Posts by Paul Russam

I think this is your Enscape window up in the top left:

How it got that small I don't know but can you try resizing it, if that fails then double clicking on it (should make it full screen)

As you seem to be the only one suffering this problem I'm guessing its something on your end and not Enscape.

In the past I've had apps do something similar, what happens is that the position and size of a window is stored in the registry and the values can get corrupted. This results in Windows positioning the window at 0,0 and with a size of 0,0 (or as small as it can get) .... This looks like exactly what's happing to you going by your screen shot.

If you're comfortable exploring the registry you'll probably be able to find and adjust the settings.

As I said I've seen this before with other apps so I'd happily put money on it being a Windows and not an Enscape problem.

I have 2 Macs (iMac and MBP) and my MBP spends more time as a Windows machine than Mac. I couldn't afford 2 machines so went for an i7 MBP so I could both.

I'd love a better graphics card as thats the only thing lacking, everything else (processor, memory etc) beats any PC I've used in the past.

Plus ...... The MacOS version of SketchUp is just horrible compared with the Windows one.

Anything 3D could be in trouble with future versions of MacOS, Apple are starting to deprecate OpenGL in favour of their own Metal engine.

I'm sure Metal will be very good but any existing app such as SketchUp will have to be rewitten (at least partially) and that will not be cheap and may cause some smaller 3D devs to abandon MacOS.

Would SketchUp be able to maintain cross platform compatibility if Windows is OpenGL and MacOS is Metal?

Is the MacOS SketchUp userbase big enough to warrant the rewrite costs?

Would a Metal SketchUp attract more users than the current version?

https://appleinsider.com/artic…al-2-in-macos-1014-mojave

Assuming you are using SketchUp then you could push the face(s) that are grass down about 30mm-50mm thus visually reducing the height of the grass. This should remove most of the overlap but retaining a little to maintain realism.

Ummmm .... I knew that {embarrassed}

<saveface>I was just seeing if you did </saveface>

Could we have (or is there already) the ability to change the time of day by 1hour increments and 10or20 min increments via a keyboard shortcut ?

I had some load/refresh problems in or around the time of the original post but nothing since.

It didn’t feel like anything malicious, maybe a temporary DNS issue.

Yea, I should have replied earlier, it was a stupid noob error on my behalf, that’s for checking though.

Thanks for the image, it really did the trick for me. My curtains are now just what I wanted now

This is a good resource for textures:

https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/textures

You can get lowres (1024 etc) for free but for a very small fee you can get hires with many materials having bump, normal, specular etc maps.

Wild guess but is it below the zero plane?

I don’t use Revit but in SU the ground can cast a shadow and if your model is below it you get something similar.

Here's one of my trees

Umm, I've got the foliage tag in the material name and its subsequently correctly set in Enscape's material dialog.

Do I need to go to models of trees with individual leaves as opposed to my current ones that are several branches per image? ... I hope not

I read in another thread that textures are not reflected, is this what I'm seeing here?

I have a load of trees all around the model placed using Skatter to act as a visual barrier between my model and the infinite nothingness beyond, the leaves on the trees are png's

If this is the case is there a way to even exclude the trees from being reflected?

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, If I've got multiple scenes that have different times of day the Enscape Window will not reflect that time, I have to manually adjust the time but then that now becomes the active time.

How do I batch render multiple scenes with diffrent times of day/shadows?

SketchUp 2017Pro/Enscape 2.2.3.4

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