Lumen allows real-time global illumination, reflections, and shadows.
It simulates how light behaves in the real world.
Same as the regular path tracing rendering we are all familiar but with modern GPUs its now possible in real-time. Its just resource intensive.
@jsinmichael said in [Plugin] Lightbeans:
Does the use of these textures dramatically increase the file size?
Any assets added the a skp file will increase file size.
As SketchUp currently only uses a single image as a material the overhead is not as extreme as bundling a full PBR map set.
@Kayak83 said in [Plugin] Lightbeans:
Seems a little bugged to me.
Try contacting them: https://lightbeans.com/en/pages/resources/support
It has Enscape and Vray integration so there's an easy path to using their materials. Not sure if Twin Motion is supported.
But, to answer your question....yes you can manually add additional maps yourself in your app of choice.
In that instance downloading directly from their site at the needed resolution is your friend.
I love their Tile materials, Really well done.
That error is completely weird because a 3080 has 10GB of VRAM
Your machine is the most delicate device I've encountered. I'd never shop wherever you got that again. Unless you like to feel punished?
It has enough grunt to render relatively fast. Not blazing fast but definitely not hours and hours for straight forward interior scenes.
I don't think the issue is you. I think the device might be suffering from little gremlins or there some software trying mange things when you should just be able work away.
Try running Cinebench to get a value you can compare with other devices
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@murat75kz Install Sketchucation Tools: https://sketchucation.com/plugin/696-sketchucationtools
Use that to install Hatchfaces or 100s of others
I’ll put you in touch with them. Don’t know if they’ve API to tap into?
Yes, Its the GI component of the light aspect in UE. Resources heavy and benefits for RTX cards.
You get all that beautiful bounce light and realtime AO but you can see even in Triple A gaming that the hardware to run this is pretty hefty.
The new 50 series nVidia cards, in particular the 5090 at ~$2000, are really suited and geared towards this tech. Apps like Twin Motion will benefit from that but the consumer needs to invest every year in GPU cards to leverage these benefits.
When you take the yearly cost of SketchUp, Twinmotion and GPU/CPU it means you need good paying project work to even consider staying competitive. Tech is moving so fast these days but its is also bringing with it rising costs.
I still prefer old path tracing engines rather than these realtime solutions. I feel they lack that physical correctness in materials. There's something I just like when it comes to authoring my own physically correct material and seeing the results.
I've the same fondness with SketchUp as it has simpler approach to 3D that works.
The guys over at Lightbeans had added Lightbeans to our ExtensionStore and site.
3D SketchUp Community for Design and Engineering Professionals.
(sketchucation.com)
I've been using there site for a few months and the textures are high quality. If you are doing ArchViz and need access to high quality render ready building products this is a must have!
Plus it's free! They also drop new materials every week and its all accessible directly in SketchUp.
Check it out if you're interested....
Wasn't there some drama around it using your submissions to train its LMM for AI purposes?
I believe you need to opt your uploads in NoAI to prevent that from happening. In case that type of thing is something you have concerns around.
You don't open .scflicense files
Download the file to your device
Open SketchUp
Go to Tools > Fredo Collection > RoundCorner > License...
Click Activate and navigate to the location of the downloaded license file and click Open
What I find interesting with Unreal is that so many Triple A gaming studios are adopting rather than developing in-house engines.
That means Unreal is only going to get better over time as top talent finding roadblocks making 3D environments will benefit the engine.
That naturally passes to Twin Motion which will get a more user friendly feature/s for visualisation. Acquiring TM was such as good move by Epic. Especially when you add Quixel, Megascans and SketchFab.
If Epic ever decides to provide a modelling platform to users it will really shake up the space.
This video shows there's a ton of setup that has happened to help automate. Can you imagine what something like this could be if it cooks and refines for another 12 months!
@L-i-am said in retopology?:
@L-i-am Thanks Rich, might it be easier to import the model into blender?
There's a workflow I use where I exported quad meshes from Blender to OBJ format.
Thomthom's Quadface Tools has an OBJ import that converts the OBJ quads to SU quads.
Its probably a topic I should put together an article on so users can benefit from that type of pipeline. Having it my head it not benefitting anyone.
I know @panixia also has a particular approach to go from SU to Substance Painter and support UDIMs which is something the community would benefit from.
Quad face Tools has a conversion tool. But it’s hit or miss. You’ll need to manually remake quads.
If your going down the topology path it’s best to first understand to philosophy of quads in SketchUp. Once you grasp that then edge flow and methods are much easier approach.
There’s no magic bullet it’s brute forcing stuff until you start winning. Once the wins start to stack you begin understanding at a faster rate. Plus what you are learning will transfer to other apps.
Full Blender is what I learned. I think it was Blender 2.6 I started with which had a horrible UI.
If you get stuck just holla
You could make a template or if you Have Fredo Portait it can store camera positions
Depends on your comfort levels. If you are happy in your SketchUp box then pull up a chair and get comfy.
If you want to explore other avenues then poke around.
I like my SketchUp and Blender combo. I can do some things 10x faster in Blender and vice versa.
It's worth adding that there's a very high frustration wall you encounter at first with Blender. Especially if you apply the SketchUp philosophy in terms of how 3D should work.
Blender follows convention whilst SketchUp is about ease of use. In SketchUp you draw whilst in Blender you model.
You cannot compare the apps because one is a conceptual design tool whilst the other is 3D pipeline.
I like both.
I'll be a SketchUp user until I hang my hat. But having a good foundation in Blender means I can tackle more projects that SketchUp just couldn't manage.