Question about the arroway materials?

[proseduction]

How do you use the materials of arroway? when i implement them in my sketchup drawings my drawing becomes like 150 mb. This is because of the jpeg of 9 mb of the materials.

Do you guys decrease the resolution or something? because now i get the memory error when i try to render.

I hope you can help me. Thanx

[ferrosoa_cg]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

How do you use the materials of arroway? when i implement them in my sketchup drawings my drawing becomes like 150 mb. This is because of the jpeg of 9 mb of the materials.

Do you guys decrease the resolution or something? because now i get the memory error when i try to render.

I hope you can help me. Thanx

Yes, you must decrease resolution or quality, by using compress format *.jpg .... (for example 50 MB png ----- about 4 MB jpg). Arroway are extreme resolution textures. Full quality is for close up shot mostly

[thomthom]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

Yes - SketchUp embeds the textures in the SU file. Not good when you use high res for rendering.

The Arroway textures are very large - usually one does not need to use their original resolution. I make smaller version when I need them to meet the need of the model.

Also, I create 512px max textures which I use in SketchUp. I then add a white TexAColor map to the transparency channel of the diffuse layer. (Important to use a TexAColor map as they way the model won't turn transparent in SketchUp viewport.)
Then I add a second diffuse underneath the default one - this one I link to the high-res texture.

Can be a bit awkward, but the steps aren't that much extra work. The benefit is that you have a much more manageable SketchUp model.
And with version 1.48.xx you can reuse materials between models.

[ferrosoa_cg]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

The benefit is that you have a much more manageable SketchUp model.

hmmm ... full arroway textures doesnt limit me in SU model, it make only big file and problems with render because to much for RAM

[thomthom]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

Well - that's some serious limitation IMO. At least the memory problems.
And I find also loading times for models with large textures to be much higher.

[dkendig]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

yeah, don't store high resolution textures in an su file... I absolutely hate that embedding textures in the scene is even an option.

[thomthom]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

Option? No option at all.

[dkendig]

Re: Question about the arroway materials?

true, it's just done without your consent. yuck