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Gallery / Re: Tolgahan-Corona(avisgrafik)
« on: 2015-04-30, 16:16:24 »
aRGH... MY EYES... they hurt from the reality. These photos make me pine for a glass of that sweet orange liquid!
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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Grate workz!!! Congratz!!!!
« on: 2015-04-30, 07:04:23 »
great workz! good post! love your signature rawavalanche.... it sounds like "I loved corona when it was free"...
aside from that little note, I am a self declared corona junkie. everytime we search for corona, some beer comes up.
aside from that little note, I am a self declared corona junkie. everytime we search for corona, some beer comes up.
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Work in Progress/Tests / Re: Remembering my younger days
« on: 2015-04-27, 15:01:28 »
interesting! Is everything rendered or some items are photos? those lamposts are not dirty or intergrated enough to be part of the scene...
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Gallery / Re: LISBON HOTEL
« on: 2015-04-22, 18:28:21 »
wow... this is really nice, is the going to be a real project?
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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?
« on: 2015-04-18, 06:34:54 »
WOW! :):):):)
sorry to sound like a kid in a candy store... but you just made my weekend, week, month, year!
sorry to sound like a kid in a candy store... but you just made my weekend, week, month, year!
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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?
« on: 2015-04-16, 18:19:28 »
OMG Ondra, I DESPERATELY need Corona on Sketchup...
Is there anyway to speed this development up? Could we go the crowdfunding model? I would be immediately your first paying backer! that's a promise!
It is a pain to work in blender.
It is a pain and costly to work in 3dmax
For all the Sketchup doubters... sketchup produces these :
Is there anyway to speed this development up? Could we go the crowdfunding model? I would be immediately your first paying backer! that's a promise!
It is a pain to work in blender.
It is a pain and costly to work in 3dmax
For all the Sketchup doubters... sketchup produces these :
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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?
« on: 2015-04-10, 12:56:27 »Typical Sketchup user doesn't have patience for Vray, nor performance for Maxwell (or some more obscure older pathtracers that still linger as legacy).
You've described me to the TEE! :D :D :D
I just paid for the upgrade to the latest version of Podium... It's much faster now in terms of processing the model (converting the sketchup meshes into its own format) because they upgraded their code base from Ruby to C++ hence the speed increases. Wonderful... but not wonderful enough :( I still dream of producing a Corona render one day!
I am FASCINATED though by this new functional programming language called Haskell. www.haskell.org
It's specialty is that it is LAZY... sounds brilliant.
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Gallery / Re: Small house in Finland
« on: 2015-04-10, 09:03:30 »
Ouch my eyes! It looks more real than real life! Probably needs a few dead leaves here and there, and we're less real.
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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?
« on: 2015-04-09, 21:19:38 »I cannot wait to have Corona power on OSX platform, no matter of application.
this would be called Macorona and Cheese :D
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Porting and API / Re: Corona for Sketchup Discussion
« on: 2015-04-03, 18:23:41 »
Great to hear that you look positively at the thought of potentially developing it Ondra. As mentioned, I for one, am willing to pay for it after seeing some video demos of the process and results. I know I am only seemingly one of them - but there are many others like me. I have personally purchased both Sketchup Pro (USD$800) and Sketchup Podium which cost me USD $198. I have also spread the word to friends who made subsequent purchases, and influenced my last 2 architectural studios purchase the Podium Plugin separately.
This simple fact alone, and aside from the countless companies I know that have bought Vray for Sketchup and tried to use it to the best they can with limited success and lots of post editing or giving up and giving it to professional rendering studios for the professional shine.
You have to understand the Sketchup platform - there IS NO inherent renderer in it, which gives any photo-realistic rendering engine maker a huge incentive to market their add-on / plug-in through. I have tried almost everyone of them, and the closest to hitting the mark (but still way off) is Podium - you have that edge both over Vray (slow, and horrible complex settings using geek jargon, not English) and Podium (superb interface, speed, and so-so quality), the other is Thea Render (slow and cumbersome interface). I believe Corona will knock over all of them flat-out and the take up will be swift.
This and as well as the changing market. Now a lot of work is self initiated and driven... the once high entry levels for artistic creations through computer apps had been once high but because of programs like Sketchup (ease of learning) and Blender (free but terribly difficult to use), the bar has come down. We are going into the new trend of AI driven websites that design themselves like www.thegrid.io, design your own websites like www.wix.com, and so forth.
Vray's creators are simply resting on their laurels by not furthering their product to become simpler to use, and the folks that used to champion their cause are now coming over to you, which I am enthused to become a part of, because you are one of the rare few developers that believe in the tenets of simplicity and ease of use in plain English while limiting parameters (so that stupid things don't happen in the renders whether out of context {way too dark or way too bright} or speed degradation because a wrong radio button was checked). Less is truly more.
ALSO, it seems ODD that on your website the main images show architecturally related imagery... and Sketchup IS mainly used by architects and interior designers... about 80-90% I believe, so there is another advantage to develop this as they ONLY want photorealism and are unable to settle for anything less nowadays, hence the need for so many studios built around architectural and interior work (I may be lynched by the studios for mentioning this).
Just remember that all you need is 0.1% out of that 30 million users, and you will have 30,000 users, which is not bad for profit in my opinion. Thanks for reading some of these points, and have a great weekend.
This simple fact alone, and aside from the countless companies I know that have bought Vray for Sketchup and tried to use it to the best they can with limited success and lots of post editing or giving up and giving it to professional rendering studios for the professional shine.
You have to understand the Sketchup platform - there IS NO inherent renderer in it, which gives any photo-realistic rendering engine maker a huge incentive to market their add-on / plug-in through. I have tried almost everyone of them, and the closest to hitting the mark (but still way off) is Podium - you have that edge both over Vray (slow, and horrible complex settings using geek jargon, not English) and Podium (superb interface, speed, and so-so quality), the other is Thea Render (slow and cumbersome interface). I believe Corona will knock over all of them flat-out and the take up will be swift.
This and as well as the changing market. Now a lot of work is self initiated and driven... the once high entry levels for artistic creations through computer apps had been once high but because of programs like Sketchup (ease of learning) and Blender (free but terribly difficult to use), the bar has come down. We are going into the new trend of AI driven websites that design themselves like www.thegrid.io, design your own websites like www.wix.com, and so forth.
Vray's creators are simply resting on their laurels by not furthering their product to become simpler to use, and the folks that used to champion their cause are now coming over to you, which I am enthused to become a part of, because you are one of the rare few developers that believe in the tenets of simplicity and ease of use in plain English while limiting parameters (so that stupid things don't happen in the renders whether out of context {way too dark or way too bright} or speed degradation because a wrong radio button was checked). Less is truly more.
ALSO, it seems ODD that on your website the main images show architecturally related imagery... and Sketchup IS mainly used by architects and interior designers... about 80-90% I believe, so there is another advantage to develop this as they ONLY want photorealism and are unable to settle for anything less nowadays, hence the need for so many studios built around architectural and interior work (I may be lynched by the studios for mentioning this).
Just remember that all you need is 0.1% out of that 30 million users, and you will have 30,000 users, which is not bad for profit in my opinion. Thanks for reading some of these points, and have a great weekend.
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Porting and API / Re: Corona for Sketchup Discussion
« on: 2015-04-03, 14:02:41 »
tell me there there isn't a large active user market, I will prove you wrong... this link below says this :
"There have been more than 30 million unique activations of SketchUp in the last year, with more than 2.5M of them active on a weekly basis. Every second SketchUp is launched by 30 people around the world."
https://extensions.sketchup.com/developer
I am not sure which year they are referring to in terms of user adoption, but I believe like Apple, things work exponentially, because the entry price point into the market and learning curve isn't as high as 3d studio max or Maya, all of which are owned by the beast of a corporation with complexity in mind.
the only thing why your poll is skewed is because you are posting your poll primarily on your website which only caters to a very specific interest group that has had prior knowledge of 3D rendering engines. Try this on a forum like www.sketchucation.com and see the response you will get - and yet Sketchucation is only a small segment of the overall Sketchup market catering to the more advanced users, which can become your best evangelists. As of now, there are about 350,000 members in sketchucation alone.
I sincerely hope you do seriously consider Sketchup as a potential source of development for Corona.
"There have been more than 30 million unique activations of SketchUp in the last year, with more than 2.5M of them active on a weekly basis. Every second SketchUp is launched by 30 people around the world."
https://extensions.sketchup.com/developer
I am not sure which year they are referring to in terms of user adoption, but I believe like Apple, things work exponentially, because the entry price point into the market and learning curve isn't as high as 3d studio max or Maya, all of which are owned by the beast of a corporation with complexity in mind.
the only thing why your poll is skewed is because you are posting your poll primarily on your website which only caters to a very specific interest group that has had prior knowledge of 3D rendering engines. Try this on a forum like www.sketchucation.com and see the response you will get - and yet Sketchucation is only a small segment of the overall Sketchup market catering to the more advanced users, which can become your best evangelists. As of now, there are about 350,000 members in sketchucation alone.
I sincerely hope you do seriously consider Sketchup as a potential source of development for Corona.
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[Max] Feature Requests / Re: Which 3D soft to integrate into next?
« on: 2015-04-03, 10:44:53 »Modo already has vray, octane, and pretty good native renderer.
You want half a million users as potential customers? Go with indie appz.
I agree, I still consider sketchup to be an indie app, but a super popular one with no built in renderer. huge market potential... why compete when you can dominate? the biggest drawbacks for me and many users in buying vray for sketchup are the complicated settings, half baked results as a result of incorrect settings and bad material and light integration.... I never get past the trial period because I just stop using it...
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Porting and API / Re: Corona for Sketchup Discussion
« on: 2015-04-03, 10:11:03 »
I totally support this.... look how successful Sketchup podium has become with a huge market share.... they have the the same philosophy as Corona minus the extremely high quality output... which is simplicity and speed. a typical simple render takes around 10 to 45mins depending on model complexity.
Indigo Render is also another to learn from, unfortunately it is 100% unbiased which means it can take more than 24 hrs to push something out.
the simplicity of both SU podium and indigo focuses on 1 click to setup environment settings, 1 click for material palette with emissive shaders, 1 click for ies lights, and 1 click for instancing and scattering. the second click is the render button.
I hope corona renderer will consider the market viability of developing an in app solution for sketchup. i know I will pay vray price for it.... I hate the useless over complication of vray. I am a visual artist by trade not a technical programming guru.
Here is a render I did with Sketchup Podium approximate 20mins to render, another 20mins to post process with photoshop, but as you can see it isn't very good, imagine how much better it could be with Corona Renderer.
Indigo Render is also another to learn from, unfortunately it is 100% unbiased which means it can take more than 24 hrs to push something out.
the simplicity of both SU podium and indigo focuses on 1 click to setup environment settings, 1 click for material palette with emissive shaders, 1 click for ies lights, and 1 click for instancing and scattering. the second click is the render button.
I hope corona renderer will consider the market viability of developing an in app solution for sketchup. i know I will pay vray price for it.... I hate the useless over complication of vray. I am a visual artist by trade not a technical programming guru.
Here is a render I did with Sketchup Podium approximate 20mins to render, another 20mins to post process with photoshop, but as you can see it isn't very good, imagine how much better it could be with Corona Renderer.