render in decent time, unless you do not mind rendering for a week to get 1 minute animation, that is why the film industry uses Vue as they can as they use their 1000 machine render farms.

How powerful?? I have a 4790k, 32gb, gtx 980 computer

@daniel said:

Make sure you are comparing apples to apples when looking at these programs. Some of these programs are strictly rendering programs. Lumion and LumenRT both also come with components (such as plants, vehicles, characters, etc., some of which are pre-animated) to add in SU. You might also want to look at Podium.

I like the programs with components, Lumion and LumenRT. Just wish LumenRT 2015 would come out already so i can try it out. Do you know of any other programs like Lumion and LumenRT 2015??

Thanks

John