Posts made by kimi kimi

I don't think anyone is going to go through that effort to make a tutorial for you. But you should turn on swarm option in your render settings, install V-Ray Swarm on your other computer(s), run it, make sure all computers are connected to same network, hit render. That's the basics, but there could be many different issues, try and see. Write if you run into a specific problem.

SketchUp works fine for me, but LayOut does not. I can't save a file if it has hybrid style drawing in it, and I can't generate a PDF. I have to turn everything into raster, then I can save and export PDF files. It worked fine in previous versions. I don't know if anyone else is having this problem?

Same thing here. I installed 2020.1 version few days ago, and hybrid won't export PDF, nor save the file. So I have to turn every drawing to raster, then I can export and save LayOut file. Pretty sure it's a bug, it worked fine before.

When I try to save, it says error 10, whatever that means.

I'm not into doing these workarounds, I have too many files to do this.

Hi,
I'm trying to set up my toolbars like I did in LO 2018, but when I try to reopen LayOut, I get immediate bug splat. Is anyone else experiencing this? I need to delete some .plo and xml documents in AppData/...LayOut in order to come back to default and use the program again. But default setup slows me down, I need to be able to customize.

Also, is there some quick way to migrate my workspace from 2018 to 2019, so I don't have to position every icon manually?

Yeah, it works good for some time, then some phantom problems appear without evident reason. I don't know, try writing to Chaos Group forum, I'm not rendering very often, so I can't tell if I'm messing up the settings, or Swarm just isn't that good. But I feel I shouldn't be a professional IT technician to set up something like that. I think the Swarm is the same for 3ds Max also, so maybe look for some answers from those users.

I said SketchUp DEVELOPMENT TEAM is pure garbage. So, I insulted a few people who don't know what they're doing, are not interested in improving their product, or care only about the money and not about the users or product itself. I don't know how the company is organized, who runs the show, where is the problem, but either someone is not paid enough to do their job properly, or there is not enough people, or, what I suspect is most likely, there is some fat executive that sees sales numbers still going and thinks no need to spend money there. SketchUp itself is not awful, but not because of SKETCHUP DEVELOPMENT TEAM, but because of outsiders who create plugins and give that stuff away for free, I'm very very thankful to them and to the community outside Trimble. I'm also grateful to companies and individuals who sell their plugins, I bought dozens of great ones. That mentality, never complain, that doesn't work with me. If there is a problem, I need to say it. And people have been saying it, I'm on this forum long enough, but it's to deaf ears obviously.

I can make a bunch of things myself, but that doesn't mean I should. And I really don't understand this forum, everyone is so defensive of SketchUp and Trimble, when the development team is pure garbage. I repeat, they are PURE GARBAGE! Ban me if you want, but that's the truth. Chaos Group makes so much progress every year with V-Ray, Lumion makes huge steps with every release, many volunteers create nice plugins, and Trimble can't even make a freaking batting pattern, that's like architecture graphics essentials. If these guys here didn't roll out plugins, there would be no SketchUp. Nothing against you Dave, but I do have a lot against the general sentiment that this is all OK.

Looks too artificial too me, but I can't tell exactly what's the reason. Maybe try to move that black away from absolute black, I think that's messing up the light. Also, some depth of field effect might be nice, since it's a small object. If you're really into experimenting, try some bump and dirt maps for the bottle and ground.

As long as I'm not using feet and inches everything is fine.

Go to refraction layer of the glass and change color from black to white. Or just replace all the glass with standard V-Ray glass.

For single core, I meant that SketchUp, when modeling, uses one core only, so only those 2.2 GHz. So, for doing actual human work it's better to use some computer that has for example 4.0 GHz single core speed. But for rendering, this is great, V-Ray uses all threads, so 32x2.2. I think your setup is good, use another computer to build the model, use this new one to speed up rendering.

I decided to test this new feature for SketchUp 2018 where you can supposedly attach price info, size info, web links etc. to components, but there is a problem. If I try it on components built in previous versions, it just forgets it right away, doesn't even apply the info. I tried a few old models, click on window, expand advanced attributes in entity info, add data, deselect it, select it again, nothing, empty! Did anyone else notice this? There is a workaround when I nest another component inside, type data right away, then explode all instances of old component and that works. But I have hundreds of windows and doors, it's a problem when things get complex.

I don't get it, stop is gray, but red square (?) is still red? There is only one stop sign next to teapot. When you click it, it turns grey and render stops. Attach a screenshot if you can.

Yeah, I would say it's a good purchase. For Vray it's great, although single core speed is obviously not very impressive, so working in SketchUp will probably be a bit painful. If you plan to use it only for rendering, then go for it.

I'm waiting for a few developers to join together and make an alternative to SketchUp. I'll pay filthy money for it. Just do it. Make yourself rich. You know what it needs to be.

Reminds me of math problems in school. Modeling is easy, but you need to have a strategy for this. Which I don't have at the moment

Cylindrical part on top is easy, just make a cylinder, turn on hidden geometry, make one vertical stripe with these (), then rotate around center of that cylinder (press CTRL to copy while rotating). But for the bottom part which is spherical, that's tough, I don't have an answer for that now.
Maybe download some geodesic dome (that's built from triangles) and try to apply the pattern inside those triangles or on edges... Do that first and then do the top cylindrical part.

Don't give it thickness right away, use Joint Push Pull to extrude it later.

Try turning on material override, use white as override color, exclude glass from being affected by override, turn off lights, turn on ambient occlusion and play with it until the shading is good.

Nice work!

If you don't use a diffuse map, then SketchUp shows it like that sometimes. You need a reflection map to get that effect. Can you show us what you made and how you made it? Then we'll try to help.

Works! Thanks a lot Pixero!