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Section cuts

Postby OVA » Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:22 am

OVA Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:22 am
Hi There,

The wonderful tool that Architects love about SketchUp is the ability to do section cuts.
This is a great way to illustrate buildings and architecture in general to the clients and few rendering software are supporting this (as far as I know : Vray and Sketch FX/Ambient occlusion).
It would be such an amazing thing to have that enabled in the Octane Plugin.
To understand What I'm talking about, see the image attached of a simple rendering done with sketch FX with section cuts enabled.

Please, make it happen :)
Thank you,
Slim
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Re: Section cuts

Postby bepeg4d » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:09 am

bepeg4d Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:09 am
Hi,
while waiting for Section Cuts, a workaround is to use the Near Clipping Plane option in the Thin Lens Camera node:
F8E3F3BB-7FCC-4B54-8435-277BC6D84C20.jpeg


If used with Orthographic Camera option, you can obtain the classic section views.

ciao Beppe
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Re: Section cuts

Postby OVA » Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:25 am

OVA Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:25 am
Hi Beppe,

Thank you for your reply!
I knew about this "trick" but sometime one wants to have a section perspective view with specific angles. And Sketchup has the ability to "fill" all those cut materials with a specific hatching or color that makes it very "Architectural" (using Skalp plugin).
That is the real deal :)
I was just wondering if someone at Otoy was working on this...

Thank you.
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Re: Section cuts

Postby bepeg4d » Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:00 am

bepeg4d Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:00 am
Hi Slim,
the new 2021.1 SDK is going to introduce the new Boolean Geometry Shader Clipping Material, that could be used in future for section cuts:
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=76440

Happy GPU rendering,
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Re: Section cuts

Postby OVA » Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:43 am

OVA Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:43 am
Hi Beppe,

I saw this feature in the video before... Cant wait for it!

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