New to IRender nXt... need help...

Hi there. I've been using sketch-up for many years and only recently saw the advances in Rendering capabilities. With a new project I am working on I decided trying IRender nXt would be a great option to get better quality from the model.

I have installed it and ran the first few tutorials successfully. And given it is pitched as being a "out of the box" rendering engine I jumo right into my model and hit RENDER without changing settings.

The output is not my sketch-up view rendered like when I tested with "Brice" but instead just a solid color with maybe some smoothing and streaks.

I am not sure what I need to be doing to get it to render by current view.

Any help would be great!

I attached the render outcome and here is a link to the model:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/33d1ckugrwg4rpw/Pugly%20v2%20-%20test.skp...

Mike

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 10, 2015 at 2:08pm

It's rendering for me:

Perhaps it was a different scene that you were rendering?

Sometimes we see what you showed when there is a section plane in a model. SketchUp doesn't tell us which sction planes are "active", so we apply any that are not hidden. That may be what you are seeing.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Haddon on June 10, 2015 at 2:42pm

Thanks Rich. I can't image a different scene. I really just opened the model. Added the scene I wanted to test in the Scene manager and I hit RENDER. I didn't change any settings, I don't use section planes, seems odd to me. Any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 10, 2015 at 3:18pm

By "Added the scene I wanted to test in the Scene manager" do you mean that you made a new scene that perhaps I don't have in the model that you posted for us?

Or did you try to render the same scene that I did, the one called "Outer Model"?

Also, could you check to make sure that this box isn't checked:

That was a feature that we put in for people who knew that they always wanted to render to the same view. It overrides what ever view that you are currently in in SketchUp. That could definitely result in something like you got.

Otherwise, could you try to render it again, and use this button:

to send me everything that we save to the disk before rendering? Then I can look through that and see if I get a clue.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Haddon on June 10, 2015 at 9:57pm

Thanks Rich. I deleted the saved view from the scene manager in sketch-up and closed the file. I reopened and went to the "ouster main" scene and rendered fresh. It worked great.

I now have to start working on the skill of the outside sunlight balanced with inside lighting that I will have to add. But this closes this thread. More to come I am sure.