Posts by Pete Chamberlain

Lewis Williams - in regards to a situation where no artificial lights are being used, there is unfortunately no current solution between the two (far left and far right) examples that you provide. A curtain would cast a shadow in real life, although it may be somewhat more subtle in its intensity as is being seen in Enscape.

Lewis Williams - you can only add Specular Maps when using VRay or Brazil for Rhino, and Rhino does not have a slot for this in its native texture mapping solution, so the only solution is to control this via the Gloss and Reflection, as well as the Refl. polish settings in Rhinos native material editor.

Lewis Williams - Emissive and artificial lights currently do not work with alpha surfaces, and the 'leaf' keyword is the only solution to get as close as possible to the result you are after at the present time. As you have already found out, the light will pass through, but shadows are not cast and the transparent material is not affected by artificial lights.

generative1988 - just adding this so you get the notification of my reply to your question.

Andrii Mogylnyi - 8k is the current limit, although our developers are currently working on increasing this limitation, so it should be possible in the near future.

Hi.

Double Post?

Hopefully, I have gone some way in answering this question here.

Comments welcome.

Hi,

There is an interesting thread over on the Rhino forums that has discussed a similar topic to this, so it may be relevant and of interest to you also.

Here is the thread,

Having also talked with one of our developers about this, they advise that:

You have to import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

rs.Command("EnscapeStartCommand")

rs.Command("EnscapeTakeScreenshotCommand");

and then you can use this to open Enscape (in current view) and then take a screenshot.

If you want Enscape to close afterwards you'll need win32gui for python (which is a module) and you can then lookup the window and close it by hand.

Does this help you out here?

Let me know.

Zenoardelean - that's a great workaround to this problem and will help until we include this feature into Enscape. Thanks for contributing the idea to the discussion.

Zenoardelean , Tikos , - I've added your votes to the story in our development agenda.

Thanks for the input.

JACK.Z - thanks for the input, we will test this difference between Rhino 5 and 6.

NickC , jj44 , xxl - this feature request has already been added to our development agenda, so I've up-voted this on all of your behalf.

Obviously, Simon has already commented on why it's not implemented and offered/requested user case examples to help to consider it's implementation, but now it's officially in for review.

Thanks for the input everyone.

Arqui3D

I have added your request to our development agenda and the developers will review it for inclusion.

Thanks for the input,