Oh, what a fun/amazing plugin ever, works and so much creative outcomes with quick changes, thanks so much to 3dalbertsoft!!!!

Fredo6,
Thanks so much for upgrading already useful toy!
Have a nice day!

That is exactly what I am mentioning. I got the idea how it is done in Thea now after watching your vid tut instruction. This rotation application can be used for showing a big building layout with smaller rotation scene angle to get a better quality, isn't it?

Thanks so much for spending time to help as you are busy with your own too!

I've tried to embed my flash movie now but it is a bit tricky task!

Peter makes people smiling today, great sharing !!!

@chris fullmer said:

A couple of days is unfortunately not uncommon. Rendering does take a bit of time, and if you multiple frames to render, then it really gets crazy.

Yes really crazy as the file getting bigger and longer required a massive effort and patience. Thumbs up for all amazing 3d design render movies done and posted on youtube!

@solo said:

hgdn,

What is the product you want to render?

Are you going to use HDRi for lighting?

24 renders might be too few for a smooth result, I'd say at the very least 60 is needed.

Thearender is what I am interested in now but I don't know enough it yet, specially animation!

Yes, using HDRi for scene render

To render 1 scene takes at least 1hr or more depending on what size....as you said to be good smooth quality outcome required at least 60 renders...take up a couple days to finish, breathless omg!

@jim said:

There's this bit of code that creates SketchUp Scenes. Full discussion.

Thanks Jim for sending a link of full discussions of this topic dated back years ago I will check to see that relates to mine.
Disoriented newbie!

@didier bur said:

Hi,

Have you tried VR exporter ? http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=467

No, I am using it now and does this plugin provide a way to render images prior to put them in object2vr? As I saw all images created just for using nonrendered images movie??
As using cubic pano plugin, 6 scenes created automatically and rendered all of them and put in pano2vr for rendered movie. I find this way is so simple and get fast result because I am not familiar with animation yet!
Any vid tut around of this plugin to understand easier?
Thanks Didier

@solo said:

Strangely enough I am busy doing two of these exact projects at the moment. I am using 120 renders, this is to be used on an ipad for product interaction.

The thing is you need to rotate the product, not the camera that way the reflections interact and give a better sense of you controlling the rotation at the end.

I used Thea render, and created the animation path 12 seconds, 30 degrees each second, 15 frames per second.

What rendering app are you intending to use?

Thanks Peter for giving instructions,

Twilight is my app, I have never done animation before because of lengthy rendering time required that scares me the most, some people said take a few days to render and produce only a few seconds movie!

I find pano2vr app is a quick way to show internal result, just one spherical rendered image and good enough to create the movie.

Now I am thinking is it possible to use object2vr app to show external building with 12 or 24...rendered scene images to create movie?
But based on what you said it doesn't work in term of controlling reflection interact each other, right?

I just got a Thea app but I have not given it a try yet, do you know where I can get animation/texture displacement...tutorials as they got only some tutorials on their web site but not all and I saw a lot of your amazing rendered works of using this app, wow! It seems not much vid tutorials about this, found only one or two on youtube?

Could anyone tell me somewhere that has a plugin that can create circular scenes around a loop and its camera aiming at center point of circle? Normally, I create one scene at a time and each different let say 30 degree with circle has 12 sides, the more scenes created the smoother the outcome but take sometime to create this tedious boring task....
As I just try to use object2vr application (http://gardengnomesoftware.com/object2vr.php) to create an object movie with rendered scene images created by SU+render software and put all sequent rendered images into object2vr to have rendered movie.
I already tried pano2vr it is so great application and now I am trying to use object2vr as well.
Any idea thanks!

hi Mike,

Thanks for letting us know, a very interesting/useful link, by downloading stuffs (ltg fixtures/plants/textures...) directly from website my computer has been restored at least 500MB!

@tspco said:

Well I did that still no copy, now I have this

@unknownuser said:

May be you have some problems different from mine?
Check with this connection link to see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=31819#p280545

Thanks so much for giving a wonderful plugin, it is so great for terrain work and done so fast! Hope you or any one can figure out of how to have uv texture works on spherical or odd curvy shapes as well!

@tspco said:

My Mover2 broke, when I updated to the SU8 maintenance update the copy portion quit working, I can still use it to move but not to copy, any ideas?

hi,

Just redownloading the updated SCF POWERBAR from Cadfather website and rerunning it and it should be fine. One more thing as I remember if mirror tool doesn't work and then it should be gotten from TIG plugin. Hope you get it works!

TIG,
Wow Amazing! It works really well on SU8 and I do need to duck my head into your explainations to know more about it as I am not a good reader at all! Thanks and have a nice day!

Could anyone tell me where to find an updated Componentpunch.rb for SU8 as it works really well on SU7 but SU8? Thanks

oh la la...TIG and DAVE!
I found the other way around to get it worked by openning SU run as administrator and ...fine!
As I tried to tick all boxes as TIG and changed security box as Dave said, some of them changed but not creator owner wouldn't let me change or save??? I am not deep enough to understand the system!
And I found out when unzipping file to its'location program I got errors...and had to save it somewhere and copy and paste in plugins folder.
Anyway many tries and errors and finally it works so great. Such an amazing plugin TIG!
Thanks a lot to you guys and Nice Holidays!

TIG,
What do you mean of changing access rights to the Plugins and sub folder? Could you give me more details of how to change that?
I don't have any problem of installations any plugins before. I got so confused![/quote]
OK when you move plugins to the Plugins folder do you get prompted to allow this ?
If so you have limited permissions.
Perhaps your system is stopping the temporary files being written into the ../Plugins/SKMtools folder.
To check the permissions highlight the SKMtools folder icon, right-click and get then 'Properties' from the context-menu...[attachment=0:81qclo16]<!-- ia0 -->Capture.PNG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:81qclo16] then open the security tab and edit the settings - ensure all listed 'users' have ticks in all 'Allow' boxes... You might have to be an administrator to do this ? The illustration is Vista BUT XP is essentially the same...[/quote]

Something is out of my head as I've tried the ways you showed me but still not get it. Too bad I have not had a chance to try it out!
Sorry for spending your precious time!

@tig said:

hgdn

That from.ini is a 'left-over' file from some testing that I've accidentally left in the folder when zipping it - IF the tool worked OK it'd delete it on completion anyway!

So for some reason your Ruby is making the from/to.ini files ???
Try making them with appropriate entries as I directed and see if the jar makes the two new [Edges] files...
I suspect that you need to change the access rights to the Plugins folder and/or SKMtools sub-folder so you have full read/write/execute|change access...

TIG,
What do you mean of changing access rights to the Plugins and sub folder? Could you give me more details of how to change that?
I don't have any problem of installations any plugins before. I got so confused!

@tig said:

hgdn

Something is stopping the EdgeDetector.jar file working properly...
Do you have full access rights to the SKMtools folder with in Plugins?
The tool needs to write from.ini and to.ini files into that folder.
Check if they are there - they are auto-deleted if the tool works OK but if it fails they might be there?
The from.ini contains the full path to the ../TrimmedImages/xxx.png file ['xxx' being the image file name], the to.ini is similar but without a file-extension ../TrimmedImages/xxx
If these don't exist try making them [use Notepad.exe to edit them] - note there should be no 'return' at the end of the one line of text in each of them.
If you make these ini files... and the xxx.png file is in the TrimmedImages folder, then double-clicking on the EdgeDetector.jar icon inside the SKMtools folder should read the two ini files and make the xxx[Edges].png and xxx[Edges].dat files.
If it does I can't see what the [i:2tth50ys]Ruby[/i:2tth50ys] calling the '[i:2tth50ys]jar[/i:2tth50ys]' is failing
If it doesn't work do you get any errors ??

TIG,

There is no to.ini file in folder SKMtools, and from.ini file contains the path C:\Temp\x\AB.skm
Strange may be my computer system won't let it saves directly!! I'll spend more time closely and follow your instructions and hope find the problem soon!
Thanks for explainations and Happy New Year!