Sketchup 2014

[Gordon Prieb]

I purchased Twilight a week or so ago and downloaded it to Sketchup version 8. That went well. Today I upgraded to version 2014 and cannot figure out how to move Twilight to the 2014 Plugin Menu. I've read as much as I could on both Sketchup and Twilight forums about this issue and have tried everything that was suggested and still no success. Any advice? I did manage to get "Plugin" to show on the top bar in Sketchup after downloading Sketchucation's Plugin manager but I can't find "Plugin" in Sketchup 2014's Program Files. Any advice?

[Chris]

There's no need to "migrate" Twilight Render from SketchUp 8 to SketchUp 2014. Just download the latest version from the website (http://www.twilightrender.com/index.php ... op/upgrade) and reinstall Twilight Render.

If you are on Windows, you will need to make sure you use the correct install path. If you previously had Twilight Render installed for SketchUp 8, it will probably default to the SketchUp 8 plugins directory. In the installer, there is a drop down list underneath the install path. Select "2014" in it and it will set the install path to the correct location for SketchUp 2014.

If you have previously tried to move Twilight Render to SketchUp manually, you probably want to delete it. If it wasn't placed in the right location, it could cause a conflict once it is finally installed correctly.

[Gordon Prieb]

Yeah, it worked! I had already tried everything you suggested except deleting Twilight altogether. Deleting always makes me a bit nervous. But once I did. Everything worked just as you said. Thanks a lot.

[Chris]

[majid]

Good news and thank you for the update
I updated to latest version and just modeled a simple donate using follow me tool and the render result is strange.... it is not smooth ! ( Thea is working fine with he same file
here is the result:

[Fletch]

select all smooth geometry and place in a group or component.
render will be smooth.

[majid]

it works, while is a bit odd, aint?

[Chris]

It has always been like that. When we get the geometry normals from SketchUp via the ruby API, that's just how they come out. We were never able to figure out specifically why that happens.

[majid]

Odd, BTW Thea is working fine, so maybe there is a solution...

[Frederik]

Odd, BTW Thea is working fine, so maybe there is a solution...

Why do you refer to Thea...?
You could have written Maxwell, Vray or any other render app...
It's the way TWR is handling the geometry and has nothing to do with other render apps...