Edge lines showing - URGENT HELP NEEDED

opened a rendering used a few months ago, very minor change to a wall, ran the rendering, poorest thing I've ever seen - edge lines are showing up everywhere. I did nto change any settings. Checked, and No edge lines" is checked. The quality is poor even though run at hi res - see sample. Is my nxt broke? Need to produce this by end of day. Appreciate any suggestions.

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Permalink Reply by Russell D. Houlden on April 19, 2016 at 7:21am

Click "Setup Options" - then on the Special tab look for "Edge Lines" and set this value to "No Edge Lines", then render again.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 19, 2016 at 8:24am

Send the model to support@renderplus.com and we will take a look.

If it is too large to send buy email, use our upload page:

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

And send an email to support@renderplus.com so we will know you have uploaded it.

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Permalink Reply by Russell D. Houlden on April 19, 2016 at 10:01am

As soon as I loaded factory defaults for Setup Options - the model rendered properly! (No edge lines). Rich noticed that the setting on the Fgnd tab, "Use Edge Lines for foreground" was checked. Uncheck this option and the model renders properly.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Goldberg on April 19, 2016 at 10:13am

well if it was checked, no way for me to find out. As I told Russel in a separate email, 1/2 of my setup options are missing. I'm only getting the top half - refer to the above screen captures of the forground and special tab as examples. Something is wrong obviously

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Permalink Reply by Russell D. Houlden on April 19, 2016 at 10:21am

Setup Options is an expandable/collapsible menu - click to expand so that you can see all of the options.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 19, 2016 at 10:31am

""Use Edge Lines for foreground""

Good catch!

We have two edge line settings - one renders them as geometry - and they reflect properly - but the rendering takes longer and the edges further from the camera are narrower.

The "foreground" option superimposes the edge lines from the SketchUp image onto the rendered image.

Rendering with edge lines superimposed:

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Permalink Reply by Larry Goldberg on April 19, 2016 at 10:41am

thanks guys, that worked. I'm far from a newbie with you, but you might want to add a little note somewhere on the dialogue box or make the full size default. Appreciate the quick response, you saved the day as usual

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 19, 2016 at 11:34am

I like to create smaller rendering the first time a new user tries IRender nXt- so they will be faster. I feel that lots of SketchUp users maximize SketchUp in Windows which makes the SketchUp window 1900 pixels or so.

With a default rendering size of 600 or 900 pixels, a new users first rendering will be 4 to 9 times faster.

If you are rendering for a 24" x 18" color print at 75 DPI, then 1800 or 1900 pixels is ideal.

But if you are rendering fora posting on your web site, then 600, 800, or 900 is ideal.

I would like to encourage users to render at 600 or 900 pixel resolution and with just 20 or so passes, until they are get the lights and materials right, and then to render at the desired resolution and passes for the final image. What are your thoughts?

Also, a note on the setup dialog probably wouldn't help much either.
(My personal opinion is that not many people reed the documentation or read the notes on dialogs)

However, we do get a lot of new people who think that we cannot render high-resolution images because thay do not see the image size option...