SkIndigo Progress Updates (Whaat's Development Blog)

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:28 pm

Whaat,

Wow, that's great programming.
Porting a complex material setting (blended material) to a simple Sketchup option (the opacity slider). Amazing.
Very logical and pragmatical.

Ever thought of a second programming career?
You sure have the right "K.I.S.S" attitude to it (="Keep It Simple Stupid").
They should hire you to fine tune the Vray plugin for sketchup too make it more simple and efficient.

Thanks for all that candy,

Kwistenbiebel

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:34 pm

Ono, Whaat!

You've just blown the bank!!!!

This transmittance feature is something the guys at NL haven't been close to cracking yet!!!!

If I'm right this material will suit very well the problem with leaves and curtains where some transmittence is justified.

Whaat:

Will this material be likely supported via the blended material ie: can we still clip the material and enable transmittance???

Brilliant stuff!!!!!!!!

crc · Post by **crc** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:35 am

Hey Whaat, when do we get to try it out? Is it available now or.....

on another note, I dl'd the trial to Vray, couldn't even get into it, way too complicated for my tired brain, the WYSIWYG way you are doing this is truly great and easy to use.
thanks soo much!

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:13 am

crc wrote:Hey Whaat, when do we get to try it out? Is it available now or.....

I will hopefully release a test-release this weekend for you to try out.
Thanks so much for the positive feedback everyone! It is much appreciated!

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:55 am

Richard wrote: Will this material be likely supported via the blended material ie: can we still clip the material and enable transmittance???

This is the lampshade material (same as before) but with a checkered clip map.

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:43 am

I got this idea to see if I could export Sketchup's X-ray display mode. It's maybe not the most useful feature but it might be fun to play around with. It only took me about 15 minutes to code anyway so it's not really a waste of time on my part. To export in x-ray mode....guess what? Turn on Sketchup x-ray mode!! This brilliant feature

will be in the next version of SkIndigo!

Whaat

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:28 am

x-ray = only "thinglass"?

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:09 am

Kram1032 wrote:x-ray = only "thinglass"?

No, x-ray mode will export whatever materials are applied (phong, diffuse, specular, etc.) but they will all be blended with a null material (blend factor is 0.2 in the image above)

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:29 am

ah, I see

Post by **OnoSendai** » Tue May 22, 2007 5:45 pm

Wow, neat idea Whaat!
Will be very useful for product Vis i think.

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:20 pm

Well, I finally squashed the 'bug' of the Sketchup camera view zooming in or out when setting the width and height of the render. It's not really a bug, tho. I just never properly understood the relationship between the Sketchup camera model and the image aspect ratio.
Although this 'bug' wasn't much of a problem for me, I am sure some people out there (kwisten

) will be very glad to see it gone....

On another note, I don't want to give too much away, but I am working on some really cool stuff that will hopefully make it into the next version....

Whaat

2kemon · Post by **2kemon** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:23 pm

...oh, you tease

Now, you know you atleast have to reveal something!!!

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:00 am

Hey Whaat,
Great to see you worked the camera out.
I will check that out.
Thanks very much.

Cheers,
kwsitenbiebel

Whaat · Post by **Whaat** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:43 am

Dummy instancing test: I think the advantages of this feature are pretty obvious, especially to Sketchup users.

Number of cars: 3162
Export time: 8 seconds
Render time: approx. 30 minutes

The way it works right now is any instanced component that is named "NAME_DUMMY" will be treated as a dummy component. The actual geometry exported will be that of the component named "NAME". Make sense?
Now, I think I'll make a forest.....

EDIT: Added (really ugly) forest. Noise free in less than 30 minutes.

Cheers,
Whaat

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:56 am

that's GREAT!!!

Where is the real geometry???

I can't see it in the sketchup view.

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