The second one there is perfect! Thank you
Did you already have these? I can't find anything good myself
If you don't already have bumps I'll go about generating one myself
Again thank you

Just an exterior paint texture, but with some bump. I would be doing it just flat colour but I want to add a tiny hint of texture to help with the detail (gonna be in Lumion)

Can anyone help me find a texture suitable for a house?
The house is white. All I can find online are non-seamless, or too over the top with the bumpiness and imperfections.
But using just a SU plain white texture wont do either!
Thanks
Mike

Yep I know your way should work, I can import them fine in 7.
Obviously some problem with my SU8..maybe a re-install is in order..

That wasn't it
Only got to try today cause its my work pc.
I've downloaded free version of SU7, opening them there, then saving the .skp and opening it in my SU8.

Here's a random example (I have a few Gigabytes worth..)
I don't get any helpful error message, it just says that it failed
If I save from cad as a different file it doesn't convert well/correctly

example file dxf

Oh sorry I should have been clearer, when I try to use the native DXF import it fails, I just can't work out why

Hello,
I've got 3 discs full of models from Kermi showers, all in DXF. I can open them in Autocad but not SU8 Pro,
Whats the best procedure?
Mike

Wow, that software's amazing, I don't understand though, is it not available yet? Would be perfect..

Fantastic link
I'll start reading see if any of it is plausible for me

Hmm interesting.
Photomatch may be helpful for positioning the wardrobes in relation to the photo.
The fake reflection technique though is no good, the image in the wardrobes needs to be as real as the photo of the rest of the room, so I'd need to use a second photo I think

One tip is to turn autosave off, or to less frequent, because that makes my large files unworkable because every few minutes I hang like crazy

Hello,
a co-worker of mine who has a sliding wardrobe business wants to incorporate 3D into his service.
To avoid me having to model the full room, I'm thinking of this:

Photo from a certain point in the room,
I render wardrobes in their chosen style, with realistic settings, at the right angle (yes this is already sounding hard to me...)
Using an image editor to insert the wardrobes into the photo.

But what about reflections? I'm thinking going to where the wardrobes would be, taking a photo facing the room at the correct angle, and blending this with the wardrobe layer in the image editor in such a way that replicates reflection?

Basically I've just thought of this, it may be totally flawed, but either way I don't know how exactly to go about it.
Does anyone have any experience with something similar, or just any tips? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Mike

I think I'm gonna try to stick by that advice
Now learning Indigo render, and may purchase the 3D PDF exporter, and offer those as part of my service

Hey Whaat,
Really good advice there, I'll definitely try exit portals and using layers. Unfortunately I can't until work on monday though!
Yep I'll stick at it, dying to achieve the results I see some people do..very cutting edge for archviz..
Any chance you can give me ideas of your personal render times? For interior, exterior etc.? Would be interesting for me
Cheers
Mike

Hmm, I agree with the idea of giving revision inclusive of initial price.
Been in contact with another architecture firm today, they're interested but yet to discuss prices. Let's see how this turns out!

That didn't work either Annoying as I can see the more light in the scene the quicker it clears up the image

japc - sorry I wasnt clear - I meant the Indigo sketchup plugin material window, the one that can render a preview
pugz - Doh! Thanks for that tip. I also read that not enough light can cause grainy renders. You may have just solved a lot of problems haha

Well that's a lot higher than I expected. Of course there's different context for different works, residential, commercial, directly to client or freelancing to architects etc.

Hello
I've just got the latest indigo render trial
I followed a tutorial which worked (although didn't look great because it was obviously very basic). This involved using displacement on a carpet and applying a few materials and a light.

Since then I can't get it to work. I add lights in sketchup using a preset material and when I bring it into indigo there's no artificial light, only natural. I also now notice in the material editor in sketchup, when you hit preview render (to see the material applied to a cube or something) it doesn't generate any light there either..

Also, my render times are terrible, even for Indigo IMO. I brought in a scene from sketchup with some materials applied (no bump or displacement though), and even though I knew the lights wouldn't work I thought I'd leave it on.
16 hours later and it's still very noisy, and that's with GPU acceleration on!?

Hope someone can help because I'm dying to use an ultra photorealistic software for my renders (atm I'm using podium). Some of the examples on the Indigo site are crazy

Oh my specs are i7 2600k, 16gb ram, 3GB gtx 580. Do you really need a CAD workstation / render farm to use Indigo?

Cheers
Mike