[fv]

http://forum.sketchup.com/showthread.php?t=74715

hope the link works out. I am a lot more optimistic now about my Maxwell future. I have figured out a good workflow to use Sketchup as my main modeller and do most of the texture mapping as well in SU. I do however always run my models through Studio since I like to clean up the model and import new objects into Studio to keep my SU files small.

I have made a folder within the Maxwell folder (i am on a mac) dedicated to SUtoMaxw and use the material editer to copy/ save any premade .mxm files I use in combination with SU. So when saved there all the texture paths are saved within the texture as well. I rename the downloaded materials to more simple names I also use in SU. This way I can use the plugin to convert all the materials to .mxm files when I export to Maxwell. I also use the original reflectivity maps from the .mxm files to map in SU. All those position are kept in order in Studio and so there is little else to do than checking the model en maybe position some more camera or do previews or alter material or emitter settings. I am very pleased actually after all the hours of trial and error to have come up with a working and actually easily working way of exporting my SU data into high quality renderings. I just finished a design competition that I can not show yet but I hope to be able to present some work in the following months.

[fv]

reading this forum i see some before me have developed the same kind of workflow with materials. that is to say that trial and error should come after reading the forum messages, saves a lot of time......

[Richard]

There have been some good threads on SU to MR workflow on the PPB also mate!

http://www.pushpullbar.com/

[messire]

well since the plug in is so basic, but works, not much to do but work with it...
i've just finished a competition ( arch) with a final sketchup model that is 58 mb, with 100 000 faces and it worked flawlessly.. never even touched the studio once..I'll post some images too when able ( after jury )

I prefer to nest parts of the project using components in the big main file and reload them rather than sending everything in studio where i have to rework all the perspectives, cameras etc..

N.

[fv]

sounds like the one in sweden ....
good luck

[marked001]

I need to download this and test out the automxm since that was the main thing that didnt work for me.

Richard..is there even still a renderer section on PPB?

[Richard]

I need to download this and test out the automxm since that was the main thing that didnt work for me.

Richard..is there even still a renderer section on PPB?

Yes mate!!

http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums//foru ... y.php?f=18

[messire]

sounds exactly like the one in sweden did you do it too?
N.

[fv]

yes we did, the one in sweden. i would not be surprised if there where over 500 submissions. i was in sweden at the tour and the place was crowded with architects. as far as the submission goes, the more conceptual you where the bettter. it was fun to do really, stockholm is beautiful. i saw in stockholm they where really taken by the Seattle library.

[messire]

frankly i did not believe it was important to take a conceptual only approach... i am a more pragmatic kind of architect (french contextualist "school" ( Yves Lyon, Faloci etc ) and the site approach was more important to me than the concept of a seattle like library.. The 24000 m² with a project like oma's would have turned into 50 000 pretty quick ( lots of lost spaces in the seattle's)..It will be very interesting to see how many projects were conceptual like, more realistic kinds, or totally classic.

There was also big choices to make with the annexes and how to deal with asplund's project... surely enough the jury will have to state on what they want...
the way i see it, there will be prices for the extra conceptual but interesting projects, but also realistic and realizable projects have a good chance

when are the results again??? forgot i need some sleep hehe we were only 2.5 workforce for the project. The whole took 3-4 weeks of heavy work.
Did you work with SU/ maxwell for the competition too?

Nils

ps: from my experience.. i think they might receive as much as 500-600 projects... but since the prague competition was just before, it might have drained some energy too!

[fv]

yep, su and max. we spend time on it of and on since it was announced. i have no idea how to look at our submission. i have been doing competitions now for the last two years and what i see is that most organisers have a set of spectacular second and so on prices and the first price goes to a simple solution that is very specific in its spacial planning as far as the program is concerned. also in most cases the winning submissions have gone through a rigorous cost calculation team to protect the organisors from getting into an architectural adventure. usually competitions are not for the newest fashions but just to see if there is a golden idea of simplicity. if it is like that again also this time we have not won ....lol. i am concidering to go to stockholm for the main event when the winnars are announced and to see the submission with my own eyes. thats the only way to see and learn from these competitions. well, wish you luck. my luck is that i rediscovered maxwell in combination with SU and now my clients do not believe what they see...i have to hold back otherwise they think i am overdoing it.

funny, i helped you to the idea of long focal distances for the elevations, i was actually helping the competition in france. hope it actually did help you. we did our elevations and plans in su. it was not easy to push the 1:500's on two A1 sized posters.

i was also in the Gwangju competition and there where only 100+ submission and 20 prices. did not win anything there so i better move on to my real work for some time....lol. still...i did not have maxwell then...

[messire]

thnx for the help got really helpfull and i mean it !. I used SU/MR only for elevations, sections and perspective, the plans and everything else was drawed in autocad, then pshop etc..I like to mix technical solutions depending on my needs!

As for the A1, it all depended on how you took a hold of the site... we decide to KIC ( keep it compact) and not to touch the hill too much, so the plans were narrow in height and more easy to fit. ( no its not a 60 stories tower hehe).. allowing for more images and explainations
My fellow architect whom with i entered the competition also made the korean competition...he went very conceptual, but told me the winner had a more reality, and simplicity ( as well as beeing korean

I cannot wait to see the renders... yes seeing it live in Stockholm might help, but i'm rarely doing those international competition, so defining a theorie on what wins and what does not is not of such importance...I'll get all the PDF's and analyse each project when i can see them!..

Nils

[fv]

ok, happy to see i could help out and it worked for you.
as we did as well, combine all sort of techniques, we use vectorworks for our 2D work and of course PS. vectorworks does a wonderful import export to SU.

the prague competition got 760 entrees. Asplund will get about 500 is my estimate. when you see the A1 posters life i think you get a better idea of how the entrees where percieved by the jury. the scale of the layout is much more important then i used to think. well, the winner will have to do a lot better than have a nice layout. the korean winnar wasn't at all very architectural or beautifully presented. Very Korean though ...
I was surprised to see the Korean winner even had all doors drawn including the way they turn. I think it was the only entree with such detail. it was ready to go, no nasty uncertainties .....lol.

well, better move on to something more maxwell on this forum before we annoy the moderators.