Im pretty sure you must at least install 2015 with windows OS.
Here is a link to sketchup forum posting for getting 2015 Make.
hello everyone, does anyone have a link to download sketchup make ? i kept searching but only found sketchup 2015 Pro.
SketchUp Community (forums.sketchup.com)
There is no 32bit Visualizer version
Hi Fred,
Just so its clear, because I didnt think it was possible. You managed(with John's help) to get Visualizer installed on a Mac with only Sketchup2016 installed.
Yes you are right john, unfortunately I read youemailme's post too quickly and thought they were installing on a Mac not windows PC platform.
youemailme your "quoted" section is referring to installing on a Mac.
Please read pilou's post that explains how to do it on Windows
here
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80%26amp;t=57758%26amp;start=60#p581313
Hi youemailme,
Take a look at this post on the sketchup forums
user john_drivenupthewall has provided a way to do it from the sketchup ruby console.
oops sorry about that I meant receive shadow ... which lets the sun and sky light effect the object regardless of any other geometry in the scene
the sun/sky time of day and orientation relative to the sun still effects the brightness which makes it not quite a pure emmisive surface but still kind of neat
Hi pilou,
Im pretty sure the original request was related to layering with an alpha channel but until the person chimes back it remains a mystery.
Your diagram is very neat. What software do you use to make such illustrations ... sketchup?
Also the cast shadow toggle is an interesting hidden gem in Visualizer which can be used to emit light from geometry in a limited fashion. It can take quite a while to render a noise free image. Here is a test image.
Hi Pilou,
I didn't understand what you meant by "false background". In fact your "psyche" geometry would produce a nice limbo background with a complex shadow casting of the foreground object.
alexandercheyns,
Just to help clarify what you are asking about, can you post a link to the Visualizer tutorial you referred to. I assume it has something to do with the alpha channel and png files.
Hi pilou,
Good thought but AFIK this feature doesn't exist in Visualizer.
Hi alexandercheyns,
Visualizer does not support the "styles" features of Sketchup. It always put a procedural sky in the background. I assume you are saving the image in png format. Pardon me if this is obvious but the alpha channel of that image file allows you to layer the foreground on to another background. You do need some compositing software like Photoshop or Gimp to specify the new background. Perhaps you could share an example rendered image.
Hi pbacot,
I noticed your pool water image had lots of fireflies ... the small bright white dots ... which means you must be using the Visualizer enhanced mode.
If you didn't already know there is a despeckle option which will remove them. They will however, return eventually if you let it render for many hours.
See attached image for how to turn on despeckle.
Hi minimalex,
Have you managed to get Visualizer working with Sketchup2016. If not I have some questions.
Is Visualizer working with previous versions of Sketchup?
Did you recently upgrade the OS X version? What OS X version are you running?
I'm a bit confused by your description of the copy procedure. What went wrong initially and how are you confirming that required ruby file and folder is now correctly copied?
Hi beacharch
This approach assumes you have already installed Sketchup2015 or Sketchup2014 and Visualizer.
After installing Sketchup2016
dont start Sketchup2016 yet and go to folder
/Library/Application Support/
If there isn't one already create this folder hierarchy(exactly matching upper and lowercase)
/Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2016/Sketchup/Plugins
from /Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2015/Sketchup/Plugins
copy these two items(one is a folder the other is a ruby file)
ImaginationVisualizer
ImaginationVisualizer.rb
paste them into
/Library/Application Support/Sketchup 2016/Sketchup/Plugins
Now launch Sketchup2016 you should see Visualizer under the Extensions pull-down.
If Visualizer doesn't show up in the Extensions pull-down
click on
Sketchup->Preferences->Extensions
you should see Visualizer with an unchecked toggle box ... check that toggle on
close the preferences window
and Bob's your uncle Visualizer running in Sketchup2016
(you may have to relaunch Sketchup)
Hi pbacot,
You can use a png image with an alpha channel that is less than 1.0 or 255
Here is an example.
Great! ... I was wondering if making it work for 2016 was as easy as that.
thanks
I do like the added shape detail provided by the ambient occlusion shading. Can you get reflections?
Hi Lus1kka,
Your comments are very appreciated.
You are the first user that has reported problems with the sceneexporter plugin. I will try to replicate your case. Visualizer uses the windows registry to store latest values for file names. What may be happening is that until the user sets the name at least once the registry contains invalid values. I didn't think of testing for this case.
If you have ideas for new features, please post them.
Hi Lus1kka,
Sorry for the delayed reply. Im not sure what is going on.
Would you be willing to attach your sketchup scene?
thanks
Take a look at a couple of the last entries in this recent sketchucation post showing renders with the new denoising and enhanced materials for 1.3
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80%26amp;t=57758%26amp;start=60#p566928
another example ... this one took about 35 minutes to render on my desktop
a couple of the fireflies weren't removed by the despeckle mode but it still looks pretty nice
