We saw a news this morning that LUMION10.3 supports displacement mapping
Yeah I just saw the new Feature of TwinMotion 2020 and wow! big advancements. I'm sure Enscape has some fun surprises this year for us.
Posts by jtubb
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If you wish to have animated textures in the future, let me know and I'll forward it accordingly as feedback.
+1 on this.
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I use Megascans on a regular basis, and uses transmutr to get them into sketchup. Transmutr has a direct link with quixel bridge, and can save models directly as enscape proxies. it is not exactly the same as having them go into the actual asset library, but it works very well!! all materials are set up correctly, and you can even tweak the poly count before importing.
So i just updated my transmutr app as it seem more stable. I tried the enscape proxy option. I see it makes two model 1) reference 2)full geo. What is the proper workflow to get this to work in enscape?
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The user sent me this screen capture. Told this person to submit the logs but they didn't.
Any thoughts
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Do you have Photoshop running in GPU mode? This would explain out-of-memory crashes because Photoshop, as well as Enscape, may use really a lot of GPU VRAM.
Thats it! good call.
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I experience this a lot. I believe it may have something to do with my RAM resources. My current hypothesis is if I have Photoshop open with files open and I try to render in Enscape. Enscape + SkechUp will crash. If I close out of PS and do the same render works perfectly. Not fully sure if RAM swapping is causing the crash but the current work-around seems to be helping my situation until I can get more memory.
Current my machine has 32 gb of RAM.
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+1 for normal and/or displacement map support.
In the meantime, I saw some talk earlier in the thread of adding a "_n" suffix.
Does this work in sketchup? in Rhino? And where is that suffix containing normal map added, to the bump slot?thx!
That is new info to me. So far is you input a properly generated normal map it should work fine. I have only have a couple occasions where it didn't work.
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PS @jtubb now U can take a note about Alchemist normal map and correct your advice=). And my analogy for You know who: When play a piano use left hand instead right to get correct melody =)
I still recommend substance - best tool i have used for producing PBD materials.
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Thanks for answer! What do you mean "Download Substance"?
Substance is a material creation tool.
Their platform Alchemist is great for converting Bitmaps into PBR materials.
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well, that is not true
It completely depends on the quality of the maps. a bad normal map will look worse than a good bump map. but the normal map has the POTENTIAL to be a lot better.its a bit like a small keyboard vs. a grand piano: they will both sound bad if you dont know how to play, but IF you can play, there is a lot more notes on the grand piano
Agreed! - Love the piano analogy.
Abu Download Substance and get it a go. You will find that in Enscape quality textures will have a massive impact on your renders.
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(requested a few times in different formats: Light Placement SketchUp - make it easier)
Oh i know its clear everyone isnt a fan of their use of placing light but, why is there a limit of the size of the light?
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Is there a reason the max length and width is 3m? And can we make it easy to add into the model?
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My wish would be in the library that we have the possibility to change the colors of the car, light up the lights etc.
This increases the versatility of the library objects
Yes - Agree!
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In order to tell Enscape that it is a normal map and not just a bump map, add an _n at the end of image name.
That is new info - But Normal maps are quite different than a Bump map. The main difference is Normal maps provide more data due to the RGB values. Bump maps are black to white base date. A quick google search will tell you more.
However, the "_n" is a bit interesting as some normal maps that I have created using Substance don't away resister. Enscape doesn't have a "normal map slot" its "auto" detected in the bump slot so if the "_n" actual work I would be very surprise as none of the Enscape Devs have shared this after a number of troubleshooting post i have made in the past.
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Hmm okay So i believe i found the issue while was by absolute luck. Turns out that that I had a Photoshop file (PSD) piped into a SKP material by mistake and that caused Enscape to have the error. However If a different material was selected then open the enscape material editor then no error would appear.
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Enscape Devs. What is causing this issue? It appears to be just this file as I open a different SKP file and the editor opened. I haven't done anything different and before start the laborious process of copying and pasting into a new file I wanted to see if this code could be translated and if troubleshoot suggestions could be shared.
Please see attached image.
Added not enscape still opens but the material editor doesn't.
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Has the agenda page been removed?
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I have done this now, but again to be sure, when hitting save in the sketchup file drop down, does this or does it not save the visual presets to the current running preset file? i.e do I need to save my model file and then also save my presets everytime I adjust them?
I will go away after this
haha
Think of this: Sketchup and Enscape are completely separate - meaning that If you set you settings for Enscape they are not bond to a partially SketchUp file. For example, If you set enscape settings for say SKP Project A and then open up Project B the settings that you made for Project A will still be applied.