Posts made by Rich O Brien

Definite autumn vibes. Did you run a sharpen effect in post-pro?

@Gus-R

Everyone could use a good Stratocaster.

True, I'd rather that than to be played as a fiddle

@L-i-am You can also try Smoove that is under the native Sandbox menu

@nlipovac Its that time of year for major update, late q4 or early q1, so showcasing to paying attendees would be a good strat

@fredo6 Thanks

The New Param Dialog refuses to resize to display footer buttons on SketchUp 2023 and Windows 11 occasionally.

Some of the features, in particular the ability to load custom scripts is so powerful. This extension reminds me of Auto Hotkey.

A really nice feature would be to add Extension menu entries to the Custom Task dialog to run explicit menu commands on a file set. Something like batch running the Create 2D Face Me command in Fredo Portrait to parse through a folder of SKP files to generate billboards.

Really powerful tool nonetheless and thanks for sharing.

What renderer is that.

Lovely detail....crazy detail to be honest.

@L-i-am Only free Painter like tool I know of is ArmorPaint

https://armorpaint.org/

But getting something of the calibre of Painter for free is unlikely. If you purchase Substance Painter through Steam you circumvent the Adobe subscription model.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2718190/Substance_3D_Painter_2024/

@Rachel23 Licenses need to be activated per https://downloads.sketchucation.com/licensing/SCFLicense-Instructions_to_Users.pdf

@Box I remember that vertical stacked piece that had the human form. There was an accident where one of the glass panels shattered.

Maybe it wasn't a human form?

Either way I remember thinking that these works would so hard to render. All those light bounces and refractions.

Cool stuff though. Stained glass is still my favourite.

@HornOxx

https://community.sketchucation.com/post/1515505

Took me ages to find it. But I love this type of use of SketchUp. PNG billboards are such powerful assets.

@HornOxx Haha! Love it

I did something similar a few years ago with a galaxy.

Animator is such a cool extension!

@BABAB

You need Sketchucation Tools https://sketchucation.com/plugin/696-sketchucationtools

You need Libfredo https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LibFredo6

If you run the Window > Libfredo Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support menu in SketchUp I can take a look.

@GLEZKO said in Flowify:

@Rich-O-Brien Gi, thanks for the feedback. So am I able to turn it into a png texture and bend that onto the riser or would i just intersect the face of the pattern onto the tread. UI am essentially trying to get this pattern on the tread to make it light up when I render the whole staircase. How would I reduce the geometry?

Yes, you could make it a png and just texture the riser. You can drive emission at render time using an emissive map.

To reduce geometry I would remove the Z height to leave just flat planar shapes. Then use Vertex Tools 2 Merge by Distance tool to nuke vertices.

At nearly 400k entities I think you are asking a bit too much of SketchUp.

That step relief would be much more performant as a texture. Or you need to drastically reduce the amount of geometry by a factor of 100.

If the end goal is rendering then a subdividing face and displacement would be the way to go.

Or pull the geometry that is the pattern and work to that as it at least under 60k entities.

@Prorab What's the question?

You can retrieve license files from https://sketchucation.com/webshop/my-licences.php

You can activate FredoSpline using Tools > Fredo Collection > FredoSpline > License...

@Prorab I would click Yes/OK to open the folder where the signature file is located.

Close SketchUp

Delete the signature file

Open SketchUp

Activate License

If the error repeats please check your PC name...

If your device name has special characters please change the device name to only use alphanumeric characters

Turn off Scene Transitions

@tudorstanila You could change to a less strict network.

The error itself is telling you that there is something client side stopping the activation. It could one of many possible scenarios - firewall, anti-virus, network policy

FreeCAD 1.0 released with the Arch and BIM Workbenches now merged. Still no SKP import support but DAE is supported.

https://www.freecad.org/downloads.php

https://youtu.be/x5oXSGhK7EY

I've used it in the past for FEM analysis and found it pretty good.

Can't complain at the price either....free