Posts by Tracyheywood

thanks again for your helpful replies!

hi ozboz

I've tried the enscape custom asset & I cant get passed this? i've tried the larger model & tried doing it with just a chair id downloaded from 3d warehouse but shows the same

Thats sooooo helpfull! Thanks so much for all that! I will have to google some of the terms but I get the idea. I only started in Feb this year so learning as I go.

Payment in products I'm sure is allowed... sounds like a plan.

I just need to get crafty 1st with my modelling skills

Demian Gutberlet

Thanks also for your reply!

I'll look into how to use this proxy tool & do a save as & have a play! Anything to make my computer run faster in sketchup would be amazing. I presume this is what ozboz was also talking about?

Ill read your email now!

Thanks again for your time

Tracy

ozboz

Thanks for this! Soooo Very helpful! & im glad i dont really need a new GPU just yet as enscape isnt much of a problem. More sketchup slowness I feel.

Are you aware of any good links to youtube or whatever to help me with converting models from warehouse to enscape proxies? I seem to remember at my last work (before I used sketchup) they modelled the building & then almost 'xrefed' modelled the interior elsewhere & imported them into the building.

I will google this also but again if you know of any good links to help me figure this out then great.

Thanks again for your time in replying! Also more helpful than the sketchup forum who all just told me I need a new computer. Not financially possible right now

Tracy x

Hi Demain

Yes!

James replied with some helpful comments but not heard back since i replied to him, wasn't sure if he passed onto you as i replied with answers to his questions.

I've tried making some changes to his suggestions but doesn't seem to be working. The lighting problem has only started since i updated the download from Nividia for my GPU but fingers crossed seems ok since turning my computer on & off. The slowness is ongoing..... Will a new graphics card help with the slowness in sketchup do you know? I don't want to spend $$$$$$ & it not be any different as i only bought this graphics card this year (clearly not quite right be seems ok with rendering/pans & walkthroughs etc....I just cant raytrace)

Money is tight as only set up my business this year & spent so much already & had 2 months with now work but the slowness is driving me insane

Thanks for that! filled it in...sorry i filled it in before reading your whole message so Ive sent one with the problem detailed & then another with just your name as wasn't sure how to link the thread./

So basically sketchup is working very slow & thinking after every command & freezing & even more so with enscape window open. It was crashing after trying to add an enscape light. This did seem to happen after i read a thread about updating my GPU with the latest download. So i turned my computer off & on after this & it seem to stop the lights crashing it but now its not rendering them in panoramas. Like the lights are all turned off but the 2d renders are fine.

as my model has been running so slow ive done a save as & cleared all the info to work room by room. My model is small & now crashes every time I put an enscape light into it...HELP!!!

Hey

I was wondering if someone can look at the spec of my computer & tell me if its adequate. I haven't got a clue other than its running VERY slow on not that large models & even slower using Enscape. I've seen the spec required for enscape but it means nothing to me. Not sure if its my computer or my models are the problem. I don't think my models are complicated but I'm new to this so not sure.

Speak soon

Tracy

Yeah when I changed the time of day it only ever looked like the sun was setting & not complete darkness. The only way i could get darkness was changing the UTC. never needed to before. not sure why its happened. I found this out on a previous thread about the shadows tab

At least I figured it out. Dont really know what the UTC is & Just wondered if there was a preferred setting.

Morning

I had an error message when opening enscape. saying...

'Error starting enscape: offset must be within plus or minus 14 hours. Parameter name:offset'

I soon realised it was to do with the UTC in shadows in sketchup, as remembered changing it as I couldn't get the views to get dark. What should this be on? I am in the UK if that helps.

Hope to hear from you soon

tracy

thanks!! sorted it....I hadnt put the image as the texture in transparancy in enscape! whoop!! thanks again!

Ill have another go...is your fence 3d? not just a flat face?

probably because it was a flat face but when I extrude to give it a thickness it loses its transparency?

it seems to work on sketchup but making black blobs on enscape window?

amazing!! thanks

when assigning a material for instance a grill to a rectangle. is there a way of making a colour transparent so you only see the metal part of the grill?

thanks for that paul

Well... you learn something new everyday! Thanks for that! didnt even know about the shadows timer!

Thanks for your help!

All sorted

Thanks for getting back to me

Im using sketchup 2021 & the latest enscape