I'm setting up numerous materials inside SkethUp. Noticing that some albedo maps inside SketchUp show MUCH higher detail than what is rending in Enscape. Both materials shown here at high quality 4k, from Poliigon. Currently just showing albedo maps and nothing else applied.
Material albedo maps rendering at low quality - blurry
- Tim
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Tim , thanks for your post!
In this case, please be aware that the albedo texture (and materials in general) in this case in Enscape gets downscaled if it's assigned to a smaller area/piece of geometry. If you enlarge the ground in your scene, it should help with allowing Enscape to render the texture in 4k like you see in SketchUp too.
Let me know if you experience any problems during or after this process still.
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Tim , thanks for your post!
In this case, please be aware that the albedo texture (and materials in general) in this case in Enscape gets downscaled if it's assigned to a smaller area/piece of geometry. If you enlarge the ground in your scene, it should help with allowing Enscape to render the texture in 4k like you see in SketchUp too.
Let me know if you experience any problems during or after this process still.
This is a large flat plane (landscape). I tried with a smaller 2k texture and it looks just the same in terms of being rendered worse than what SU shows.
Why are the maps being downsampeld? And wasn't this something we used to be able to toggle on/off in the settings?
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect Enscape to allow the user to choose how how of a quality map to use. I specifically bought a new high end GPU to allow for higher resolution maps.
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Tim , the maps are being downsampled due to performance/optimization reasons. Still, this behavior does not usually present any problems - In this case, I was not able to reproduce this behavior to such an extent as seen in the images you've shared, though, so would you mind sending me any of the (sample) project files you are using here?
Alternatively, a screenshot of the overall size of the plane would also be great - And just to make very sure, if you aren't using 3.3.1 yet, kindly acquire that latest version here and try to see if that makes any difference whatsoever please.
As my final question, did you apply the materials after stretching the plane to your desire, or did you apply them before and then resized the plane instead? It should not make a difference, but just so I have this information as well. And in this regard please also try to size the plane before applying the materials should you not have done that before.
Finally an example from my machine (using 4k textures):
Plus an image to better see the size of the plane:
Since I cannot reproduce this problem yet as mentioned, your cooperation would be appreciated. -
Since I cannot reproduce this problem yet as mentioned, your cooperation would be appreciated.
I have a support ticket open. Posting on the forum here to see if any other users can chime in, since that can be helpful for tips/tricks.
And just to make very sure, if you aren't using 3.3.1 yet
Yes, using the latest build.
did you apply the materials after stretching the plane to your desire, or did you apply them before and then resized the plane instead?
I start a new material by sizing it inside SketchUp per the size given by the Poliigon info (see attached). Then I add the other maps inside Enscape. As you stated earlier, there is a lingering bug where the albedo map location keeps changing to my %appdata% folder instead of the actual location on my hard drive. I checked that file in the location and it's the same high quality image, just copied over to that folder by Enscape- for whatever reason. I've even moved all my materials and relinked them from a NAS to my local NVMe SSD and no change in behavior or quality. TLDR: not sure if thats causing an issue (seem like not).
I can see what is happening now:
I applied the 2k material to begin with just to see the quality/size benefits and if 4k was worth moving up to. When I swapped it out to the 4k version, SketchUp resized the image for whatever reason down from 20'x20' to 2'x2'. Resizing back to the correct size did the trick and I re-saved the material within SketchUp, and it seems to be sticking now. I don't know why it chose to resize, but it has implications when swapping around materials within Enscape when designing, as shown.
