Background Positioning

Hey Al:

I just downloaded V4..........the background positioning wizard is not there as you show it in your tutorial. Am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 30, 2011 at 8:44am

[Edit - I removed this post. It turned out that since we first wrote our save alpha routine for SketchUp, SketchUp has made save alpha image work directly from SketchUp.. (It used to only fork for the Mac). So we will use that instead.]

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 30, 2011 at 8:46am

Actually your question "Where is the Wizard" may have meant "Where is it in IRender nXt"

If so, ignore all the additional explanation.

The Background Positioning Wizard is loaded from the Preview button on the Background Setup tab in IRender nXt.

Or you might have been referring to the Lighting Channels Wizard in one of Boothy's posts.

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on September 30, 2011 at 9:34am

Yes I will ignore additional explanations because I have something else in mind at the moment and I don't really understand it. -Lol-

So, I think I'm effectively talking about this "Preview" button. See below

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 30, 2011 at 9:52am

Your preview button is there, but it is greyed out, (disabled).

It is greyed out because your background image is a .HDR, and our background wizard only works with standard raster image formats such as .JPG and .PNG

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on September 30, 2011 at 9:59am

ah ok, I just selected the bad image

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Permalink Reply by Boothy on October 1, 2011 at 1:40am

Hi Al\Rich

K130 seem to work fine - thanks very much - Rich perspective mode is a very nice touch !

1.If you are thinking of an horizon line toggle a toggled`perspective grid`would make it virtually idiot proof.

2.Could you apply self glow to background image ?

Thanks again

Boothy

Boothy said:

Hi Al \Rich

The dialog now opens fully on my 64 bit office machine - it also closes without bugsplat.

Unfortunately :-

1. You cannot see image (see image below) due to windows being occluded (the background wizard works fine post render in render window).

2. If you close back wizard in SU and reopen the wizard straight away the dialodgpresumes that no image is loaded and you have to reload image via browser although the previous image has not been cleared.

Thanks

Boothy

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Permalink Reply by Boothy on October 1, 2011 at 6:47am

OOPs !

The background wizard is now working OK in SU but the background is not visible in initial render - if you rerender in render window it works OK. Also background wizard is not retaining\saving image.

Boothy

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 1, 2011 at 7:17am

Oops - I see the same problems.

- The Perspective settings are not coming over from SketchUp

- When I browse for a background image, it does not always appear in the wizard.

We'll fix these and get a new version out Monday.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Alan Krupp on October 1, 2011 at 11:59am

Al:

How does one get to the "position background" settings in SketchUp for nXt?

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on October 1, 2011 at 2:27pm

You click on the Preview/Position button on the Background tab:

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Alan Krupp on October 2, 2011 at 6:32pm

Al:
I get this white rectangle that appears to represent the PC screen laid over the background image.....is this correct? I'll bet not.

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Alan Krupp on October 2, 2011 at 6:36pm

Al:
I get this white rectangle that appears to represent the PC screen laid over the background image.....is this correct? I'll bet not. I see the SU model and I see the background jpg, but it's behind the white rectangle that covers virtually all of the background.
I'd like to upload an image but can't find a method to attach it to this message.

Chris