Hello,

We have 6 licenses for Vray for sketchup 3.6.03 and it works great how we can use the swarm feature utilizing the power of the 6 processors together.

If I would buy 1 VRAY next license, will I be able to use the swarm feature to utilize the 6 other that are having the 3.6 licenses.

Hope, it will as i havent considered upgrading all our licenses to Vray Next

regards,

edd

yeah it will be handy...

Thanks there Chippwalters... I agree SU needs major rewriting if it wants to stay in the game..But If I want to shift to a more "serious modeling" tool and dive to that steep learning curve... Why not 3ds max or Maya? Has Blender overtaken the two as the industry standard.. I mean if I am to continually pursue a career in ArchViz?

We all hoped that SU will one day transition to a "can do" to a "do it all" software. While other pro CG artists can smile at what SU have achieved so far (credits to independent plugin writers).Being realistic about it, SU has achieved what other had about decades ago. Expecting them to jump over will be a move backwards. Many of my colleage still thinks Sketchup is a joke...and wont fit their standards.

And so we were excited about SubD and UV unwrap unveiled in the recent years which has been there 15 or 20 years ago in many 3d platforms..

SU will always be here for the ease of use. But I agree that major overhaul is needed. Having said all this.. I still love SU and would like to hear the future plans..

did all those suggestions.. Strange that if I try to run cleanup , it gives me approximate hundreds of hours to process... the way to go was import as proxy in vray... I have a full floor to fill with chairs and stuffs.. I long for a day we can import clean unbroken models seamlessly... without taxing the memory..

I was just wondering what has sketchup done to improve handling of high poly models. I just needed 3 chairs imported from 3ds format which run ultra smoothly on other platforms.. Im using SKP 17 The 3 chairs alone is 50mb . This set of chairs freezes everything else.

Re-modelling it will take me a day or so to be as close. I guess re-topo is something developers out there can think of to keep a lot of SU users happy.

as it is is beautiful and this kind of talent is incresingly becoming rare these days...

I have a strange behavior of displacement map in vray 3.6.
I cant make it to work. The material preview shows a good displacement but it doesnt appear in the render.Tried and tried but cant make it work.

Even I tried models done in vray 2.0 which worked but wont work in 3.6.

Anyone having the same issue? below is the displacement map

@hornoxx said:

... thanks Cuttingedge!

just an other video link which seems to be very close to what you (we) are looking for

Thanks there Hornoxx.. Really useful.. I havent tried inkscape, Now for sure I will..

I also found a quick dedicated app for this purpose which is very easy to use.. its called halftoner from

http://jasondorie.com/page_cnc.html. This is mainly used for CNC pattern production which generates high res image or vector (dxf)

I was able to generate this image of my city's skyline..

@hornoxx said:

... ...
This topic is so important for me as well, so please keep posting how you come along

Sure i will...

I found one good site that makes halftone vectors of images.. I just dont see the triangular perforation pattern option.. and they come with watermark in the output...but works well...

Halftone Patterns

Powerful Vector Halftone Image Generator

(halftonepro.com)

Once i got the image halftoned, then vectorization should be an easy job

BTW, I failed to mention the above is the famous DGJ+NAU’s bank building for Raiffeisen in Zurich...not my project...