no, none that I can tell.
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RE: SU pro needed for Vray?
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RE: White colour instead of bluish tint?
there's also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnUEwI76Lkc
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RE: Vray for blender
Indeed! And the real-world scale is critical too for rendering - things like lighting fall-off and fog/translucency will not work right if you have the wrong scale (I was finding this out the hard way...
) It was also surprisingly hard to track down this little bit of information...
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RE: Vray for blender
Pete,
It might link from the same that Stefan posted, but anyway, here's where I started:
http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/getting-started/
Then the manual is very helpful as well to understand what each setting does.I tried, but didn't get very far with the Thea exporter. I got stuck on trying to get an animation to render.
For importing SU geometry, I've found using the SU pro 3ds exporter works the best. The main issue with the obj exporter is that the geometry is in discontinuous planes. Fine for architectural, but an issue with anything you'd want to smooth. Also, note that the default blender unit is one meter, versus 1 inch for SU.
The UV tools are a delight to use!
Andy
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RE: Podium exterior
Tree[d] is also a great tool. If you make a good map of groups of leaves, you can get a decent poly count for SU by keeping the leaf count low.
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RE: Podium exterior
Nice feel to it. I like the soft lighting you have going on. I've been impressed with your Podium renders. I tried the plugin a couple years ago and it was rather lousy then. Looks like it's come quite a ways. But you're right - you're not Bertrand - none of us are...
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RE: How come so few car modelers???
For me, it is most definitely a time issue. I would love to have time to tinker with car models, but between young children and my business in arch-vis, there is just absolutely no spare time for "fun" (or as you mention - self-inflicted pain)
Andy
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RE: How do I increase resolution...
also - as you increase the resolution - you can decrease the irradiance map min and max rates.
so you can go to -4 and -2 or -5 and -3 for the larger resolutions. There's another post somewhere with better information, but that's the gist of it. -
RE: MAXWELL PLUGIN AND SKETCHUP FOR INTERIORS
In terms of animations, twilight is a good pick as it has decent biased settings that you can use to keep frame rates to a reasonable level. I also use vray for sketchup and have had reasonable success with flythrough animation. The cost may be an issue though if you are looking in the inexpensive range. That said, I've pretty much given up on trying to render animations directly from sketchup. There are just too many roadblocks.
Best of luck.Andy
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RE: Sketchup Pro on Ebay
I don't know about licensing terms for SU pro, but a lot of software specifically prohibits resale... just FYI.
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RE: Vray for blender
Hey Stefan,
Excellent! Glad you are making some progress. The more I am using Blender, the more impressed I am with its capabilities.
As for vray in blender, I am rendering various test scenes that I have from vfsu, and trying to match the settings. I am finding that v/b is significantly faster than vfsu to render the same scene. I can't say that it's scientific, but I'm getting the output to match and I think I have the settings matched as best as I can. Anyway, it's yet another learning curve, but I am finding a lot to love.
As for control of the scenes and model in blender, it's night and day from sketchup.
Andy
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RE: Please share your DWG/DXF import tips
Here's a flatten command (that I use very successfully) for using in ACAD LT. This is because flatten and overkill are available only in full ACAD.
http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?20684-Z-Co-ordinate-Flatten-command
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RE: Please share your DWG/DXF import tips
@edson said:
I draw a simple rectangle and try again the import action an voila: it works.
I've noticed that the dwg is not grouped if the file is empty. If I draw something (like a rectangle) or I do a second import, the dwg is grouped as a component. I've been taking to doing the rectangle bit just so I get a component in import instead of loose geometry.
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RE: Vray not working
@damaiyanto said:
but then if it is the light cache , does it mean there's no hope for using it?
If you figure out which materials are slowing it down, you could try adjusting those problem materials (fewer subdivisions, use bump instead of displacement, etc.) then try LC again.
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RE: Vray not working
You'll get less calculation of reflected light. The light cache bounces light around the model and helps with indirect light. The irradiance map also does this, which is why it's not critical to have the LC. At least as far as I understand. I'm sure there is a more technical explanation out there, I just know the generalities...
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Interior images...
Nice work!
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RE: Vray for sketchup help need it
Try setting sun size to "90" and increase your shadow subdivisions to 20 or 30.
You can also reduce your sun intensity to .02 or .002 and increase you GI multiplier (without the TexSky, make sure you have default lights checked in global options.)
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RE: Dassault buying sketchup?
I dunno Jason. I get the feeling you're annoyed about having a free user base. Like Csaba, I wouldn't have "found" Sketchup if it weren't free. This is Google's marketing strategy, so why pine for some tiered approach? I'm sure that would be changed with a different ownership.
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RE: Dassault buying sketchup?
@jason_maranto said:
Also it should be said that free version users can move on from SketchUp much more easily than I can since they have far less invested than I (or any other Pro version users) do -- there are alot of free packages out there and I imagine if SketchUp were to become pay-only some users would upgrade, but most would simply move on to the next free package that suited them.
Jason - you keep discounting the value of SU free version. I would pay for the software in a heartbeat as it is essential to my workflow. But it's free and the uses I have only require the free version. Why would I pay for things I don't need? Just because you bought it doesn't mean others don't value it too.