Hi Samuel, are you using parallax mapping technique for this height displacement?

@samuel_t said:

I don't understand. You want to rotate HDRi?

Yes. Rotating the HDRi 360° will change the lighting directions since HDRis gather light intensity from the brightness of pixel colours. Thus normal maps will behave accordingly.

Something like this:

Or simply to change background view:

@samuel_t said:

• Plugin comes with a tiny PBR materials library. Donate to make it grow!

Take a look at these websites for free (CC0) textures: Pixel-Furnace, CC0Textures, freepbr. You can provide link to these sites maybe?

I think you should indicate that we need to open a collection to use PBR materials you provided. People may not find PBR folder you generated easily.

In addition to 'saving, opening and creating' a model, when we "apply all changes" in the PBR material editor, Chromium pops-up and updates the view as well.

HDR images working fine Can we rotate them somehow? That would be cool

Hi Orgelf, marvelous art you're creating, please don't stop

Is there a particular reason you model in SketchUp and not in Blender (especially such complex objects)?

Also do you have a Sketchfab profile? Seeing and navigating around your models in 3D would be amazing.

Check Instant Meshes. It's a great tool to reduce polygon sizes and retopology with lots of features.

It only imports/exports .obj and .ply files but it's free!

Also check this tutorial for how to setup textures afterwards in combination with Blender software.

Check this fresh plugin: Physically-Based Rendering

Unfortunately I've always experienced this freeze issues with high-poly models in SketchUp and i didn't see any improvements to be honest. I can't even import some models (trees for example) without crashing SU to create their proxies for renders yet it's almost instant importing the same objects to Blender.

I don't know if this is a limitation of the Ruby programming itself or lazyness of SketchUp Team.

Can you post some screenshots?

Make sure those components doesn't have backfaces visible to camera. (Check in monochrome mode)

I think it's because GPU rendering is fairly new technology comparing to CPU rendering, so i believe it's just a matter of time that will support every feature like in CPU.

Can you share your texture and opacity map (transparency)?
Here is a working example:

Note that it might not work with GPU acceleration or interactive mode.
Check this for more information about Emissive Material.