Posts made by alexandre sk

alexandre sk

Hi, I try, a lot, but failed.

I am able to get the INSTANCE name and do stuff with it but I have trouble to get the DEFINITION name

Here what i make to get the instance name and printed:

selection = Sketchup.active_model.selection
selection.each { |entity|
	value = entity.name
}
	 
 UI.messagebox("Name; " + value.to_s)

I also got the definition code but don't know what to do with it.

Thx

alexandre sk

ohhh I been looking for something like this for ages.

I noted that in sketch2013 if you turned on the shadows it make 63fps, and if you only open the file and run the command line (without make anything else), it make a more correct value. In 2014 it has no change.

ACER Notebook i7 3632QM 2.2GHZ - 6BG RAM - win 7
Intel HD 4000
22.3 FPS @ sketch 2014

ASUS Desktop i7 860 2.8Ghz - 4GB RAM - win 7 ( this processor is slower then the 3632QM above )
Geforce 8600 GT - Old but better than the HD 4000
33 FPS @ sketch 2014

So YES a better video card give better results. (At least this between these 2) I can sleep now

Now a probably will upgrade to i7 4770k and a GTX 750

alexandre sk

really like the 2 post image, table thing, interesting concept.

From what came the last picture (house)?

thx

alexandre sk

I think it's the displacement map. in general options disable displacement to try.

alexandre sk

let me check something with you

download some software that measures GPU usage. and look how much its using when you are lagging orbiting a model. You probably is using very few % of that and your processor is making all the job.

anyway 3 million edges its a LOT.

alexandre sk

I always have this question in my head: If I have a very good video card, will the GPU calculate the geometry instead the CPU?

I currently have a note with a i7 3632QM, and a intel HD4000, no dedicated video card. When dealing with very large models the GPU are using very little power while the CPU is full. I understand that the CPU is dealing with all the geometry and the GPU with texture etc. In this case i no longer need a better GPU. But if the GPU deals with geometry in very good cards its great news.

alexandre sk

beautiful engine. almost a toy. have fun

alexandre sk

Hope get well soon. take care

alexandre sk

fantastic plugin TIG! really helpful thx

but sometimes it crashed. everything disappears until a crtl+z.

excellent anyway.

alexandre sk

normally you want the fastest processor you can. skp uses only one core, so you need a fast one, and don't matter if its 2 - 4 or 6 cores.

a good video card is always good. But a HD 4000 is ok.

I heard that the old's intel graphics don't run well with sketchup. The hd4000 is newer and works very well in my home computer.

alexandre sk

ohh its was on my website but i change the folders and forget the images.

I don't have ftp access here but tomorrow i change it.

alexandre sk

fantastic! district 9 style

i like the titanium blue on the machine guns

alexandre sk

nice images. a like the details

alexandre sk

So by now the file is 13mb and I have 13368 edges and 4707 faces.

I research that sketch can handle up to 1 - 3 million edges and 1 million faces. ( not limited )
Is that right?

So I think it will continue to get bigger. a lot bigger. The small buildings will be copy (component) to save work and file size and only a few more textures.

alexandre sk

so after the array tests i realize that a need to get less entities. so the roof get flat and the cars ( even with hide layer ) is gone, only in some future renders i populate with them.

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alexandre sk

Very sim city 2000 here

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alexandre sk

Well when i was a kid a love sim city. I actually played the last one but is the exactly opposite of what I like. I like huge city's. So I started a hobby project of it.

Nothing fancy because every building has to be very low poly, the most between 30 - 90 entities. Only the roads have a little more detail. And lots of textures to give life to it.

The project have only a month maybe. It supposed to be a long term waste of time. Its look boring but is the quantity that matter here.

The city is NY based, but with a little of Tokyo, a little of LA etc.

Here "some" renders.