Rendering Tip - Speckled Lines at edges of walls.

This month in the Render Plus Forum an IRender Nxt user posted a question about a common problem—in his rendering he was getting white speckled lines around the edges of walls and the ceiling.

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After examining his model, we discovered he had walls made of a single face, rather than thick walls, with dimension. Single face walls can work but they often leak light through the corners where two walls meet.

If you have light leaking through, then stretch out the walls to make them thick, or add additional faces behind them.

If the geometry is rectangular and perpendicular, there is usually not a problem. But if any of it is at an angle, then light can slip through.

Here is another rendering of the model after adding faces behind the walls and above the ceiling.

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• See original thread on our Help Desk. 
• See tips for other  Common Rendering Questions

Creating Better Renderings for Client Presentations

Webinar

Creating Better Renderings for Client Presentations
Wednesday, September 5th, 11AM PDT

What it's About

The webinar will teach you how to use SketchUp and IRender nXt to produce photorealistic renderings from 3D designs. Learn the work flow for creating a full set of interior and exterior, daytime and night-time renderings of 3D designs for client presentations. We will start with basic rendering settings and lights, then move on to advanced concepts such as using lighting channels to balance light sources and create dynamic, well-lit scenes.

The webinar is free and will last about about 1 hour, including the Q & A session.

Who Should Attend

The Webinar will be geared to beginning users, particularly architects and builders, who want to design with SketchUp and create photorealistic renderings for better client presentations.

Who is Presenting

Al Hart, of Render Plus Systems, has been developing and interfacing rendering software on PCs for more than 20 years. Al has been a long time advocate of SketchUp and contributor to the SketchUp design community.

Registration

Webinar is free but space is limited. Reserve your webinar seat now

Kitchen Design with the help of SketchUp

Mozaik Software is releasing their new Kitchen Design package which uses SketchUp and ArielVision for its 3D presentations of Kitchen Designs.

 

www.mozaiksoftware.com

Kitchen Design rendered with ArielVision

Check them out at the IFW show August 22-25, 2012 in Atlanta

New Lights Query & Edit Wizard

Rich has added a new Query and Edit Lights in Model Wizard to IRender nXt. Try it out and let us know what you think...

The Lights Query & Edit Wizard makes it easy to find, examine, and edit the artificial lights you have placed in your SketchUp Model for rendering with IRender nXt
This new dialog, available from the Query and Edit Lights in Model button on the Lights Tab of the IRender nXt Options Wizard, is a work in progress. We'll be adding new capabilities to it and making it easier to use to locate and edit lights in the model. Let us know if there is something else that we could do here to make light editing easier for you.

See:  Lights Query & Edit Wizard

BiMUp 5d - BIM and Reporting for SketchUp.

We at Render Plus are proud to have been chosen as the developer for the new BiMUp 5D for SketchUp product.

What is BiMUp 5D? 

BiMUp Ltd’s first product is called BiMUp 5D which directly relates to the day-to-day use of BiM. It is simple, but quite remarkable, software that enables quantities to be taken off any SketchUp model.

It is the crucial ‘missing part of the jigsaw’ that enables BiM using SketchUp to become a reality.

It means that cost-modelling can be auto-generated from the earliest design models and that each time there is a change, the spreadsheets are also updated automatically.


Read more... BiMUp 5D