Posts made by jdcamc

It is working now. For some reason it would not give me the .suclock extension when I first tried I, just the error message stating the file was invalid. Now it does give me the .suclock extension. Thanks for you help!

Here's a video of what it is doing. No matter which route I take, I get the same results - that the project file is invalid. I'm not sure what that means or why the sketchup file is considered invalid. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the sketchup file being 2018 version.

SUClock.mov

I'm having trouble getting the clock to work is sketchy 2018 pro. Here's a screenshot of the message I'm getting. I am assuming it's not available for 2018? Thanks! I have the latest version 1.9c.

Yep, does't work with Mac OS X 10.12.6 & SU2017 but does work with SU2016.

The plugin works fine in the Windows version of SketchUp 2017 but it doesn't work for the MAC version of SketchUp 2017. I have both and the drop-down menus in both the trees and grass dialog boxes are empty in the MAC version. I can import a tree that I made with the Windows version into the MAC Version of SketchUp but when I select the tree, then right click to bring up the context menu, the context menu is empty, too. I am, however, able to turn on and off the proxy of the tree that I've imported into the MAC version of SketchUp.

I am looking for the same thing. Even though I have the scene delay set to 0, SketchUp still pauses between the scenes. Kinda like a car coming to a stop sign - slow down, stop, speed up. Are there any plugins that will override this pausing?

Okee Dokee, I need some advise. I want to make a rendered version of a walk-through of a house I designed. I’ve already created the scenes in SketchUp. I’ve exported the animation I created in SketchUp and have 3982 .jpgs that creates the walk-thru. I’ve even made a movie of the walk-thru but it’s basically just screenshots of my scenes. Now I want to do a rendered version of that walk-thru. How do I go about doing that? If I were to render each of the 3982 scenes it would take 10 years, nine months, 9 days, 17 hours, 32 minutes and 17.7 seconds to accomplish. I don’t wanna wait that long. With the rendering program I have (shaderlight - and I love it!) and even though I love the look of the renders it creates, it still takes it anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours to make one render. So there has to be a way to create a beautimus rendered version of the walk-thru of my perrty little house without diminishing all of the electrical power of my home state to do so. I do want to still be somewhat alive when it is finished. How do they do it on hidden potential? or property brothers? That’s what I want to accomplish. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Grazie!!

BTW, I’ve read a few forums on rendering flythroughs and I’ve read elsewhere about using 3ds Max for animation. I have seen the program before and for me it is quite intimidating. I’ve been using AutoCAD for 11+ years now but 3ds Max is a whole other animal. By no means am I an expert in any of these programs. In 3ds Max all I’ve been able to do is import a drawing I did in SketchUp that I had exported as a .dwg file and then imported that .dwg file into 3ds Max (is there another way of doing it?). It took a while to import the file and once it did 3ds just crawled – kinda like a snail through mud. And the drawing didn’t have any of the textures and the whole drawing was dark. It’s also looked like the exterior wall was partially missing. That’s all I can do in 3ds Max – everything else is foreign to me. Thanks again!

yippee!! grass and everything - now I guess I'l have to start mowing....

Well, I thought I did. Let me try it again just to make sure.

Thanks.

Help! I'm doing something wrong. Here is my setup:

and my render:

As you can see, the grass is just little green dots and the rendering shows nothing at all. What am I doing wrong?