Nomeradona SketchUp VR

APP Development

2024-09-08T23:46:00.000-07:00

I satrted to develop apps. Thís a visual theme explorer where user explores the theme and visual symbolism will populate in Zentangles and line art style. Try it by clicking the direction below.

Presenting Augmented Reality and SketchUp

2014-01-24T23:46:00.000-08:00

Last year's EARCOS Conference in Shanghai, China, I presented to different international teachers the many different possibilities of using SketchUp inside the classroom. SketchUp is becoming very popular in educational field, not just a learning tool but also a teaching resource. This February, I will be presenting a quick demonstration on augmented reality using AR Media and SketchUp in Hanoi Vietnam. I will share on how I use it in my classroom.

News: Chaos Group Released VRAY 2.0 for SketchUp

2013-09-18T21:56:00.003-07:00

Chaos Group Ships V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp

25 New Features Target Speed, Lighting and Visualization Quality; 64-Bit Rendering, V-Ray RT for CPU and GPU, Plus Support for SketchUp 2013 Now Available

Sofia, Bulgaria – 16 September 2013 – With today’s launch of Chaos Group’s V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp, the access designers have to faster rendering, better lighting tools, and more detail in complex scenes has reached new heights. It’s the biggest expansion to V-Ray for SketchUp’s rendering capabilities yet, and it’s all thanks to the help of a vast and very dedicated group of beta testers.

This artist-friendly rendering solution for SketchUp features dramatic improvements to visualization workflow (V-Ray RT®), image-based lighting quality (V-Ray Dome Light), and a designer’s ability to quickly manage complex scenes with highly detailed models (V-Ray Proxy).

“This is by far the most exciting and influential release of V-Ray for SketchUp we have ever had. High quality visualization is now easier than ever, making V-Ray even more of an everyday tool for designers", said Corey Rubadue, Product Manager at Chaos Group.

“V-Ray is the best rendering engine for SketchUp on the market today,” said Matthew Valero, Founder at Valero Studio. “High polygon proxies, RT rendering, and incredible accuracy at rapid speeds - simply amazing. It’s the one SketchUp plug-in I could never live without.”

Since they were first revealed in beta form, V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp’s banner features were met with much excitement in the V-Ray community. After receiving excellent feedback from beta testers, Chaos Group was able to turn what was initially supposed to be an incremental release into a major one.

The introduction of GPU support for V-Ray RT provides faster rendering and real time interactions with speed improvements up to 30 times faster. With 64-bit rendering, 3D artists can tap their 64-bit render farm for more processing power with added flexibility to render larger scene sizes, images, and animations in SketchUp. The ability to produce animation for SketchUp projects has also been streamlined, ensuring a cleaner and easier creation process.

For the full list of features, click here.

"We use V-Ray for SketchUp as a base for every illustration that leaves this studio," said Jeremy Kay, Owner at StudioJDK. “Its remarkably fast rendering speeds, customization abilities and beautiful output never let you down or doubt why it’s our industry’s leading rendering software solution.”

Chaos Group has also prepared a long list of dedicated resources that will help new V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp users. Those materials include: help documentation, a dedicated forum, and a dedicated product page.

Pricing and Availability

V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp is now available for SketchUp 8, SketchUp Make 2013 and SketchUp Pro 2013 on both Windows and OS X platforms. To provide optimum security, reliability, and portability Chaos Group requires a hardware key to license its software. V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp customers will have the option to purchase a new hardware key or install the license on an existing one. Registered users have access to a free demo through the V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp product page.

Pricing for V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp will remain unchanged at $800. The upgrade price from V-Ray 1.49 for SketchUp or lower is $320. Users who purchased V-Ray for SketchUp between 15 April 2013 and 16 September 2013 will be eligible for a free upgrade.

V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp can be purchased through Chaos Group’s local resellers.

I will be reviewing this Software soon..

Nomer Adona

Mini the making of H Hauz by J Trenonce

2013-08-27T01:16:00.000-07:00

Here is the Mini-the-Making (MTM) tutorial of Jephte Trenonce wiht his winning entry in our recent VRAY Sketchup 1.6 Beta rendering challenge.

Due to copyrights reserve, the slides pdf is not downloadable.

VRAY Sketchup Beta 1.6 Rendering Challenge Winners

2013-07-24T05:56:00.000-07:00

SketchUp Vray Resources, Sketchup Vray Artists Facebook Group, and SketchUp Texture would like to thank all the participants in this particular challenge. A big thank you to Chaos Group for sponsoring three licenses to out top three winners. Finally, we would like to thank Fernando Rentas of Chaos Group, Pete Stopple of Solo place and Sketchucation.com, Onel Pabico of SketchUp VRAY Artists, Rosanna Mataloni of SketchUp Texture, Nomer Adona of SketchUp VRAY Resources and Arch. Omar Estevez as our jurors for this challenge.

The winners for this rendering challenge are:

First Place: Jephte Tongco Trenonce

Second Place: Dhavid Ben Amora Trinidad

Third Place: Jonathan Mission Taculod

We would like to special mention entries who are in the top 10: Syafizzal Shahruddin, Luis Carlos Mendez Roa, Suresh Tamang , Zernan Suarez, Luis Carlos Mendez Roa, Tyrone Diesca and Roquemar Beltran.

Understanding the Multi-sub material in VRAY PROXY

2013-07-16T00:30:00.000-07:00

I am still in the process of writing our next tutorials with VRAYSU 1.6 Here is one of them. Multi Sub Material

VRAYSU1.6 BEta Challenge Entries

2013-07-15T20:54:00.000-07:00

Here is the album of all the VRAYSU1.6 Beta Challenge Entries.

Grass workflow and VRAY Proxy by David Brufau

2013-06-29T21:13:00.000-07:00

This latest tutorial comes from David Brufau aka dBrenders. In this tutorial David shows his workflow from modeling, texturing and scattering using SketchUp. Finally using the latest VRay Beta 1.6, David shows the power of the new proxy feature.

Su proxy grass by David Brufau from Nomer Adona

Here is the diffuse texture

You can also download the following files courtesy of David Brufau.

VRAY Mesh simple
Vray Mesh complex
SketchUp File, use the latest SketchUp Version

VRAY FOR SKETCHUP BETA 1.6 Rendering Challenge

2013-06-08T06:03:00.001-07:00

Rendering Challenge

This is a new rendering challenge using VRAY for SketchUp Beta 1.6. In this challenge you will explore the new features of VRAY SketchUp Beta 1.6 such as proxy, dome light, lens flare, use of new shaders and procedural textures, RT etc. You will attach work in progress (WIP) screen grabs together with your final rendering entry.

There is no specified scene in this rendering challenge, because you can send any render scene using VFSU Beta 1.6. This challenge will run from 9th of June and will end on the 15th of July 2013. SVA, ST and SVR administration will select 10 best entries and the 10 best entries with most likes in the SVA FOLDER, SketchUp Texture FOLDER and 3D Challenge FOLDER consecutively will automatically qualified in the final 30 entries. These final 30 entries will be judged by prestigious juries and will select and declare the top three winning entries using the below criteria.

The criteria for judging includes:

Rendering scene realism......................................................30%

Use of new features of VRAY SketchUp Beta 1.6...............20%

Creativity.............................................................................20%

Complexity of the Scene......................................................20%

Overall Impact....................................................................10%

Where to download the Beta

Download the VRAY for SketchUp Beta 1.6 HERE

PRIZE:

The three top images will receive VRAY SketchUP 1.6 License courtesy of CHAOS GROUP.

Conditions:

Upon joining this challenge, you agree that your rendering scene might be use by SVR and Chaos Group for marketing purposes. The top three winners will also create Mini the Making tutorial showing scene set up, sample materials, how the new feature of VRAY SketchUp Beta 1.6 were used, rendering options and post processing if any.

New Vray Sketchup 1.6 Video Tutorials

2013-05-21T20:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the video tutorials for the new beta Vray SketchUp 1.6 VRAY Dome Light VRAY Proxy VRAY RT (Real Time)

Press Release from Chaos Group.. The New Open Beta VRAY SketchUp 1.6

2013-05-19T20:38:00.000-07:00

V ray for-sketchup_1.6_open_beta.doc from Nomer Adona

MTM Elder Cavalcantti's Sushi Bar

2013-05-03T19:34:00.002-07:00

Thanks Elder for this Sushi Bar "Mini the Making".

Due to copyright issues, Elder requested the downloading of the PDF be disabled.

MTM Here

Mtm elder cavalcantti2 from Nomer Adona

MTM Series 2013 No.1 Night Scene of Simple House

2013-02-15T01:59:00.001-08:00

Here is our first MTM entry this year 2013 coming from Mark Anthony Muncada. Thank you Anthony for this one.

Visopt Series 2013_Natz Arguellez

2013-02-04T18:06:00.000-08:00

The level of contrast in the exterior is excellent in this visopt by Natz Arguellez. Donwload it HERE.

Thank You Natz for providing us this visopt.

Visopt Series by Leo Valenzuela

2013-02-02T01:29:00.000-08:00

Here is our next Visopt courtesy of Leo Valenzuela. Download it HERE.

SVA-SVR Rendering Challenge

2013-02-01T00:05:00.001-08:00

Here is our first rendering challenge for 2013. The model is modeled by Wisam Ghannoum. Thanks Wissam for this model. Download this model HERE.

Water pool and Caustics Tutorial

2013-01-27T21:13:00.001-08:00

First of all big thanks to Deo Saputra for sharing to us the materials on this tutorial.There are very few tutorials when it comes to caustics and we believe you will really get from this one.. Enjoy reading it.

1. important Set Up Global Illumination Environment: Use Text Sky Map with the following settings

Photon Radius: Used to control the caustics' radius. This value depends on the size of the scene.
Caustics Subdivision: This parameter controls the amount of photons that VRAY traces to estimate caustics. Large numbers means better quality but more memory needed, thus slowing down the calculation process.

2. Caustics Parameters

Maximum Photons: This is the maximum number of photons that will be considered when rendering the caustics effect on a surface. Smaller values cause less photons to be used and the caustics will be sharper, but perhaps noisier. Larger values produce smoother, but blurrier caustics. The special value of 0 means that V-Ray will use all the photons that it can find inside the search area.
Multiplier: this allows you to control the brightness of the photon map
Search distance. It allows you to specify the photon search distance manually. * Keep in mind that this value depends on the size of your scene. Lower values will speed up the rendering but may produce more noisy results. Larger values will slow down the rendering but may produce smoother results.

3. The Water Material

Reflection Layer

IOR value

Diffuse Layer

Refraction Layer

Fog Color

Displacement Map

You can download the Vismat together with the Texture HERE

Vray Options

Here is the Final Render using the material.

Tip: Be sure that the face of the water is not negative face. You might also want to apply the material on both side of your water surface.

How to Series No.3_ Loading and Packing Vismats

2013-01-26T08:33:00.001-08:00

Here is my How to series entry No.3 which will show how to pack and load the vismat file. Vismat is the root file use by VRAY SketchUp with materials.

Part 1: Packing the Vismat material.

Packing is the word use when you want to save the vismat file and want to share it with others or just for reusing it in the other files. Here is how... Let me share you this mug scene in SketchUp. In this scene I created three different materials and they are already applied in the mugs. The materials are the same materials on the rendered image above.

To pack the material, all you have to do is to open the material editor. Select the VRAY Material. In the image below the "Metal Flake" material was selected.

Then right click mouse. Select "Pack Material"

Now you can specify the name and file type. I love to zip it when I am sharing it with others.

Here is the Zip File it has two files: the vismat and the texture I used in the file.

Part 2: Loading the Vismat File.

This is pretty easy. All you have to do is to go to the material editor, right click mouse and choose load material.

Browse the location of the material you want to load. Click Open.

The material will be added to your material editor and usually it will appear at the bottom.

You can apply now this material to the scene. One piece of advise, use the SketchUp Paint bucket tool to apply this material. It is faster..

One of the good thing to know is that once the material is chosen in the material editor, this material is automatically chosen in SketchUp too. Therefore you can use the paint bucket tool with ease.

DO NOT USE the apply material selection tool in VRAY it's very slow comparing to the paint bucket tool in SketchUp.

Here the material is applied to the selection using the paint bucket tool.

Visopt Series 2013 No.2

2013-01-23T18:38:00.000-08:00

See this visopt shared by John Erick Bernal with this exterior render. Thanks John for sharing your visopt which is our second entry with this year 2013. Download HERE.

How to Series No.2_Loading Visopt Files

2013-01-18T22:29:00.000-08:00

Here is our How to Series entry No.2: How to load Visopt by yours truly, Nomeradona.

Tutorial: Adding color to Native SU texture in Vray SketchUp

2013-01-16T21:41:00.001-08:00

Introduction: The way Sketchup edits the color of its native texture and the way VRAY SU work is different. Editing the color of the native SU material inside SU does not guarantee that VRAY SU recognizes it. VRAY SU will still use the original bitmap material use by SketchUp.

Here is an explanation from Onel Pabico on workaround how you want to do it in VRAY SU.

Tutorial: Modeling simple drainage

2013-01-16T21:30:00.002-08:00

Here is a simple modeling simple drainage tutorial from Chen Menes. Thanks Chen for this one.

Visopt Series 2013_ N0.1

2013-01-15T04:01:00.001-08:00

Here is our first Visopt for 2013 courtesy of Vhick Acejo Morante. Thank you Vhick for this quality visopt. Download the Visopt file HERE.

SketchUp in Education

2012-12-30T19:35:00.000-08:00

Trimble SketchUp knows the importance of SketchUp in Education.
HERE is their main LINK for educators.

SketchUp in Education Series #2 _Embedding Links

2012-12-30T19:11:00.000-08:00

This is one of the fun thing I do in art education. It's time consuming yet once you have your initial room gallery you can recycle it and use it in other lessons.

I love to surprise my students with our activities such as compare and contrasting artists, art movement studies, and art appreciation. One idea I did was I developed a virtual gallery in SketchUp, then borrowed some painting frames from the 3d Warehouse, edited and changed the paintings based on the topics that we want to look at in our lessons. I then embed links in the actual paintings components. Thanks to "Links" script by D.Bur which you can download from Ruby Library Depot HERE.

Let me share how did I do it.

Part 1: Installing an additional script or plugin

Scripts or plugins are small tools that you can install in your SketchUp. They can further extend its capability and efficiency. Here I will show you how you can install this "links.rb" script made by D.Bur. This script has the ability to embed link from your school network, your personal computer or the internet.

Step1: Download the "Link" Script by D.Bur

links.rb saved in my desktop

Step 2: Pasting the link to the SketchUp Folder.

You can either copy or cut the link.rb file that was downloaded.

and paste it in the Sketchup Program Plugin root folder.

See it's very easy to add scripts in SketchUp.

Part 2: Modeling a virtual gallery room.

To create a virtual gallery room in SketchUp, I will give you a head start. Of course it's better if you have already experience with it. But if you have minimal or no experience at all, let me guide you with this simple modeling and could be useful in helping your students.

Step 1: Draw rectangle floor

Step 2. Adding height

Step 3: Enter the interior

Step 4. Adding painting component with frame.

Step 5. Edit the image inside the art frame component

Step 6. Renaming and pasting the new material (painting)

Step 7. Correcting the image applied in the face

Painting material applied.

This is a simplified way but you can always model a much better interior as you increase your skills in modeling using SketchUp.

PART 3: Embedding link inside the component

As an educator I always want my student to engage themselves in the lessons and find creative ways in doing it. I believe, when there is continuous curiosity and excitement, engagement is inevitable. When students are engage, facilitating learning is easier.

Even in the SketchUp community, many people are not aware that we can embed documents, files, html hyper texts, etc to any face, object or component in SketchUp. For me this is the fun and exciting part. In this next tutorial, I will embed hypertext links inside the paintings in my SketchUp Virtual Gallery. This time I will be using a much better modeled scene.

Images below shows a display of art work from surreal artists " Rene Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali< Di Chirico, Matta, Tanguy etc. It's a room created for my International Baccalaureate students who needs to analyze, compare and contrast various "surrealist artists". This model was given to then and they opened it in SketchUp. They navigated the scene and look at each painting. For me this is more exciting if this image is use in Augmented Reality in which you can use SketchUp. Another alternative that I do is creting a Virtual 720 degree scene that can be explored by each student. In anycase, with little modeling on how to navigate the scene in SketchUp, providing the skp. file is enough.