it's been a while but anyway

new shelf added...

a funny one by Saporiti
see first post

thanks for your comment

Hi,

@tfdesign said:

Other things you could try is opening the System Preferences, which is available under the Apple icon at the top left hand side of your screen. Click on "mouse", you will see this screen. What is your mouse wheel set to? (in red).

in the System Preferences you should also check the "Exposé & Spaces" where you can choose the different shortcut to acces the dashboard

hope this will help

Binouze

Hi Thomthom,

this triangle mean that the view of the model is not the actual one...
you've made change in the model or the style and need to render it again (but there's an "auto render" option)
You can see this triangle next to the render button in the model inspector on the right...

hope you'll understand my english...
and so happy to help you (sometimes it's good to be the one who knows )

Binouze23

Hi,

I don't know anything in the "ruby world" and all those stuff, but when I was a student and use to download a lot of "free" programs , I found a portable version of Sketchup that was made to run on flashdrive and this version included a lot of plugin (even vray).

So I don't know if you can do it just for the plugin part but I know it is possible to create a portable version of the program with all your plugin inside...
The version I downloaded at that time was completely illegal but maybe you can make this kind of work legally if you own all the license ?

Sorry to talk about "dirty" stuff here, I know it's not the Sketchucation style but I didn't share anything and I thought it could be a good solution. Anyway, feel free to delete this message and you have all my apologize if I did wrong.
(I'm also sorry for my English but it was kinda hard for me to explain this)

Binouze

Merci Pilou,

joyeuses fêtes à toi aussi...

PS: pour quel "exporteur" de pdf 3D à tu opté ?

@unknownuser said:

Ou l'art de rassembler les voisins!
La piscine!

et non... c'est la même propriété
l'annexe relie l'habitation actuelle à une grange transformée en salle de jeu...

c'est trop grand à mon gout mais bon il ont les moyens et c'est ce qu'ils veulent donc...

sorry pour le hors sujet madame mais c'est Pilou qui à commencé en premier Na !

@dverger said:

I'm pretty happy with the lawns. I made some edits since.
Where I have the greatest difficulty is with the windows. For something more realistically. I must find a way to get the transparancy and at the same time some reflections.

Salut DVERGER,

j'avais le même problème que toi au niveau des vitrages, essaye d'ajouter une source lumineuse à l'intérieur et tes vitrage devraient mieux montrer leur transparence...

désavantage de cette technique :

1. temps de rendus plus long
2. mieux vaut modéliser un brin l'intérieur si les vitres sont transparentes

voici un exemple :
dans cette vue, la nouvelle annexe est éclairée de l'intérieur = vitrage transparent et réfléchissant
la partie ancienne (sur la droite et derrière) elle n'est pas éclairée par l'intérieur = vitrage mirroir
pourtant le matériaux vray est le même...

Maintenant c'est ma solution mais étant donné que je ne m'y connait pas encore très bien dans les réglages de matériaux ca n'est surement pas la meilleure manière de faire... mais quelqu'un comme Thomtom pourra surement te donner une meilleure technique

sinon très jolies tes images, très douces, ... c'est vrai qu'il y a des différences entre le fond et l'éclairage de la scène mais vu que je suis très mauvais dans ce domaine... je ne me permettrais pas de te huer...

Hi Sketchucationers,

I test it yesterday on an iMac running Xp with bootcamp (don't have all the specs here)

Exporting from Skp to Fbx > OK (and I didn't explode anything before)
Importing Fbx in Twinmotion > OK
Collapsing the group by material in TwinMotion > OK

BUT I don't get anything in the preview window.
I mean I can see my imported model with all the groups in the file tree on the left but the main window remain all black !!!

I will post this problem on their support forum as soon as they accept my account but I post it here in case someone else here got the same issue.

Nico

PS: the original sketchup file was around 30Mb (just to give you an idea)

@thomthom said:

Note that in the latest VfSU you have render out a Material ID pass to easily generate masks that will help you.

Hi Thomthom,

can you explain quickly how to do this, or give a link to a tutorial ?
It sound very useful and I've always wanted something like that but didn't know it exist...

thanks

I usually use the component spray plugin to place my tree randomly it has an option for random rotation wich is very useful you can have a look here :

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=11746

have a nice day

Thanks HvanEssen for your render, it look nice with metal and wood...

if you want the real material > (designer's words) "...legs and table top in steel with finish in white lacquer, black lacquer, chrome or black chrome..."

• new add in 1st post: 3) Shelf - Chiku - Nick Rennie

Hi everyone,

I've been reading this forum for quite a while now, looking for answers and resources and it has been very helpful !

As long as I don't know sketchup as much as "the pros" that are living in here, I've not been able to help people in return...

So I decide to make a small contribution by sharing some pieces of "design" furniture I'm modelling to complete my architecture
(and maybe yours too )...

I'll start with 2 models of coffee table and I will continue this post by adding fresh models as often as possible

hope you'll find it usefull

1. "Prismatic Table" by Isamu Noguchi (Vitra)
   
   Coffee table - Prismatic - Isamu Noguchi (Vitra)

2. "Penny" by Busk & Hertzog
   
   Coffee table - Penny - Busk & Hertzog

3. "Chiku" by Nick Rennie
   
   Shelf - Chiku - Nick Rennie

4. "Read your Bookcase" by Saporiti
   
   Shelf - Read your book case - Saporiti.skp

Actually, I didn't work with the vray material for this image...
I was in a hurry (as usual) and I use the basic sketchup material for this render.

By the way is your glass material free from the Avgis website ?

All your experiences are really helping me, thanks again for your time...
I don't have much time to test it now but I'll try asap !

*edit :
is it this material, that you're using ?
http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=356&Itemid=439&uid=0

*

Thanks a lot Dave...

I'll give this solution a try this week and come back to you with the result.

Hope it's gonna work for me too...

@thomthom said:

What version of VfSU do you use?

version 01.05.30 and sketchup 7.1 for that image,
but I got the same problem using another version (I guess it's 1.5) and sketchup 8 on another computer.

merci pour ces précisions ... et la rapidité de ta réponse
(personnellement j'utilise "section cut face" pour mes coupes)

tant qu'on parle de ces "backfaces" j'ai posté une question dans la partie anglophone du forum à ce propos...

si tu as des idées, ca ce passe ici => http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=31037

Hi everyone,

I'm asking for your help because each time I render some glass material with Vray for SU I got reflection, but without material in it.
I mean all the object that appear in my refection are shaded like bake faces...

I join you an image to be more clear (coz' I know my english may be hard to understand)

at first I didn't really noticed this but now it kinda start boring me !

I think it may be related to a "back faces" problem, but if someone can confirm this thought, I prefer wait before painting all my back faces...

thanks...

Binouze

Bonjour Pilou,

Je me permet de faire appel à ta science, car j'avais lu qque-part (oui, je sais, c'est précis) qu'il n'était pas judicieux de peindre les faces arrières d'un modèle.

En effet, il semblerait que ces faces, qui, par définition sont "arrières", lorsqu'elles ne sont pas peintes, sont ignorées par les moteurs de rendus (type vray, ...) et réduisent donc le temp de calcul.

Mes questions sont donc les suivantes :

1. Mon histoire te semble t-elle vrai ?
2. Quels sont le/les intérêts de peindre ces faces (dans quels cas) ?

Merci d'avance pour tes lumières

PS: bien que je ne poste que rarement, je lis beaucoup ce forum (et d'autres) et tes post's mon déjà été utiles à plusieurs reprises... j'en profite donc pour te remercier de ton implication dans cette communauté

Salut,

quand j'importe de gros plans autocad j'utilise régulièrement le plugin "Make Faces", qui comme son nom l'indique sert à créer des faces.
Je le trouve très performant (sur des plans parfois bien complexe) même si il oublie de petites surfaces parfois, ca fait quand même gagner un max de temps.

il est dispo gratuitement ici : http://www.smustard.com/script/MakeFaces

Hi,

I’m new on this forum and i’m sorry for my english... (that’s why i ‘ve just read on this forum so far)

I got another way for doing this kind of work, it’s the same base but just a little more complicated to ad some relief to your road.

So here we go...

• Drape your road on the slope like in the first proposition

• Copy the whole thing (slope and drapped road) ten meters above the slope
• In this copy delete everything that isn’t in your road, so that you have the shape of the road in relief

• Take the stamp tool and set the offset then select the shape of the road that is above your slope and stamp it on the slope (the same way you’ve drapped the plan of the road at the first step).

• This should give some results like this...

I don’t know if all I wrote is understoodable but I hope it could help someone...

Note : if you stamp the road plan directly on the slope you’ll have this kind of result because the road will be at the same height all way long.