Rendering windows

[Qualia]

Hi,

I'm a complete rookie in Sketchup and rendering. I jut started a few days ago. I modelled a house and installed Skindigo 0.9. I have a couple of windows with sketchup material 'transculent_glass_blue', thickness 2cm. I set these to 'specular 1.52' in Skindigo. The other options I left with default values.

After rendering for about 15 hours on my MacbookPro I have some reflection in the windows, but also lots of black pixels (see attachment).

Should I render even longer, or am I doing this completely wrong?

Next step is to get the bricks a little better. So maybe a little help on how using bumpmaps would be helpfull too .

Hope someone wants to help me a little further, I think this stuff is really cool and I would love to get my models a little more presentable...

Grtz.

[Pibuz]

Hi Qualia! Welcome!
First thing: i like the modeling of your home (i'm an architect): is it a project of yours?

Then: i strongly suggest you go and download the 1.0.5 beta version; i use it and i ensure you that it's stable enough. plus, it has many features more than the stable 0.9 version, so go for it!

Using bump map, you say..
So, in another thread, don't remember which one, this topic has been covered, and there's also a good video tut by Magic Whaat.

If you want i can give you an hint on their use in SkIndigo 1.0.5.
It's very simple.
Double click on Su mat to open the indigo mat editor; at the bottom of the window there should be a list of maps (if not click on the "switch UI" button): one of them is BUMP; click on its right and from the menu choose a map (here you'll find all the textures you put in your SU model). Then add a bump gain (=strength), try little values like 0.1, 0.05 first..
DONE!

Cheers!!

[Qualia]

Hey Pibuz,

Thanks for the quick reply!

Gonna give it a try.

I made this model from a drawing a friend of mine made for his future house... Maybe when I get better at this, I'll find myself an architect to model his plans for .