Posts by renderwiz

While I love the idea of a super easy, quick and intuitive material system, there is a finite time to code such a thing. I would be more than happy with the ability to hack together something based on the tools that sketchup does allow.

Since enscape is pulling material and texture data directly from the sketchup scene, we could embed multiple sub-materials containing the maps we are looking to use, such as brick, brick-bump, brick-normal, brick-displacement, brick-reflection, brick-glossiness, each as a separate material. If Enscape finds one of the sub-materials provided, it would use these to add these additional parameters to the master material it builds. Would probably be best to choose a very unique identifier for the naming structure.

A sub-material's name can also indicate the strength of whatever map or parameter we are supplying. For example, the name"brick-bump-25"would mean 25% strength bump. If we want to supply only a value, we create a material with a name such as "brick-reflection-25", or "brick-glossiness-33"

The other cool thing about breaking it down like this is it could theoretically give Sketchup/Enscape the ability to do separate scaling for each texture . Not sure if Enscape can handled this info, but this method would provide it. For example, "brick-glossiness-33" material could have a texture with a size of 10' x 10', whereas the main "brick" material texture might be sized at 5'x5'. There are many times when the ability to add a different sized submap can help to disguise tiling.

Thank you very much for the heads up on the ground texture files. That is helping already.

I do have a couple more items to suggest if an 'expert mode' is developed.

-Ambient Occlusion Radius

-Ambient Occlusion Strength

Chris

Exactly The settings below are where I feel the interface is limiting. Being about to type in a number (or path to file in the last item) would be much more flexible.

General > Quality

Capture > Duration

Capture > Compression Quality

Capture > Panorama Resolution

Capture > FPS

Capture > Noise

Image > Sharpness (Bring back please, some of us are post processing images and video and would like flexibility with sharpening)

Image > Color Temperature

Atmosphere > Sun

Atmosphere > Texture (let us specify a path to an image... this seems to affect the color of 'bounced' light and it would be great to be able to tweak this)

Thank you,

Chris

I would like more control than the sliders can provide. One way to do this without making the default install intimidating for new users is an "Expert Mode", or even an expert build. Ideally this would allow direct control over the variables being set and the possibility to go even higher. I would be fine with this being provided similar to the preview versions (ie. use at your own risk) The benefit to Enscape is that we are very motivated to see how far we can push the renderer under a variety of conditions. If you let us do that experimentation for you, everyone wins.

I have noticed that changing the groundplane to black for interiors can eliminate strange glows like this.

If I may offer another perspective... many users want to see higher quality and would be happy to wait longer for rendered frames (I certainly would) I do not think the answer is to stop pushing the limits but rather to give more control to the users to customize the output to their needs. I think it would be wonderful if the plugin could run in different "modes" similar to how vray has simple/advanced/expert, etc. This way the default install would remain simple and "newbie proof" while the more advanced users could either choose to push the quality even higher, or throttle it even lower, than what a simple interface can provide for.

I would like to be able to save animations as image sequences, such as png, tga, tif, exr. When doing video editing it is not good to edit from mp4s due to recompression. We are also able to do much better post processing with clean frames as opposed to compressed mp4s.