Great, Thanks!

A little late to the show, but noticed this last month when researching VR and saw that it works with Revit and SketchUp...so that's a plus for my firm.

Then I ran across a thread in their forum discussing the Oculus Go and noticed Pete on their...maybe it was his question. Anyway, actually learned a lot about VR headsets from that thread and how people are using them with clients.

My quick question is about portability and VR...has anyone played with that yet?
Revit Live requires the model to be uploaded to the cloud then downloaded to run...which I think is ridiculous when you have the computing power to do it...but what about portability. You can't always rely on robust internet access if you take the setup to a client.

Can you run Enscape from a muscle powered laptop for a walkthrough in VR? Without internet access?

@ntxdave said:

@marvins_dad said:

Thanks man!

You need to organize and lead SketchUp Users Group in Dallas

LOL - I'm just doing my best to keep my head above water with SketchUp and Revit.
Pete's really the star in the area!

Thanks though.

Thanks man!

Here's Grapevine Public Safety Building...We opened it yesterday!

And the built project...

Richardson Heights in Richardson, TX - modeled in SketchUp, then Revit...but rendered in Lumion (just shortly after they added interior lights as a feature.
Now that pool would be full of Lumion people, for sure.

@ntxdave said:

Some really great looking work. Another north Texan that makes me feel very inadequate....

I have also been looking at the VR stuff with SimLab Composer 8.0.7. Some interesting stuff. There animation tools seem pretty powerful as well.

Solo, they mix rendering with animation that has some capabilities that match both Animator and MS Physics.

Wish I could learn from some of you guys but I just do not have the artistic talents that most of you possess.

Thanks Dave!

I'll have to check out those since we are really just starting to investigate VR, how we can use it and how far to go with it. We've only used Lumion's tools since we already own it.

Looking to see if I had uploaded one of my Lumion fly throughs I came across this video...this is for a project that I don't think I have posted about. NRH (North Richland Hills) - City Hall, Public Safety and Courts building. A quite large project!

Apparently the metal panel supplier created this video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwrrvmKDQrs

@solo said:

Great stuff mate, planning on adding animations in the future?

I'll have to check and see if any of my Lumion movies are worthy of showing off.

We have started playing with the Lumion VR feature recently though - so maybe at some point that will be something to share.

BTW - love the avatar Solo.

Waxahachie Police, Waxahachie, TX
Design in SketchUp, renderings in Thea Render, currently under construction...

Lakeway Police
Modeled in SketchUp, Rendered in Thea, in pricing.

SMU Natatorium - Dallas, TX
Modeled-SketchUP, Rendered in Thea Render, Under Construction

Midland Municipal Court - Midland, Texas
Designed in SketchUp, Rendered in Thea Render, then again in Lumion for a fly around video for the client.

The issue popped up again recently.
Found it to be a Skatter issue after all.
I could pull it up on a machine without Skatter plug in installed with ease...would hang forever on my machines that had Skatter installed.
Went in and purged/deleted the Skatter reference on the non-Skatter machine....saved then opened in my Skatter machine (no problem) - then redefined the Skatter perimeters...and works like a charm.

Unsure what the hang up is and once redefined the problem hasn't occurred again.

Yep - me too!
I have been working on a large project for a few months, came back to working on a few site mock ups and noticed the diminished quality of the "add more imagery" when trying to set up my 9 square grid of the city block I was working on.
Ended up grabbing Google Earth Pro and saving the highest resolution and then attempted to scale it to match the blurry DG image.
For some reason I couldn't draw directly on the top of the GEP image, I had to draw from the bottom - very odd.
But I really noticed there was something amis when I started extruding buildings and wanted to "Add Photo Texture..." that was where I was informed of the 5 year contract with Google that had expired and after I made do with just faceless blocks I came here to see what the F was up!

I am looking for a viable alternative for both features I have lost and will be following this and any other thread that pop up on the subject.

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Check my answer : http://getskatter.com/support/topic/deleting-a-skatter-setup/#post-782

Thanks! Was able to rule one plug-in out of the problem that I am having.

And...it crashed again...damnit!

Will see if I can get an old version to work while trying to bring that one back up.
I had purged out all the unused Skatter setups and purged and fixed the file...still bugsplatted.

Unsure what all would be useful, here is the short report...

Computer: DELL Precision WorkStation T5500
CPU: Intel Xeon E5520 (Nehalem-EP, D0)
2266 MHz (17.00x133.3) @ 2449 MHz (19.00x128.9)
CPU: Intel Xeon E5520 (Nehalem-EP, D0)
2266 MHz (17.00x133.3) @ 2490 MHz (19.00x131.1)
Motherboard: DELL 0D883F
Chipset: Intel 5520 (Tylersburg 36D) + ICH10R
Memory: 12286 MBytes @ 515 MHz, 7.0-7-7-20
Graphics: EVGA e-GeForce GTX Titan
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, 6144 MB GDDR5 SDRAM
Drive: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB, 244.2 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s
Drive: WDC WD800HLFS-75G6U1, 78.1 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s @ 1.5Gb/s
Drive: WDC WD15EADS-22P8B0, 1465.1 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s @ 1.5Gb/s
Drive: PLDS DVD+/-RW DH-16AAS, DVD+R DL
Drive: WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2, 1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s @ 3Gb/s <-> USB
Sound: Intel ICH10 - High Definition Audio Controller [A0]
Sound: NVIDIA GK110 - High Definition Audio Controller
Network: Broadcom BCM5761 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (x64) Build 7601

I finally got it open again and purged then "Fix Problems" and got this...