Layers Panel is quite old, I don't think it works with V-Ray 3, sorry.

Yes it has been said that V-Ray Next will support MaterialIDs in GPU mode.

In V-Ray, it's called "opacity".
I don't have a computer with me, but I think it is located in the "options" section of the material.

Does this help, Fredo ?

https://www.sketchup.com/sites/www.sketchup.com/files/sketchup2018refcardmac.pdf

That's stunning work! Congrats

Did you consider having a simpler toggle button like SubD's, instead of the undo/repair?

This is not really what you're after, but you can write timestamps in the description to have the video skip to that time.

For instance, writing "2:36 Symmetrical Corners" will automatically make "2:36" clickable, which will skip the video to 2:36.

How do you imagine this integrated in Sketchup?

Use this : http://ruby.sketchup.com/Sketchup/Entities.html#add_image-instance_method

Well, this would look identical as the full geometry:

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

or even a fully shaded preview using Christina's FaceShader.

EDIT: Without textures, actually.

@anton_s said:

The transform_by_vectors takes quite a reasonable amount of performance out of this (and I do wrap every frame in its own operation with second parameter set to true). On a draping cylinder sample (with no textures), with transform_by_vectors enabled, the performance is 17 FPS; with transform_by_vectors disabled, the performance is 32 FPS.

That's what I was suspecting.
Have you considered displaying an openGL preview during the simulation, instead of the full geometry? Like a wireframe of the cloth, or even a fully shaded preview using Christina's FaceShader.

Considering it would instantly double the performance, and more orders of magnitude once you implement multi threading, you should seriously consider it.

Or am I missing something? Is there a particular reason why you need to transform the whole SU geometry at each frame?

Hey Anton, I was wondering today: what's the performance bottleneck? Is it the physics simulation itself, or moving the whole geometry at each frame?

@rv1974 said:

1. The buying process should be reworked.

I agree!

\o/

Why is it that odd? It's just a matter of convention after all.
Plus, I can see where it comes from : cm is pretty much the precision scale in architecture. You cannot build a building with a millimeter precision. The best you can do is around one cm.

In France, I always saw centimeters in architecture offices.

You can find an unscrambler pretty easily on Google...

The official Sketchup forum is more active than ever.
Also Facebook groups are taking people from forums.

Holy shit.
I hope he'll fully recover. If not psychologically, at least physically.

@pixero said:

If the core code is the same, adding support for extensions to the web version would be possible, right?
Or does it already have support for extensions built in but not yet exposed?

No, the Ruby API is not part of the core.

@masterpaul said:

Sketchup free will take more resources away from the offline PRO. It is a completely different beast, most likely runs on a different code (html5).

No, the core code is the same, only the UI differs. Any improvement made to the core will benefit both platforms.