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Re: Big project has many problems
Another (performace)-problems...
First... Imported Sketchup-opaque stuff is not opaque. It's fully transparent or untransparent.
Second... The 3D preview is terrible slow on moving the camera position by mouse. If I edit the position of the camera by the camera icon, it's fast (normal). Also areal view is fast (normal).
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Re: Big project has many problems
Please post an URL to the page of the Google Warehouse model that caused this problem.
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Can this problem be verfied, or is it my mistake?
It's not your mistake, it's mine. Said an other way it's a bug. I fixed it in the beta version of the upcoming version 3.2 (it requires you install Java). This modification in the photo rendering might change how transparent models are rendered in existing homes, but from the numerous tests I made, I'm confident the colors and the shadow of transparent models are much more accurate than in version 3.0 and 3.1.
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Hmm, I cannot manage the online version to use more than 750mb Ram, so I cannot load my complete project, but only the glass-table seems to be perfect rendered. So I wait for the 3.2 release.
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Sebastien,
When you inspect the texture directory of your model, you will see that the image is in the JPG format. JPGs cannot be transparent. When inspecting the DAE file, you will see there are some lines where transparency is declared. My guess is that the preview generated inside SH3D can handle that trick, but the picture generated outside SH3D (Sunflow render engine) cannot handle that trick.
You might try to convert the image to GIF or PNG format and add transparency. You will then probably lose transparency in the preview, and obtain it in the rendering.
Make sure that you also change the DAE file: use a text editor to change the reference to the picture from JPG to PGN or GIF.
I played a bit with the image and was successful importing the table with PNG and GIF textures. Both show the table top transparent in the preview window, but don't render correctly with Sunflow. As I have discovered earlier, transparency works in SH3D, but it's not as straightforward as you may wish.
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