Posts by Adam.Fairclough

Quote from Demian Gutberlet

That is indeed the case. It's an obvious recommendation but, you may want to try to keep such objects in focus while the rest can be blurred.

Just as an example:

Even in this example the DOF has no awareness of the object - you cans artefacts and weirdness - the amount of blur across that glass is down to the surface that is behind it - in that case the surface of the table.

You can see the same effect here too, but the wall is the area in focus.

With that in mind, placing a cluster of other objects behind would help render it with a more appropriate level of blur.

I don't think this can be avoided due to how enscape is setup to handle transparent objects - a technical challenge for any realtime renderer,

You could work around it by rendering a 2nd image with a solid material for the glass - then using the depth output in photoshop to create the depth of field - rather than doing that in Enscape.

But even then, that may create some strangeness through the glass as what is behind it would not be blurred.

You say that it's not specific to any job/model, what does it do if you start a new model in SU and just have a floor plane and a cube? Is it still choppy/blurry there?

Are you connected with a cable or are you trying to do it wirelessly? (wireless requires a more controlled enviroment and good network hardware)

Last time I upgraded my GPU I had to clean the drivers out before it worked properly.

It may be there are some cached shaders or something else causing issues.

You could try using DDU :

https://www.guru3d.com/files-tags/download-ddu.html

Quote from Abu

I have found another render that proofs better quality of old enscape grass (before 03/2018).

The grass bed is lower than the path in all of those pictures- which is one of the ways to handle the grass

unfortunately, you can't use a transmittance based material with a video texture

So you have a few other choices

1. Don't use a video texture

2.Use a transparency cutout material , although this is a noisy option

Lace curtain material settings ? - SketchUp - Enscape Community Forum (enscape3d.com)

3. Render you camera movements with the background plate and then one with just the video screens and composite in a video editor

Quote from Tracyheywood

thanks for that! :0)

You're welcome

If you've done an update from 2021 to 2022, you'll actually have both versions installed - so you just need to start 2021 and it should all be as it was.

However, Enscape has just released for SketchUp 2022 - you can download it here

Enscape™ - Download (enscape3d.com)

Quote from BAD_5318

I'm running Revit through Parallels on a Macbook pro M1 & as has been well documented, Enscape is incompatible due to the limitations of Parallels Open GL support. Is there any chance that the upcoming Enscape for Mac release will somehow allow for mac-based virtual machine Revit users to workaround these issues?

Assuming no because this is a less-common setup, but it would be great to know if at some point there will be a feasible solution to running Enscape/Revit on an M1 machine.

Also - I assumed that I would be able to at least run an enscape .exe in the parallels environment (again, this on an M1 machine) however it appears that does not work either.

That sounds like a question for parallels - it sounds like they need to improve their open GL support.

Enscape is moving towards Vulkan too, which parallels also doesn’t support.

Quote from iancamarillo

While compatibility is being sorted out with M1, anyone know if a temporary solution like using a Black Magic eGPU would work?

I'm not sure if you mean for the older machines or the new ones , but Apple don't support eGPUs on the M1 Macs currently - and it's uncertain if they will in future.

Perhaps when / if they rejuvenate the Mac Pros with their own chips then we will see support.

Quote from Clemens Musterle

For regular scene textures (except displacement maps) only (the standard) 8bit precision per channel is used - going higher there (e.g. using EXR) doesn't make sense for regular renderings.

That’s great thanks, good to see displacement maps use it.

Also, is there an upper limit on the resolution that Enscape will use for textures?

Bit depth still counts I presume?

Markers of power in 2022?

VRAM and CPU.

You will only get large amounts of V-RAM on high spec cards, CPU becomes more important for the high framerates required for VR

If you have a SketchUp subscription, you can have it installed in 3 places at any one time.

Alternatively you could export from SketchUp in .IFC, which is something Revit can open easily.

Quote from NoMasCorona

Very interesting, Adam. I have never made use of normal maps before 😬 but I like the way you have so clearly described how to do this. I will try it!

Normal maps were the newer version of a bump map, so those are the ones that you should use most often - only when you need a deeper relief might you need to also use a displacement map

Quote from NoMasCorona

I don't have relief either with my displacement map (for very rough concrete). It's a PBR texture from ShareTextures. Just the shadow, but flat, with no relief.

Here is a quick guide as to how to get it to work - I'll use a sharetextures example : Brick Wall 5 in 1K (a sensible choice for real time)

Also worth noting that Sharetextures seem to use 8bit Jpeg files - ideally we would like 16bit PNG files for this.

I'm going to extract these into a folder and open the Normal Map and the displacement map in Photoshop

When the normal map is open I'm going to open the channels and press the plus button

This will create an alpha channel

now go to the tab with the displacement map in and press ctrl-a (select all) and ctrl-c (copy) to copy this displacement map

Go back to the normal map tab and paste the displacement map into the black alpha channel

If you click the eyeball next to RGB in the bottom right , it will show all channels combined - in this example it looks a little more red than it did.

Save the file as a tiff.

Load this into Enscape's height slot and choose "displacement"

This will load both the displacement AND the normal information in

Notice that Enscape shows the alpha map we loaded in as the black details

This will give you a nice result than using just normal/displacement, but as is always the case with Parralax occlusion maps (which is what the displaceme is) this does not change the silhouette of the object

I notice they launched a separate range of low poly assets specifically aimed at Enscape and they talk about how well those perform there. I’m guessing you are using the original versions

Quote from VStudio

RTX 3080 Ti

We specifically upgraded to this GPU hoping for better performance and quality using RTX but honestly, most of the time I end up disabling Hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing, NVIDIA Denoiser and NVIDIA DLSS because of crashes. When I say crashes, I mean like hard, SketchUp just closes crashes.

Are you using the Proxy versions inside of SketchUp?

It's not going to affect performance until you've used up that memory.

My laptop workstation has 6GB and I've got some full masterplan sized projects that get close to that - with raytraced shadows enabled I will get messages telling me I'm running out of memory.

It's going to depend on the complexity of your project and how well you optimise it to work within that memory budget.

I don't know what the logic is for what is a duplicate , but if you try importing the same enscape texture into a model multiple times, then renaming each one, the plugin merges them.

(I just gave it a go as I've never given it a thought about how it works)

I guess even just merging duplicate RGB triplets means there are 16million+ possible combos, so the chances of erroneous merging must be small

The plugin is super useful, one of my most used!

I use these settings reguarly