@daniel bouchard said:

Kim, feel free to hi-jacking my thread..... because I have another question Tonight, I tried to install new material library in Kerkythea. Each time I try to import material, I always receive the same message: "Could not import archive library". I know the material is a .zip file but even after reading all your guides (in french or in english)I don't see what I'm doing wrong. ?

That's a really good question...

Is it happening with all material libraries you can download from the KT Repository..??
If so, I guess it's because the path where your files are located contains characters outside the English alphabet..?! (I.e. on your Win desktop, if your Win is in a non-English language..)

If it's only happening with one material library, it might be corrupted...

Hope this helps..!?

Cheers
Kim Frederik

@tomsdesk said:

Man, if my first try had come out a tenth this good...

Hi Tom!

With Kerkythea and SU it's really not that complicated, and if you just spend 5-10 minutes reading the Getting Started tutorial, you should be able to achieve something like this very quickly...

On second thought... Maybe you should wait a couple of weeks longer...
ToMasz is just about to release a new version of the SU2KT plug-in, which will make the integration with SU even better...

I will leave it up to you, but it's definitely achievable..!!

Cheers
Kim Frederik

P.S. Sorry for hi-jacking the thread, Daniel...

@daniel bouchard said:

I however have a problem: at least some of the textures I imported in Kerkythea are not only upside down, but also appear on screen as mirror images of themselves, and I don’t know why.

I'm sure this is caused by the fact that the SU2KT plug-in you've been using is outdated...

In an earlier version of the SU2KT plug-in, there was a bug related to this...
In SU please check to see if you have the latest version available of SU2KT...
Click "Plugins" > "Kerkythea Exporter" > "About SU2KT"
The version needs to be 2.21 or above...

If it's not, you can download the latest version here

Cheers
Kim Frederik
KT Team

@gaieus said:

And good news that they will add a whole bunch of 2d photorealistic trees with the proper clipmasks etc.

It's actually 3D trees...

They're not available yet, but will be one of the following days...

We've been allowed to make KT model libraries of the Xfrog Public Plants and likewise the Xfrog Sweet Birch will be available... These will be free of charge, all with compliments from Xfrog...

In addition to the Xfrog models, Frolfer12 have made some various grass model libraries, which also will be available for download, and likewise we have some other 3D plants, flowers and scrub that will be available free of charge...

After import of a model, the user can easily insert a tree, scrub, grass or another model from the KT libraries by using the Insert > Models menu in KT...
And with the instancing brush the user can populate as many copies of these in the scene and then hit the render button...

Please also see this thread...

@roger said:

Does anyone know how to turn off a headlight in KT. I can not see it in my list of lights.

I'll have to take a look at your XML-file to see what you've been doing...
You can send it to frederik[at]kerkythea dot net

Sound strange if it's not in the list...

@roger said:

Gaieus, I do want to down load the materials but my winzip eval expired.

You shouldn't use winzip for any of the material libraries...
If you haven't got it already, please download the Getting Started tutorial and see page 15 to learn how to install the material libraries direct in KT...

Hope this helps..?!

For obvious reasons, I voted for Kerkythea...

Next release, which is due in very near future, you'll get some very powerful features like network-rendering, instancing and much more...
There will be a complete new Material Editor GUI, which will allow the user to create very sophisticated materials...

With regards to Podium, Ross Macintosh wrote in another thread:

Ross Macintosh wrote:
Regarding Kerkythea and Podium: As you may know Podium uses the Kerkythea rendering engine, adding an easier to use interface that works inside of SketchUp as a plug-in.

So with all due respect for the work done with the interface, I would argue that Podium somehow is Kerkythea...
At least a simplified interface using the Kerkythea render engine...

As santiagom mentions, Piranesi is a very powerful tool, but should be categorized as NPR (Non Photo-realistic Render)...

Hi remus,

The easiest way is to use Hypercosm, which even is available in a free version...

@solo said:

I am waffling and this is turning into an ad...sorry

Well... Thanks for the explanation...
I also feel that I have a decent work flow, but I haven't got the same talent you have when it comes to putting a scene together and even though it's my impression that I have a fairly large component and texture database, I'm far behind your talent...

Any way... I'll keep in mind that your talent is available for hire...

Cheers
Kim Frederik

As usual, it's a great pleasure looking at your renders...
Only thing I don't understand... Where do you get the time and inspiration to do all this...

Cheers
Kim Frederik

No wonder why they call you the "Texture King", Pete...!!
It looks really awesome..!

Hi Majid,

I've sent you a PM...

That's right, Alan...
But unfortunately you can't get a real nice render with these "manipulated" models...

Thanks for sharing this, Ross..!!
And Alan for the comment on the "custom-built for kilties"...

Thanks, Mike!
Much appreciated..!!
And we also look forward to the new release... And don't worry about things... We have made plenty of video- and pdf-tutorials which will guide you through things...

Perhaps I should start smoke...?!?
Ooohhhh... I do already... Look at my avatar...
But I still don't see the effect...

It looks really great, Mike...
What program did you use for the renders..??

And - can I ask you to send the 'skippy' to me by mail..?? frederik [at] kerkythea.net..??

@solo said:

I hope you do not mind all the questions, i would ask them in the KT forum but I figured here would be better as many other folk may want to know more.

I don't mind at all...

@solo said:

In the images on first page I see a physical sky, is that a dome or does KT have atmospheres? (domes would slow the render times down considerably)

It's a spherical sky image, and render times are actually better than using a physic sky...
I've attached a very quick test, where I placed a sphere and made the material as a mirror... Note the render time... 11 sec on a slow single core laptop...

I suggest you download the Getting Started tutorial... Although only the KT2007 tutorial is currently available, the principles still remain...
Check pages 20 and 21...

In addition KT has physic sky, which you already know from Podium...

@solo said:

Is displacement mapping available?

Unfortunately not in the release getting out on Wednesday, but it's on the list...
It might be worth mentioning that we aim to have more updates than one per year... So in theory we could get displacement in a couple of month...

@solo said:

If you can add components within the KT gui by way of instancing can one also position that mesh accurately, eg. Ivy is normally impossible in SU, but if one can import into KT can you position it onto the face that it was generated to fit?

Actually you don't add the components by instancing...
You import the components and then you can use the instancing brush to populate your component (or parts of it) as many times as you want to... The instances can be identical to to origin or it can be rotated and/or scaled...

It's really difficult to explain here, without going too much in details...
Once you see one of the video tutorials, I'm sure you get the picture...

@solo said:

Can you blend materials with the editor?

Ooohhh yes...
Check out the A glimpse of things coming... thread...
But again, it will be really difficult to explain here, without going too much in details...

@solo said:

Is SSS qavailable?

It's already available in KT2007...
I suggest you make a search in the KT Forum... Here's one example... Some SSS materials

@solo said:

Mapping textures in KT, does it wrap textures on all axis? or is it the same as SU?

KT wrap on all axis, but you can make it work like in SU...
That's all about UV mapping...

Hope this clarified some of your questions...

Hi Kwistenbiebel,

This is absolutely BEAUTIFULL!!
I haven't been able to make anything similar to this with VfSU, and have almost given up trying to learn it...

How on earth were you able to make the shirt material..??
Looks really good!!

Cheers
Kim Frederik

And I thought it was just me...
I don't get the effect either...

Thanks for sharing these, majid..!!
They look really GREAT..!!