# Material shimmer **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** enscape-sketchup\ **Created:** [November 18, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132 "2018-11-18T23:47:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JSC](https://forums.chaos.com/u/JSC)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/1 "2018-11-18T23:47:37Z")
I’m a new Enscape user so I’m not sure if the effect I am seeing is normal or not. My system is: Sketchup 2018, Enscape 2.4.1.2, Boxx laptop; Windows 10, NVIDIA Geforce 1080 GTX 8GB, Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7Ghz, 32GB DDR4 ram. When in a model, walk mode, using the left mouse button to look around, when I settle on a view, the materials shimmer and then slowly settle down and stop “moving”. I’m not sure if this is because I’m doing something wrong, or is a normal effect, or if my computer is struggling. Render quality is set to “high” but I get the same shimmer when set at “medium”. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. John ---
**Author:** ![Demian\_Gutberlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/demian_gutberlet/32/5_2.png) [@Demian\_Gutberlet](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Demian_Gutberlet)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/2 "2018-11-19T11:09:33Z")
Hey @JSC , thank you for your post and welcome to our forum. 🙂 To give you a faithful response whether this is normal or an issue with Enscape, is there any chance you could send us a short video showing this behavior? 🙂 That would be very helpful. You can, for example, use [OBS](https://obsproject.com/) to record your screen and [WeTransfer](https://wetransfer.com/) to upload the created video afterward. Alternatively, you may also just send in a few screenshots instead, showing the shimmering and a further one when the materials stopped “moving”. ---
**Author:** ![JSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JSC](https://forums.chaos.com/u/JSC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/3 "2018-11-19T14:05:11Z")
Hello Demian, Thank you for try reply. I will try the OSB recorder and send you a video. It might take me a bit to figure it out - I’m not the best at this sort of thing. From my description of my PC hardware, do you think my computer is adequate? John ---
**Author:** ![Demian\_Gutberlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/demian_gutberlet/32/5_2.png) [@Demian\_Gutberlet](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Demian_Gutberlet)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/4 "2018-11-19T14:24:02Z")
Hey @JSC , thanks a ton for your cooperation. In case you’re having a bit of trouble with the OBS recorder, gladly just send me a few screenshots instead. 🙂 Your PC is actually more than adequate! The GTX 1080 is a great GPU to be used with Enscape, so that shouldn’t be the cause for any _potential_ problems like this. ---
**Author:** ![JSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JSC](https://forums.chaos.com/u/JSC)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/5 "2018-11-19T21:47:48Z")
Hi Demian, Thank you for your help. I made two short videos and have put them in a Dropbox folder, link below. The effect I see is when the movement stops, there is a final “settling” and maybe that is normal. It doesn’t seem like much but when walking through a model with a client it does that every time we pause to look around. Maybe its perfectly normal and I’m ok with that - I just wasn’t sure if I should be doing something different. [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/anmtweuv46ogvp0/AAAnGauy3kp4iSSkMg\_waya8a?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/anmtweuv46ogvp0/AAAnGauy3kp4iSSkMg_waya8a?dl=0) ---
**Author:** ![Demian\_Gutberlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/demian_gutberlet/32/5_2.png) [@Demian\_Gutberlet](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Demian_Gutberlet)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/6 "2018-11-20T08:43:53Z")
Hey @JSC , thank you so much for the videos. 🙂 You can be assured that this is indeed a normal behavior which is caused by the fact that we’ll apply some refinement once you’re standing still. If you have any further questions, kindly let me know and thanks a lot again for your cooperation! ---
**Author:** ![vjaramillo\_cg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/vjaramillo_cg/32/186920_2.png) [@vjaramillo\_cg](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vjaramillo_cg)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/material-shimmer/165132/7 "2018-11-21T18:33:15Z")
Yep…it’s resing up to final quality. Totally normal.