hi everyone!, it's been a while since my last visit and i'm glad i'm back. Here's my try of an evening scene with cold/warm light mix. Unfortunately i'm not able to set light propely. There's still a lot of noise from the external lights. The attached image has less than 400 spp but it's not my firs...

hi,
IMHO many of sketchup (3dwarehouse) cars are ok - especially when You need them as additional object (f.e. for archviz). They just need little bit of material tuning. This mini cooper weighs about 8MB.

hi cotty,
I'm using skindigo 2.6.1 and I don't see this option
I belive "ID pass" it's a feature I can't use without 3.x version
thanks anyway

Hi,
thanks for all ideas.
I did some test with phong material with clip mask value set to 0.5. In my case it should work but i'll check Yours solution too.

CTZn wrote:I would render a material ID pass and use it to create a selection to be blurred in a 2d application.

How can i do that with skindigo?

yes.
skp exporter reminds it when glass acceleration is on...

hi, i need some help with semi-transparent panels in my render. Below is about 1k spp sample. As You can see, the render is still loooong way to be clear. Material is "frosted glass" from material database, panels are 6 mm thick. I did some test with glossy-transparent and specular materials too. Ar...

Polinalkrimizei wrote:What an awesome project. Cool style, and I like the exterior render. and pretty much everything else.

+1
Well done (design + renders).
How much time did it take to render all these?

hi, IMHO You should take a look at materials borders - f.e. where stone tiles meet wood planks. In real life there's always something there (cork, steel or just a small gap). Also a good trick is to lift all standing furnitures about 05,-1mm up - it simulates (real) unperfection of floor/furniture s...

what is Your white material settings? White shouldn't be set lighter then 204/204/204 (rgb) especially in interiors rendering. Lowering values to 204/204/204 will icrease performance.

hi,
there may be a problem with loading textures when You use non-latin characters. Make sure, that there's no non-latin characters in texture filename AND path. I hope it could help.

maybe triangulation would help? You can do it using some plugin or by exporting to .obj format and imprting back to SU.

very nice,
there's only one thing - the metallic-like reflections on the walls seem strange. Or it's just me?

btw. I did some renders of this building, but never finished... Maybe Your work could be good inspiration to do it...

cheers

oh,
that's right. I missquoted (is there such a word ?)
sorry Jeff

there's now a pref for 'use maximum texture size' which i believe will use the largest size that your graphics card can handle.. Yeap, that's the answer. All resolution limit thing is about the way SU displays textures. I've tested. Regrdless preferences settings (maximum resolution on/off). Skindi...

thx for Your reply. ou can link to the hi-rez file in the skindigo material editor.. I do know that. I'd like to know if there's such a need. In other words if sketchup stores original (full) data for skindigo to use? It's possible - skp file grows significantly when using large textures. I'm just n...