I am surprised that enscape released this version given how unstable the last preview version was, i was expecting a release candidate before the main release.
Posts by Nuge
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I tried it with a GTX3090 but found it to be quite slow and unresponsive and had a number of crashes, I still hate the twinmotion UI it looks like its built for kids not professionals
I would love enscape to give us an EXTREME setting that would take a lot longer to render but give better reflections etc
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Can we also get better control of the spacing, and perhaps allow for overlapping. currently assets are placed too far apart for planting to look realistic
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It will depend on your hardware and if you have enough GPU memory to run it, create the asset and give a try, worst that can happen is that it crashes and then you know that it wont work.
Do not try to import a model like that directly into archicad, it just won't handle that many polys. you could convert to a point cloud and open in archicad but then you can't render/view in enscape
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getting constant crashes when trying to scale objects in Archicad (have send logs) and i see that some code is added to the archicad GDL objects, Can someone from enscape please explain the logic / process here. i have numerous archicad GDL objects that have been coded to get the 2D (and sometimes 3d) look i need. these objects don't seem to play very well with what ever changes are being made. Happy to add in specific code to these objects to make them work correctly. also why can't we use this same logic to allow for the z rotation of these objects (its a simple rotz command within the GDL code)?
Note all of these GDL objects are already within my loaded library or embedded library and are not reloaded when an enscape object is placed (it just places a copy of the already loaded object)
I hope your are not relying on placing assets for each project clean from the asset library to create a new GDL object, if so how are you planning on dealing with existing projects
Bump, still looking for answers regarding the archicad object implementation strategy for enscape
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Also, when I tried to do the multi-object placement (as soon as I click on the "3 trees" icon), enscape crashes and takes Revit with it (with data loss).
I really hope you will take your time and ensure stability is brought back to 2.9 levels. I personally wouldn't mind if that meant postponing the release for a few weeks or longer.
totally agree, this release feels very unstable, also had issue with Asset button greyed out with caption "disabled when unable to activate live updates" so i can even open the asset browser within enscape. have sent feedback and log files
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getting constant crashes when trying to scale objects in Archicad (have send logs) and i see that some code is added to the archicad GDL objects, Can someone from enscape please explain the logic / process here. i have numerous archicad GDL objects that have been coded to get the 2D (and sometimes 3d) look i need. these objects don't seem to play very well with what ever changes are being made. Happy to add in specific code to these objects to make them work correctly. also why can't we use this same logic to allow for the z rotation of these objects (its a simple rotz command within the GDL code)?
Note all of these GDL objects are already within my loaded library or embedded library and are not reloaded when an enscape object is placed (it just places a copy of the already loaded object)
I hope your are not relying on placing assets for each project clean from the asset library to create a new GDL object, if so how are you planning on dealing with existing projects
Enscape developers any comment?
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So I did update my drivers... But I also installed the NEXT PREVIEW +7... Seems to be working now...
Regarding the other GHOST Texture Map issue... it did turn out to be an ALPHA CHANNEL not resizing with the main texture...
This has long been an issue for me (reported elsewhere)...
1. Create material in archicad with a texture.
2. Modify in ENSCAPE
a. Either add a BUMP MAP (can only do this in enscape material editor)
b. or add TINT in enscape (often texture mapped materials that look fine in ArchiCAD come out TOO LIGHT in enscape)
3. Make any edit in ArchiCAD or Enscape and the texture typically just CHANGES (to something previously used or to just a COLOR) while the bump map does not.
Anyway... these are fixable by going back in and editing again... Typically copy and paste SIZING from Texture Map to Bump Map... Often required to "manually" change the TEXTURE map reference (btw... I can only point to a texture ON MY HARD DRIVE and not anything that is already in my loaded libraries)...
Just seems to me like the SYNCing feature between ArchiCAD and Enscape materials seems suspect...
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Yes i confirm this is an issue, it doesnt like if a material is updated in archicad.
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getting constant crashes when trying to scale objects in Archicad (have send logs) and i see that some code is added to the archicad GDL objects, Can someone from enscape please explain the logic / process here. i have numerous archicad GDL objects that have been coded to get the 2D (and sometimes 3d) look i need. these objects don't seem to play very well with what ever changes are being made. Happy to add in specific code to these objects to make them work correctly. also why can't we use this same logic to allow for the z rotation of these objects (its a simple rotz command within the GDL code)?
Note all of these GDL objects are already within my loaded library or embedded library and are not reloaded when an enscape object is placed (it just places a copy of the already loaded object)
I hope your are not relying on placing assets for each project clean from the asset library to create a new GDL object, if so how are you planning on dealing with existing projects
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Nuge I understand the pain of having to edit these old assets. I'm in the same boat. But we shouldn't blame Enscape (and especially Christian) for this as they were clear in the beginning about this being a temporary hack that wasn't guaranteed to work in the long run.
If it's just the metadata of the asset that needs to change I can probably write a simple converter to make the legacy assets compatible again. But that's not fundamentally solving the problem and building a tool to turns them into proper assets (including an Asset Project file so you can edit them in the asset editor) is a much larger undertaking. For what it's worth, I'm considering biting the bullet and converting these into proper assets manually... You can manually edit the newly created assets ID's so they match the old asset to prevent old projects from breaking.
Pieter,
I dont blame enscape and understand as early adopters we run this risk, just not wanting to do the work to convert them all, Like you thinking i might just have to bite the bullet to ensure future compatibility
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I think this is somewhat unfair, any official Enscape asset or asset created with the Custom Asset Editor will work we test against those.
Pieter's predecessor to editor is not an official release and we never used it internally so compatibility is not guaranteed. Basically the assets created with it can be considered "third-party".I understand and can relate to the issues when trying to maintain and organize larger custom asset libraries I unfortunately cannot give you any news regarding changes there for the 3.2 release.
Christian,
I wasn't trying to be unfair, i just would like to know if this is going to be an issue for each new release. as the thought of "editing" all of my existing old assets again and again is somewhat overwhelming, not to mention difficult given the number of projects that are linked to those "third party" objects.
As i am an archicad user the custom assets have become an integral part of my work flow, having edited both the 3D & 2D scripts of the Archicad GDL objects to suit my own style, Recreating the "third party" assets with enscape will be somewhat of a monumental undertaking which i am trying to avoid. I have approx 800 custom assets and about half were created using Pieters third party tool prior to enscape releasing its custom asset tool.
Just trying to understand if i and when i might need to recreate all of these?
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Christian,
adding the spaces doesn't work for long names, no text wrapping apparent, problem persists
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Christian,
Thanks for your reply, and yes it appears to only need the revision field to be amended, is this going to be an issue for every new release (having to edit my old assets)
Also is it possible for the search function to search on the description as well as the name for the custom assets, as i assume we are not getting categories for custom assets any time soon? and this at least would give us a better option than trying to name everything so its searchable
Pieter, sorry for the heart attack!!!
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Pieter
I had the same issue, you will need to edit the json file of any objects created with your "old" object creator so that the header info is as in the example below
The Revision needs to be 0 & Category & Description need to be null & the tags needs to be []
I suspect you have populated these fields in the hope of getting enscape to read/filter on the category/tags, maybe one day we might see it!!!
{
"Id": "cf57eca3-7d19-4934-9882-8f7e5f91f828",
"Revision": 0,
"Name": "DP-DECO-ART-200",
"Category": null,
"Description": null,
"Tags": [],
"Outline": {
"Points": "AAEAAAD/////AQAA
PS it was a total pain as i had over 400 objects to manually edit. glad its done now!!
Nuge
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Can we please get the custom asset name made smaller or moved to the side to show the full asset name
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I don't know what format the web export does. It seems it may be a glTF compressed in gzip without a header. Whatever it is it does mind for me if we could have a glTF model for local playing in some glTF light viewers as PlayCanvas glTF viewer or Unreal (Khronos Group-based) viewer are. glTF app-web viewers are the lightest viewers for computers without enough graphics power. Why I'm asking for export to glTF? Well, my main customer does demos to its customers at their facilities, hospitals, and many times in places where they don't have an internet connection. So the default online mode is not useful for them. And their notebooks haven't the needed graphic power for other kinds of 3d model viewers in local mode.
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Certainly, please get in contact with us on our website
and we will be able to provide you with the sampleCheers, have just sent you a message via your website, Are you going to have an enscape version available for all of your plants as I see that only a limited selection is available at the moment.
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Hey guys, we at Globe Plants will be introducing our vegetation models for Enscape Custom Asset Library hopefully early next week. Our low poly models are reduced heavily in polygon to approx 100k max for very complex species and most species are roughly around 10k polygons.
You can use our assets for Revit/Vectorworks/SketchUp/Rhino with Enscape.
Please look forward to them
Is there any chance you could provide a sample object for us to evaluate, looks very promising
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I thought that it had been "prioritized and scheduled properly" for this release, guess not. bummer
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Hana,
So has this been put in the too hard basket and therefore it will never happen, or have you decided not to spend the resources to make it happen at the moment?
