I think I ended up bodging it. LOL - I finally got a response on the Enscape forum that helped me create what I needed within Enscape. I had Sun Shadows raytracing turned off. Didn't know that was a switch I could turn on and off. It kept me from having to learn Vray for another project at least!
I stacked a window glazing system with a transmittance of 51% with a plane that had 20% transmittance to see if there was a change. With sun raytracing on, it worked!

A look at the clerestory...

We also opened Celina Police - from the project I posted images of before the Fort Worth Project...

I had ray-tracing turned off for the sun - didn't know that was a thing. - So, was able to solve the problem in Enscape.

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich! LOL - they had a free "Taco Bar" at the ribbon cutting, does that count?

We finally opened the building at the end of March!

I'm in a bit of a tangle.
I have been working with Enscape for the entirety of this project and we have come to a place where the client wants to occupy the building past the time they originally stated they would.
Because of this the sun angles are letting the light through towards the end of the day and causing a glare on the backwall of the meeting space.
I have been charged with testing 3M film that has the ability to cut the amount of "Visible Light Transmitted". Looking to see if 20% of VLT will take away the glare.
In the post below on the Enscape forum I have been asking how to do that in the Enscape platform, but I have hit a wall with that product and wonder if V-Ray is capable of taking on the task.

Realistic Glass tint material - need help - Enscape

I'm trying to create glass material that mimics the real world. We have a project where we are looking at applying a 3M product to the glass to reduce the amount of light is transmitted through the glass. These have a Visible Light Transmitted…

Enscape (forum.enscape3d.com)

Has anyone ever utilized the architectural glass settings to do something like this or does anyone know if it is capable?

I like the idea that I might be able to move from one program to the other and might be able to save time instead of starting fresh with a completely different platform...but how realistic would this workflow be?

Thanks for any responses!
Antoine

Fort Worth Council Chambers Fort Worth, TX
Sketchup and Enscape...currently waiting for permitting.

@ntxdave said:

Really great! I wish I had the talent/skill to do stuff like this.

How long does it take to draw models like this and what tools/plugins do you use?

Again:

It's a constant tweaking for 2-3 months for most of these. We typically meet with the client every 2 weeks during Schematics and update the exterior/interior model as we go. I use the royal we, but I'm doing the SketchUp and presentations.
I've been taking on more and more responsibilities over the design direction with each project.

I've been using minimal plugins, but Windowizer gets reinstalled with every upgrade. I rely on that heavily for quick designwork.
Was an early adopter of Lumion starting at Lumion v1..we still carry a copy of that. I utilize Thea Render when I want really good looking stills and know we aren't going to do a fly around. I finally caved in and started to use Enscape on these last few projects because another Architect we were working with wanted to match interior/exterior feel.

Celina Police (under construction)

@rich o brien said:

8 yrs with 2 yrs deducted for good behaviour?

LOL - Thanks Rich! I was wondering if I wasn't welcome when it wouldn't let me log in from a thread...went to the main page and it was happy with me.

Fayetteville Police - Fayetteville, AR

8 years and no updates, what's up with that guy?

Plano Police McDermott Precinct

Thanks for sharing!

I tried pasting them into the Ruby console and got this...

@tig said:

Of course just Clearing the Guides would have fixed it...
I fixed another guys issue with a corrupted SKP... he'd managed to get a line that had an end was so far away from the origin nothing showed at all.
By using Sketchup.active_model.bounds.max and Sketchup.active_model.bounds.min it became clear that his model was actually several zillion times bigger that the visible universe
This is fixable by 'filtering' Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.grep(Sketchup::Edge).find_all{|e| ### } - tests for extreme bounds/lengths and then if there are only one or two erase! them to get back to sanity...

Having the same issue.
Cleared guides, moved model to center on origin and drilled into all my groups that looked larger than they should to clear out all the hidden mess there.

How do you run those scripts to find out?

I've been looking at those, leaning more towards the Lenovo version at the moment. Thanks!