Thanks for the replies i'm using sketchup pro so i'm fine for exporting just didn't know which files could be used.

John

i see, any ideas on which p.cs are decent for rendering like ruff ideas on prices and specs i'd be looking for because we need a good rendering p.c in the office as most rendering packages only come in 32 bit for macs and all the computers in the office are mac. We render at about 10000 x 5000 ...

hmmm works with some of my sketchup models but not with others :/

and im running a 9400 nivada with this

not sure how id check that

so i have octane open, and when i open my model i can see the node version, but when i click on the node version to bring up the 3d model version its quits everytime and just says octane has unexpetidly quit, im using a macbook 4gb 1067 mhz ddr3 with a 2.26 ghz interl core duo on the latest version ...

Hi all,

im new to using octane render and just have a quick couple of questions, which file types are supported in octane?

is their any direct exporting tool into octane render from sketchup?

How do you export your sketchup model as the correct file type to then open in octane?

Thank you for ...

woops sorry was supposed to type 5000mmx2500mm, its been a long a day.

John.

Would be possible to split the render, save in HDD. And after all parts have been rendered, join them automatically?

just worried about the lighting and stuff, i mean we've got a few guys at the office who are real good at photoshop so shouldn't be a problem joining em, but the lights diffusion ...

andrian wrote:Sound to me like improper use of resolution, might be wrong though..

Need a 5000m x 2500m image at 150 dpi. i mean i could use something like artlantis.... but ... well less said about artlantis the better.

radiance wrote:Any physically based renderer would need nearly 7 GB of memory to hold a HDR render film of that size.

Radiance

Base system wear using is a brand new quad core 12 gig mac, backed up by 2 dual cores 8 gig macs and one 8 gig macbook pro