Posts by CMacWilkins

This is the latest example of color lights being washed out and barely noticeable as colored lights. I use color lights all the time, but unless the scene is dark the colored lights will barely show up. In this scene, I've actually got a series of spotlights uplighting the wall, but it's so hard to tell. And if I increase their brightness it just seems white. Is there something to be done to make color lights their true color, like a really rich deep color? TY

Is there some way to make the Asset Library work better and faster? For as long as I've used it, the Enscape Asset Library has been annoyingly slow. Don't get me entirely wrong, I'm grateful that there are so many assets now. But it would be so much more useful if the loading of thumbnail/preview images of each asset were faster. Isn't it basically just an HTML page loading images? Also, the search functionality needs an overhaul, if I search for "woman sitting", it finds nothing.

I've attached a screengrab of how slow it is for me. If the developers could check how quick SU Podium and the new Vray Chaos Cosmos are to load, it may give them some hints.

Thanks.

Will it ever be possible to load multiple video path XML files to batch render videos? I have several camera movements and it's time-consuming to process each one separately... And ideally, each path would save out to a separate video file!

I knew it wouldn't really work in Enscape, but I thought I would try... But it got a bit weirder than I thought it would. Like, why do the corners have all those radiating lights, and what's up with the guy's shadow? Or, the weird reflection at an odd angle?

Enjoy!

Also it would be great if batch render respected layers and hidden objects. As of now it just goes off of whatever is in the first scene settings.

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no crashing issues here but I agree don't fix what aint broke re: the menus. I have menu overload trying to keep them all open as I need to jump around between them. Less menus and more tabs would be my preference.

Hi, dvsone1440. Do you mind telling me what kind of hardware are you working with?

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Looks like something has been mixed up in texture assignment - if you click on the texture and open the Enscape texture editor, does the Albedo have an orange icon?

I've fixed similar in the past by just adjusting the HSB slightly for that texture (from SU's Materials Tray) or just re-loading it.

Thanks, this worked - but I didn't see and orange icon. I opened the proxy model and slightly adjusted its texture map colors and values, saved restarted Sketchup and Enscape, and that did the trick. But this is a major downfall of this product. How can this be resolved to make me want to keep paying for it?

I've reloaded the file many times and no change. It is from a proxy. Frustrated

Has anyone seen this before? Of course this happens when I'm on yet another deadline... The only way I've fixed it is be selecting the face and choosing 'make unique texture'.

Please help!

Right? It seems like each new version crashes more frequently.

I have been experiencing crashes so much lately that it's completely souring my opinion of Enscape. Of course it's been happening during deadline craziness, too...

Especially irritating is the video path editor, it made me crash and slow down yesterday innumerable times. And the editor itself is the weirdest, clunkiest thing to manipulate. If there was a more detailed way to edit each camera position that would really nice. And if there was a way edit the camera target position and not just the camera itself. And sometimes the camera does things that it should do according to what the path looks like, it just stops and turns...!?!

Also, I only got an error report pop-up once out of who knows how many times. Oh, and I made sure to not have Photoshop or Illustrator running while I was working.

Anyway, that's my rant for today.

I have a 2080ti, btw. So I should be fine right? What's wrong with Enscape?

Any news on this? I keep having crashes when Photoshop or Illustrator are running and in GPU mode. There's some conflict with Enscape utilizing the GPU while those apps are running. Would getting another GPU help? I have a single 2080ti.

Quote from Pete Chamberlain

CMacWilkins I took a quick look at this. If you favorite all the Tweens that Keyframe Animation creates, then you can Favorite these Views and Batch Render them that way. Of course, you would have to composite these in post, but that's actually a nice little bit of software to create animation in SU via Enscape.

It is a nice little plugin, but in my experience Enscape takes whatever is on in the first animation frame and each subsequent frame does not change which layers are on or off. This is true for layers, sun position, hidden objects, etc. Can Enscape's Favorited views respect each scene's settings and not just camera position?

I submitted the dedicated feedback report, as you instructed.

Hi Demian,

The rendering quality is always set to 'high', never 'ultra'. I had just started Enscape and Photoshop was already running for awhile (maybe an hour). My Enscape is 2.5.3. I will try to submit a dedicated feedback report.

Thank you

I've been having recurring issues with Photoshop being in GPU mode and Enscape crashing without an error report popping up. Anyone else experiencing this?

I try to remember to keep Photoshop in GPU off mode, but when I forget and have Enscape open the chances are high that Enscape will crash. Also, today I noticed that when I started Enscape, it was very sluggish when I had a very large (+2GB) PSB document open, I was working in Sketchup on a model with approx 662K faces, and 200+ Enscape people. My PC setup is a main 4K monitor + HD monitor on one GPU (2080 ti) with 64GB RAM, Ryzen Threadripper 2950x. Enscape version is most recent 2.5 version.

And my Nvidia driver is up-to-date and is the Game-ready option. (The Creator-Ready one did not work for me.)

Hi,

I have a model with a parallel view and section turned on. Every time I switch to this view it crashes Sketchup and Enscape almost instantly, with no autosave or backup... It made me lose 3 hours of work, which is my fault, too, since I didn't save for that long, but also Sketchup's fault - why it didn't autosave that entire time, I have no idea. Can I send the Enscape team the file to see why this keeps happening? I know parallel views aren't supported but it shouldn't make Enscape crash.

The file is 93MB and the forum doesn't allow that size of file.

Thanks

Is it possible to have an image projection light type? Many other rendering plugins have this and it would be very helpful to show gobo effects and other such things. It wouldn't need to have volumetric effects, but that would be cool, too!

Enscape does not recognize camera tilting in Sketchup. Sometimes it's cool to make the shot twist/tilt. But Enscape can't do it. What do you think?

Is there a way to make the Library window stay up even while placing the asset?