Posts by Arthur C

I'm having this issue as well. Yesterday the file was fine now its crashing every time I run Enscape on one particular model.

When I am prompted to send runtime error information Enscape freezes and doesnt process the command to send error data.

I just got an error as well that crashed the program.

It also changes the sun position after rendering... ignoring the saved scene sun position.
This happens every time i go to render the scene. Even when resetting the sun position.

I created a scene with only sun lighting, the preview shows how I wanted the lighting below.

The rendered image comes out way darker and nothing like the preview.

Check that your surfaces are closed and that no minute gaps are present. Up the rendering lever to high or better.

Thanks for the explanation Adam really useful information!

I changed the map to gray tones. Does displacement not work on corners or transitions?

I'm trying to achieve this

but I'm getting this...

Lot's of Japanese Topiary trees! and maybe some Japanese box hedges!

Topiary references,

I agree the "standard" displacement map is black, white, and grey. However the pebble materials Enscape provides uses what looks like a normal map.

So I decided to copy that logic since its their software.

Anyways, I guess to improve it I should make it black, white, and grey.

I thought so too, however Enscape native materials use what looks like a Normal map for the displacement setting.

Take for example the pebbles material... Pebbles 01,Brown. Notice the Heightmap type is set to Displacement.

Here is a view of the material in the interior which reads well #1.

However exterior lighting is not working the same way. Also it seems too much lighting throws off the displacement See #2.

1. 2.

I'm creating a custom stone texture.

How can I improve my displacement map for the stone material shown on the wall below

I attached the map I am using for displacement as well.

Hi Demian Gutberlet perhaps so if you turn on Enscape match camera.

Generally, I set my camera location with SketchUp but once I turn on Enscape I edit the scene and save a new one within Enscape.

From there I work solely within Enscape to edit the camera position and capture the scene, exposure, artificial lighting, atmosphere, FOV, saturation, aspect ration, etc...

After all isn't that the point of live render

Quote from Anneliesbleyaert

Can sun position - adjusted with shift+u/i or ctrl+u/i be saved in a scene by enscape?

When making an other camera view, with other sun position, in the first view the shadow settings are also changed. Very frustrating!

I agree it's frustrating!

Live render is great but wasting time to re-calibrate settings seems pointless when I should be able to save all settings and lighting to the scene.

Likewise when doing different camera ratios I have to write down what scene has what Ratio and Field of View

and then input that number every time I have to re-render. Otherwise I would be SOL trying to recreate the scene.

I generally use Encscape to play around with the time of day. Once the daylighting and shadows are what I want them to be there is no way for saving the time of day to a scene.

Am I supposed to create a preset for every scene that uses a different time of day and month? This seems like overkill, is there a way to save time of day/month etc within Enscape?

Thanks Paul, it looks like it worked out fine in your example.

I am able to load a custom asset with over 20k polygons. Image below.

Has anyone utilized several assets with over 20k polygons in one architectural scene?

I'm hoping to get furniture (over 20 high poly models) into one SketchUp file, including architecture.

I am seeing some rendering differences between 2.7 and 3.1 particularly day lighting as well as shadows.

1) Day lighting is significantly impacted from the "Sky" clouds settings "Density" and "Variety". Much more than in previous versions.

2) Shadows and reflections of vegetation/geometry are reading much thinner than before.

Has anyone else dealt with these issues? I Personally prefer the look on 2.7 (Left Image)

2.7 Left and 3.1 on the Right

I use a desktop with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12-Core processor. Hasn't failed me yet in 2 years!