Sharing an Enscape ready Sketchup model

I tried but every path except albedo which is nativly saved in sKetchup is lost.. So if You want to share it You will need every map for Bump and Roughness as well as ies profiles. With my colleague from work I did a trick cos I copied my texture folders to his PC so all the paths are the same.. but he rarely renders so we do not have to updates it almost at all.. If You want to share it with somebody for modelling best would be to copy every needed file in some local directory and zip it together. Though either You or the other person will have to redirect the paths..

If You want the other person to view it only You could use executable..
I requested for ENScape some long time ago at least for the function that Renderer would look in local directory (folder in which Your sKetchup file is) if it could not find file in specified path. This way You could save all needed textures and IESes in one folder and all would be reconnected automatically.. But I am guessing this feature got little attention, though it is one extra line of code.. Ye I just checked.. not implemented.

What do You want to do when materials have the same name? Copy in the model and replace? Without being overwritten by not set up material? Change name.. If the native sKetchup settings of both materials are the same sKetchup will not import copied material, it will assign the one it already has. So I don't give specific names at the beginning or use a snippet to change names of materials before copying ENS materials..

mod = Sketchup.active_model # Open model
materials = mod.materials
materials.each do |mater|
  mater.name = ('_temp_' + mater.display_name)
end

Just past into Ruby Consol.. Then I use Material Replacer plugin. But Mostly I just copy materials at the beginning as I need them.. I guess You however talk about case when somebody without ENScape models and then passes to You for render?

Funny, because I just came to the forums to post a wish-list item that would enable a scene to be packed, similar to V-Ray's tool that will pack up all textures and files and create a zipped archive. I think we also need some kind of asset tracker so we can see maps that are missing when working between computers. This area is very lacking. In the modern world of work at home and moving between networks, this is a real problem.

It's bizarre how it doesn't have such a simple resource!

Quote from ryanfernie

It's bizarre nobody from @Escape has ever answered this. I feel they don't answer much on these forums. I wonder if Vray has better support? It's been 17 days and not even a get lost or a sorry. Is there a better support forum somewhere else that I don't know about?

Pardon me for replying back just now but in this regard at the moment at least what Tomas has already shared above is usually what we reccomend when moving a project from one machine to another for example.

I also understand that this isn't ideal and I can only add that I'll bring this up during our next meeting with product management once again. Feel free to also forward this as a general inquiry using our portal in case you haven't yet, which reaches PM too.

Should I be able to share any additional news regarding this anytime soon, I'll certainly do so. For now I can only let PM know once more of the importance of this and ensure that our users forward their wishes directly to them as well.