Posts made by peter cann

my tools rollout dosent have that sun direction, and obvious entity info but have to go right down to base level to see where it totally is, can be grouped and listed on other layers at different levels.if you have a complex model each individual line or face could be on a different layer, to re-assign you need to be able to do it a higher level when its grouped as a whole object which you cant. it still exists in the individual pieces on the different layers.

Is there a way to export lense effects channels from vray frame buffer as exr images if main rendering is not done on my machine?. scenario. Image is rendered via vray cloud as multiple exr images, main image loaded at later date into vrfb and lense effects applied. when i save image channel as exr format only a small portion of the image is saved, if I save as any other format( ie, tiff, png, jpeg etc its all there at full frame size)

sun a shadows system is very limited and not easy to use. being able to manually set the sun direction would be an advantage, at present depending on where sketchup thinks the model is globally located it gives you only sun , shadow options for that place. very bad. Some kind of reset model to a position you determine to be the origin would also be good. The layers system could also be greatly improved. Being able to specify what layer an object is on at the top level would be an advantage, as it is now you have to go right down through the hierarchy to the base layer an reassign from there at every stage right to the top. Very bad. I could go on an on, dont get me wrong, sketchup is a great program but there are quite a number of totally not good ideas in the way some things are done.

I worked out a way, cannot select individual materials but need to select the whole groups material then just replace in the respective channels. Not always easy to select the whole group material so can export as a proxy then can easily select group material from proxy.

I replace an already existing material with a two sided vary material made from the original applied as both slots of the two sided. The mapping scale, position etc changes. How to stop this happening?

Any advice, post, or please do email me , petercann@hotmail.com

first image, original, second image, crop in section shows new double sided out of alignment and wrong scale.