Hi

Is there a way to convert the sketchup colors to textures?
This has to do with export to obj.

If I import an obj with only the sketchup coloring then the colors wont be recognized and my obj has only one color.
When I make tiny jpg with the same color and apply them as texture the obj file will be recognized with these textures.

Thus is there a way to convert them easly?

@dave r said:

The first thing I would do is run ThomThom's CleanUp3 and let it erase coplanar edges.

It reduces the filesize, but the small faces are not coplanar. So it did clean some stuff, but not enough to make it workable.
Is there a plugin that makes 1 face from faces that are next to eachother and with an angle below some value?

I have a model from 3Dscandata. The ceiling from the building is made of thousands of faces. Is there a way to significantly reduce them?
This model is not workable. It's an ifc export from Revit.

Hi

I just converted to vray 3.4, well I'm testing it.

I was messing around with the light in the corner. Adjusting te intensity and size.
When all of a sudden the rendering really got strange.

As you can see in the picture something is really going wrong and I have no clue whatsoever.

Anybody that can help?

Another question. I made a lot of models in v2. When I try to render these I got really big problems with lightning. I can't get the sun or an HDRI to work. Only made lights work.

Is there something simple to do so that they keep working?

Hi

I always liked the furry carpets, because they give that extra realistic touch. I tried a few times with no success.
Today I wanted to give it another go.

I tried different approaches.

The first one was to make a carpet myself.
It sounds really easy. You make a rectangle and you apply a fur material.
The material I made was with a falloff map in the diffuse, using a dark grey and white.
It had a displacement map on it (tried noise and splat), you tweak the size and amplitude.
I unchecked "use globals" and changed the edge length to 2 in the displacement properties.
(I know that reducing the edge length will increase render time)

I pressed render and the building light cache took forever. I had to cancel it after 2 hours. I think it just hung.

The second approach was to download an example. (sketchuptexture.com/2013/07/free-sketchup-3d-model-fur-carpet.html)

When i tried to render it, it had the same result. I lowered the light cache to 2 subdivs just to see.
It went trough, but result was afoul of course.

Is it normal that it takes more then 2 hours to go through the building light cache step?
Are there other methods? ( I got skatter)
Any tips??

I got i7 4930K, 32 gb ram and gtx 1080.

I hope it's just a bug or something stupid I forgot.

I tried this, my computer was stuck on the building light cache step.
I've got a potent pc, so i dont know what's causing it...

You can ignore this post, I just found a solution.
I copy pasted the whole model in a new Sketchup file.
I guess this removes unused materials.

I made an interior scene and copy pasted quit a few things (groups) from previous scene's.
When I render the scene I see only the floor and walls. No object is visible.

Does this have something to do with groups or materials?

I used "bomb all" to explode every group, but then my scene takes forever in 'preparing vray to render' state.

Thx guys
I'll try it out.

Hellow

Can you modify your texture to go around a half circle.
You can see my problem on the picture below. The straight pieces are no problem.