I have been a user since the beta and have not upgraded to a newer more expensive version (I'm a poor man, but it works just fine anyway). I recently installed Sketchup Make and don't have my old hat plugin (before there was an official one). Is there any way to make this work now without buying one?

Phenomenal! If you were going for realistic, you have achieved it....but.....more people!!!!! Especially if a government building, you don't want to make it appear as though your building is not "for the people" if you catch my drift.

Parallel Projection? I need to do a site render and I do not want to have it a line drawing..... I've rendered it with other renderers, but they seems to not be working and I want the quality to be consistent. Is this possible in Octane?

tim, I just came across the same issue. It dealt with faces within groups, and often groups within groups. To solve it, I never tried fixing, I just exploded the group and then regrouped. One of my groups has almost a million faces and that took FOREVER to do. I need faster ram!!

Wow, thank you! I will have to work with this and figure it out. I am so ignorant on everything and can't make sense of it.... little sleep, deadline this friday ugh. I've put trying to get this file to work the way it should aside and am doing it the hard way lol for now.

Still Issues

>>>>Sketchup>add Scene 1>add Scene 2>Save>>>>Set view to Scene 1>export to octane, *Scene 1 checked, resolution checked, default file name
>>>>Octane>adjust materials>render>save image> save .ocs>close octane (works phenominally)
>>>>Skethcup>Set view to Scene 2>export to octane ...

Just read your other post on this issue. Very thourough. Thank you. The camera check box is selected. I'll play around with it some more and come back forsome more help if needed.

Thank you for the reply, but the concern is how to keep the scene change, not material change. My model is staying the same in sketchup primarily, but the "scene" from sketchup is changing for the export. The import into the ocs file updates the obj, but the "scene" stays the old way. For instance ...

I agree with above. I was actually just on here finding out how to do cut sections as it is in my opinion unbelievably important to have section perspectives and therefore, renderable. The only workaround I have found is to explode my model, make a plane (rectangle) group it to not interfere while ...

I tried reading up on the mix materials and have toyed around with it with what little time I have in between renders for a deadline and can't seem to get sandblasted glass.... Noone quite answered the initial question.