new version worked, now dumps me out

Unexpected ERROR during: Export Entities and Start Ray Trace:
   IN C:/Users/Christopher/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/RPS_IRender_nXt/ruby/raydll_texturewriter.rb 163 in tr!
         called from C:/Users/Christopher/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/RPS_IRender_nXt/ruby/raydll_texturewriter.rb 163 in block in escape_bad_characters
   incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

Here's the error message

This model rendered fine, then added some landscape and the whole world blew up!

This is from your new version for SU2014

Thanks for your assistance

Attachments:

nXt Error message.JPG, 38 KB

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 3, 2014 at 9:04am

Any chance that you could send me that model, so that I could reproduce this?

http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/uploads/

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Alan Krupp on March 3, 2014 at 4:25pm

Rich:

It turns out that a single plant component was the culprit. By process of elimination I deleted and put back the various plants in the model. Once I found the "bad, bad" component, everything is fine. Oddly, I've used this plant in many other renderings and had no issue.

I've attached the plant component, the model is way too big for your limit.

Chris

Attachments:

Agaphantus Flowers.skp, 797 KB

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 3, 2014 at 5:31pm

Yeah, it extracts and renders OK in SketchUp 2013, but not in SketchUp 14.

I notice that If I extract the texture image from that material in SketchUp 14, rename it from:

agapanthus.alacali.jpg

to simply:

agapanthus.jpg

then it render OK for me in SketchUp 2014.

So you might be able to do something like that and resave the component.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Alan Krupp on March 4, 2014 at 3:58pm

Rich:

That sounds good...........only, how do you extract the image? I'm sure it's likely simple but I have no real clue. Let me know how to go about this.

Thanks,

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 4, 2014 at 4:57pm

From the SketchUp Materials dialog, select the material in the model and use the Edit tecture image button to open it in an image editor, then save it with any name you want, then reload it in as the texture for the SketchUp material.

We'll see if this is something we can fix here for a new release..