[fv]

thought I make a small list of my render problems in maxwell. Not all related to Sketchup but that is what I use to model. I also use a Mac, OSX and an 8-core intel processor with 4Gb ram.

1. instances, on import into Studio, are lost in space and rescaled (smaller). I also can not select any component in Studio.
2. glass reflects weird when I duplicate and mirror a component.
3. network does not work or I do not know how to get it to work, it takes me too much time to sort it out.
4. displacement materials have to be carefully positioned in SU. Also I have to devide triangles and rectangulars to make displacement mappings look good. Displacement is slow to render and hard to understand as far as precision is concerned. I just type in something and see what happens, anything from 10 to 5000. I have no clue what it should be other than trial and error.

Maxwell for me is 90% troubleshooting and 10% actual data imput to set up a scene. A pity for such a great application.

[fv]

5. can not turn smoothing off for displacement in the materiale editor when the editor is opened stand alone. In Studio I can switch off smooting.

[pelias]

Just to make sure - what version of SketchUp plugin are you using?
There were changes related to instances in the latest version.

There are issues which I am not able to reproduce - turning smoothing off in MXED, selection of components in Studio. Can you provide a sample .mxs file for testing?

Displacement is hard to control on SU mostly because of the way SU generates the geometry - unfortunately there is nothing we can do at the export phase if the original geometry is difficult for mapping displacement. As you've mentioned - subdividing usually helps.

Pavol

[fv]

Thanks Pavol,
version 2.1b for the plugin
In MXED I can not turn of smoothing because the "off" does not scroll down well when in MXED. In studio you can just pulldown the off or on item in the displacement sextion of the materia. I work around this by opening studio and change te material there and export the material again to my library. Its a small bug in MXED on my Macpro 8-core.

I am still working on my glass components and do little work in Studio right now. I will however send you a file with components that does not import very well into Studio. Will send you the mxs file and the SU file as soon as I can.
Francois

[fv]

http://homepage.mac.com/fillieverhoeven ... index.html

things are going better now, solved the glass issue and got displacement to do what I like.

Keep a problem with exporting to Studio. When I check the instances option in the export dialog my model does not import in Studio complete. Some components are either lost or rescaled or dispositioned.

I promised to send a file but its rather large, about 8Mb.
Maybe I make some screenshots of what i mean. Will get back on this.
Thanks