Are there native SU settings (not renderer-based) for a great 360 panorama? ie size of space or camera location within the scene? Parallel projection or perspective settings? Mind tend to look like viewing through the wrong end of a telescope
TIA

Lovely 360 presentation of the apartment unit and exterior animation. Just wondering how long the processing took in Enscape for the 4 minute video?
Thanks

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I used the new 360 Panorama render for the model in the post above:
https://roundme.com/tour/365605/view/1245216

Also, if you have a Simlab Composer version compatible with your Sketchup version: download the SU14 version, open in Simlab Composer and save as a .skp

@mike amos said:

Thanks for the link, those look good.

Sorry if this sounds rude but, you would have a bigger audience for your models if you post them in an older skp format.

Thanks, Mike Not exactly sure what you mean by an older skp format. They're modeled in SU8 and uploaded as such but what happens after that for available download formats is somewhere in the 'Magic Sauce' SUWarehouse applies? Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

I still love Sketchup-it’s a comfortable, predictable tool. I’ve stayed with SU8 for personal projects and use SU18 PRO at work and there isn’t a whole lot of difference between the 2. In a way a good thing but what the heck has Trimble done with the revenue from sales and upgrades over the past 10(?) years.
It seems like the amazing plugin development community (not in house) have kept SU relevant but all that has allowed the core program to be left as is for the most part-kind of like why buy the cow if you get the milk for free. (Sorry. couldn’t think of a better analogy at the moment)
Jason_Maranto above said that it is the same reaction to every new version release-and I often thought the same thing. But humans are ever hopeful(naive) and adapt to disappointment eventually. Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if even half of peoples’ wishlist suggestions had been incorporated? Or a collaboration with the app developers to make major additions to the native SU tools. Ah well. I don't see that ever happening. Sketchup is not a well-loved dog at Trimble-it only gets thrown a bone every so often to stop it barking.
Cows and dogs.

Just the native render options, alone, in this makes Sketchup look a little sad....

Just don't leave kids or pets in your car at either extreme. Only steaks.

It's -21C with a windchill of -30C here today so needed to model something cosy.
I understand that in Australia, today, you can cook a steak in your car in the shade

3D Warehouse

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp.

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Hi
I'm not a V-Ray user but will assume it works in a similar fashion to other renderers. In SU, create the pattern entity and assign with a unique colour name ie.Wallpaper-Arabesque-Silver. Then, I'm guessing here, assign that colour in V-Ray with a metallic property and adjust the reflectance or desired properties. If this isn't correct, I apologize for creating any confusion and hopefully a V-Ray user will step in.
Best of Luck!

That was very cool. Like being on a roller-coaster.

Getting ambient lighting right is something I struggle with no matter what renderer I use.
For the following stills I made the ceiling a light emitter
Colour: Ivory
B3D Material Settings: Set ceiling object to LIGHT / Temperature=Mercury Vapor Lamp /Light Power=20

These stills show the fine differences that develop the longer the file goes through more iterations but even a quick one is not bad. The longer it processes, the more the defined lighting components display.

I do, Pilou, paid version tho. I haven't tried to render an animation in it yet. B3D is a lot more user friendly.

I've been using Brighter3D for about a month now and agree that there isn't a lot of info available on using the program. I suppose that as it is quite intuitive each user figures out what works best for them and the developer is really patient and helpful. The price is excellent with life time updates included.
When I have some time I plan on building my own library of materials based on the basic ones provided to cut down on re-inventing the wheel with each new setup to render.
I mostly use the program to render animations of interior designs-not a quick process, for sure, but I'm very pleased with the output and the flexibility of editing the rendered scenes pre stitching to an avi output. If there is a section you'd like to redo just edit the SU file as needed and re-render it will overwrite those scenes. Its very stable and have had maybe 2 Bugsplats.
Looking forward to the next version.

If you do get any tips or insights-perhaps post them here to help other users also.
There is a Facebook page also
https://www.facebook.com/Brighter3D/

I use Simlab Composer to convert FBX to SKP files. They're usually pretty large - the sofa could be 10MB maybe.

Render: Brighter3D and tweaked in Photo Director

Thanks for providing SU file, majid, its interesting to see the output possible from various renderers. I hope that more people will use their renderer of choice and post the results.

wow..I never realized there were so many ways to say the same thing.
Back to the pun-one other thought came to mind Unchained Malady not so much to do with shopping though.

Not sure if these links are still viable but I don't think a serial number will be needed.

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Thanks Bryan and hellnbak for feedback
Toned down the cheerfulness by 'switching' off the walls-I had somehow assigned them as emitters And indeed, dark goings on did manifest in the book's Wizard's Den.
It would be very cool if there was a way to add an animated gif (like your avatar) of a roaring fire in the fireplace.

a wild guess...Snapshat