@unknownuser said:

Keep in mind that with Motiva Colimo, that unless it's changed since the last time I looked at it, it requires more renders to be done, which if you're using an unbiased renderer can be prohibitive.

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-Brodie

This is the main change, you only need to render once if you use Thea Render, the limit of changeable objects is fixed by the amount of memory on your GPU but it has almost no time penalty over a regular render.

Anyway there will be released a working demo at the same time as the comercial version.

Regards, Víctor.

@bob james said:

@solo said:

Just awaiting activation, as soon as I get to grips with it and got something to show, I will share with all and maybe be able to answer questions.

Thank you, Pete, looking forward to it.

How about a name that describes what it does, like "Skymaker"?

Probably SkyUp could be the choosen one.

For the moment SkyUp could be the winner.

PS. one of the users of this forum have recibed the first alpha

@tig said:

VanillaSky
Skies'R'Us

I miss skynet too.

It seems that you don't like this name... anyway it is changeable still.

What about Motiva S4? (Simple Sketchup Sky System)

New names are welcomed!

@gaieus said:

@victor.feliz said:

Are you sure?

Well, out moderators are always open to something new (and no-one is getting younger) so just go ahead!

@victor.feliz said:

About the app I'm open to suggestions.

Well, we know quite little about it... I mean to little to suggest.

Maybe... will it be available for rendering plugins / 3rd party studios?

I really think that I'll enjoy with this forum

About third party it will be easy since Skychup will use a open xml format to store the scenes and anyone could write his own querys to it (also we'll help them if they need).

Toc toc...

Let's explain a little more...

• Skychup won't be fully integrated in Sketchup since the SDK only provides access to read/write skp files so there is no way to access to the viewport. My intention is to have a "two clicks solution" and comunicate Sketchup with a external app (Skychup) that will render the background according to your camera position and day time.

Obviously you can customize your sky and save it in presets to be used in your scenes.

• Yes it currently is DirectX based (as ever) but maybe I could change it in the future to OpenGL to offer Mac support.

• About HDRI this shouldn't be diffucult but I want to lie to anyone, if you need a very high quality sky you should use Vue/Ozone or some other like this, Skychup will be designed to be a very fast solution.

• Free or commercial, unfortunatly we need to pay our bills so it will be comercial but very cheap (nothing to do with the prices of Vue, Ozone...)

• For animation I was thinking about 2 ways one for people that only uses sketchup that will be a big cube around the entire scene (like in video games) so you can change between your scenes and record that camera movement as some architects make. The other way is render a movement like a sequence of files.

• Don't ask Solo too much about this, the beta is not out yet (probably the app itself in a week, and the Sketchup connection could take a bit more).

First of all, thank you for the welcome message.

@gaieus said:

(I removed you from the "newly registered" usergroup now so you don't have to wait for moderation - I guess you are not going to spam us with viagra and similar)

Are you sure?

About the app I'm open to suggestions.