Hi Solo and everyone I think I will join youonthis Blender trip...
I myself many times tried to jump from SU to Blender or SU to Modo, but always switched back to SU. Why? Mostly because I work on architectures and I feel so well an easy for that in Sketchup. Anyway if I want to go further on architectural renderings: HighPoly,UVs, integrated renderer etc... Blender feels a good choice

I recently booked to Andrew Price Architectural academy and I feel it very nice and exciting, if only I get more time to spend on it of course

I now always get bugsplat when using the obj importer...
I am on Win7Pro64 SU7
Anyone with the same problem?

@ppoublan said:

ok I got it.
Need to publish new version.
Really strange that ruby code (without SU calls) not interpreted the same way.
Will fix this today.
Yours
Pascal

Thanx to help Pascal
I will wait for it

Thanx to help TIG

I have saved all leaves components in version 7 and now I get it to start...
Anyway it creates the trunk but no leaves and I get this error message from ruby console:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method hue2rgb' for #<SketchupExtension::M3darcstudiotree::Cf3das_Colorset:0xf8a1cf0>> (eval):1774:in hsltorgb'
(eval):1648:in initialize' (eval):1628:in each'
(eval):1628:in initialize' (eval):2559:in new'
(eval):2559:in drawstems' (eval):2394:in draw'
(eval):667:in f3das_loadconfiguration' (eval):4443:in require'
(eval):4443:in `call'

@ppoublan said:

@archigrafix said:

Yes Kris nothing happens at all...just frustration

Hi Kris,
Sorry for that but I only tested it on SU8 as dev started after SU8 was available. Do not know what functions are not correctly supported by previous versions.
Do you get at least the menu in plugins ?
I you activate the Ruby console, do you get some messages in the console ?
Yours
Pascal

Yes the menu is there...When I choice "Make tree" it returns:

Error: #<RuntimeError: Can't insert empty component.>
(eval):1050:in load' (eval):1050:in initialize'
(eval):1042:in each' (eval):1042:in initialize'
(eval):1217:in new' (eval):1217:in initialize'
(eval):653:in new' (eval):653:in f3das_loadconfiguration'
(eval):651:in each' (eval):651:in f3das_loadconfiguration'
(eval):4443:in require' (eval):4443:in call'

Hope you can help

Yes Kris nothing happens at all...just frustration

Doesnt seem to work with sketchup 7???

@rich o brien said:

The guys at Glare are running quite an inviting sale this month.

I'm stoked about the rendering Section Planes from SketchUp

Not to mention the Blender integration

Yes very interesting option...hope other softwares will soon get this.
Anyway I find indigo is still a little expensive IMO

I can also now announce that after some licensing changes we're now able to offer Bloom Unit for free with one hour of cloud time

great news Damble!!!
So we can go for a sort of demo mode first hour.

Nice to see you so reactive about our demands. I sure things are gonna boost for you with that new approach.
Now I cant wait to take a look at Bloom unit

i get to their website but dont see any way to contact or interact with them via support email or user forums. I think we get some question advice or else to share and would be useful in both ways...

Danble
as elmi said: why the initial 299$? I second on that
"Felix" renderer" based on maxwell works the same way but I dont remind of an initial fee...

Thanx for all the precisions Damble!

I took time to have look at their website and explanations.
It is driven by Iray.
Concept feels interesting. A little too busness oirented for me but the potential seems interesting.
However at this price I personnaly would appreciate a demo version (with free rendering time) and all the "online" tools: ok for a paying time, but it should be an option. Local rendering should be possible (on user PC...)

Cool Illustration Andybot!
So everyone can understand what we are after!
Professionnal in architectural photo field always utilize such tool (In french it is called "un objectif à décentrement") It keeps the perspective height (usualy human eye) keep all the subject in the photo and vertical lines stay "vertical".
That is exactly what you do in sketchup when you activate "two point perspective". When it is on you can pan the image whitout loosing the perspective point of View.
It is a crucial tool in Archviz.
Take a look at Thea or Maxwell. the use ot this tool is absolutly obvious...In VFSU it is much less IMO!
but andybot approach does work

Andibot

I tested with one of my scene and it works fine. I put shift = 0.27
However I dont know the theory behind that, and how values of shift is related to the camera position or target..?

TOMDC

I tested camera RB: interesting tool but I dont know hoow you use it to solve the problem Of camera shifting?

Does anyone gets a workaround to use camera shifting possibility:
It is an absolute need in Archviz rendering so I cant imagine nobody found a way...
By camera shift I mean:
Puting camera at human eye (1,60meter), keeping vertical lines but being able to view the entire model (from street to roof...)without losing verticality of the lines. SU does it very well with 2pt perspective, but that kind of view is not supported by Vray. Using camera Shift in VraY GUI doesnt produce vertical lines...

Really something that is missing for exterior architecture.
I cant understand the interest of Lens shift in VFSU when it behaves the way it does. I cant even admit theres no workaround to do what we are after...it is a so obvious tool!

RFOX...Personnaly I always find it suspicious about a soft when there's no démo version.
To say the truth, and without presuming qualities of the soft, many users invested in a soft we are claiming a demo version for so many weeks.
Dont take it to hard e-on team but how can it be? IMO it demonstrates a strange lack of reactivity!

in the very right order IMO:
Twilight
Thea
Kerkythea
Vray
...But far before the others I'd say twilight because you get no boring on exporting your model and no endless material setup!