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by sauronblue
Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:38 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

No, I'm just a lowly trial user - have I been getting too much assistance? Well, I've read the whole manual, and taken much advise and suggestion. Figuring out how to tell what faces are reversed, and how to fix was a huge help, but all of the info was quite helpful. I can see that in some situation...
by sauronblue
Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:12 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

I'm sorry for being gone so long, and I really appreciate all of your efforts. I had managed to squeak by with the renderings I had, so I just gave up trying to get better, consistent results. I've now been asked to revisit this project and spice it up. I understand and agree with most of what you g...
by sauronblue
Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:14 pm
Forum: Work in Progress
Topic: Flaming diamond
Replies: 12
Views: 30200

Re: Flaming diamond

Diamonds advertising made without dispersion. It is very important for photographers, the rays did not leave the diamond. They need to keep a light inside the diamond. :halo: A short guide on how to obtain dispersion :totgm: I'm so far from tackling diamond refraction, but maybe this will help me w...
by sauronblue
Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:35 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

This is my scene in Su, with glass panels in a copper frame with plastic moulding holding the windows in: SU.jpg This is a Medium+ rendering of that scene: TL.jpg I honestly feel that the SU display is leaps and bounds above the render, there's gotta be something wrong going on here? Not trying to b...
by sauronblue
Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:55 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

It doesn't automatically change the diffuse color, because Twilight Presumes you have painted it a color inside of the SketchUp view and prefer to keep it that way. If you want it now to be copper colored instead of silver, changing the DIFFUSE color in the Twilight Material Editor dialog Diffuse c...
by sauronblue
Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:47 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

Do you mean you expect the color of the material in the SU view to change? It does not. Twilight Render does not make assumptions like that. You can explicitly change the color from the TW Material Editor, but changing the template will not change the SU material automatically. This is intentional....
by sauronblue
Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:31 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

I'm sorry, I haven't had time to test your solution of removing vray yet. I mentioned at least twice that I have vray and shaderlight installed, but I haven't touched either of them in a week, as I've been working with twilight. They are installed, but I'm not switching back and forth in the same se...
by sauronblue
Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:39 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

Yes, I see that I forgot to post the image. I guess I can upload the skp, but it feels a bit weird, like dropping your kid at daycare for the first time lol. I don't understand how the issue with twilight can be resolved remotely, bc I'd assume it would be an issue with my system or my specific inst...
by sauronblue
Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:18 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Re: Material editor ineffective?

Thanks for the reply! I don't think that's my issue, I haven't opened the render window since launching this instance of SU, but there's still no change in the look of the material in SU. I was wrong about the ruby console, theres errors every time it messes up, as I show in the pic. The material in...
by sauronblue
Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:54 pm
Forum: Materials and Resources
Topic: Material editor ineffective?
Replies: 19
Views: 27755

Material editor ineffective?

I've gone thru all the powerpoint tutorials, and have successfully changed some materials, but often times, I open the editor, use the dropper to select a material, but have problems changing this material to a new one. What happens is; I open the editor in SU, dropper up the mat I wanna change, the...