V2 Tutorials Animated Snippets #Proxycomponents
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:09 pm
#Instances #Instancing #proxies #components #proxycomponents
A Proxy is a small stand-in model that takes the place of another more complex model.
In Twilight V2 you can select any component in your model, right-click and choose an option:
A Proxy is a small stand-in model that takes the place of another more complex model.
In Twilight V2 you can select any component in your model, right-click and choose an option:
- Twilight V2>Proxy Tool
> Opens Tool allowing you to place proxy component "billboard boxes" around your scene. When rendered, the proxies will be the same geometry as the original component chosen. Be sure that the original component chosen is at it's original insertion scale/size. If not, the proxy created will be either too big or too small because it will be created at the original component scale. If you desire a scale other than the original insertion scale for the component, you must first select the component in SketchUp after it has been scaled, right-click and choose "Scale Definition" for the component then choosing component again and choosing "make unique" will also make the Twilight V2 Proxy tool use the new scale. Or you must explode it, and create a new component from the exploded geometry. Also, be sure that the component's axes are oriented as you desire before creating the proxy (select component>Right-click>Change Axes) because the proxy will use the component's axis for generating it's red, blue, and green axis billboards. If your proxy does not look right, it's likely the Axes or the scale for the original component were set incorrectly. - Twilight V2>Convert to Proxy
> The Proxy Tool will leave the original component "untouched" or "unchanged". But in case the original component itself is way too poly heavy for SketchUp to navigate easily, you may want the original component itself to be represented with a proxy billboard box instead. Choose "Convert to Proxy" to accomplish this. Then this proxy component can be copied around your scene however you wish or used for automatic component distribution with a plugin such as Fur plugin for Spray component plugin, just to name a few of the many plugins available for this purpose. - Twilight V2>Set External Proxy
> You may have created some amazing car, person, or tree in Kerkythea (The world-renowned free render studio).
If you wish to see them in your SketchUp renderings this is NOW POSSIBLE with "Set External Proxy". You could even set up entire parking lots of cars ready to render in Kerkythea, and in SketchUp have an empty parking lot component which is the same parking striping layout,then set the external proxy for your empty parking lot to the Kerkythea parking lot scene. When rendered with Twilight, the cars will be rendered with your SU model.