Visualizer - How to Install for SketchUp 2016

[SketchUp3D_de]

@hueman

Anyone know why it got discontinued anyway?

probably difficult to live from such a cheapy:

@Visualizer Blog Archive : Final Release and Thanks for All the Fish

Visualizer 1.3 is the product we aimed to create, using Imagination’s lightning-fast ray-tracing technology. We’ve put it all into the product and we hope you find it to be the revolutionary experience we intended. We’re now continuing the crusade by extending the reach of our core tech to vistas beyond SketchUp, and 1.3 will be the last version of Visualizer as you know it. We can’t say exactly what the future holds, but the team is shifting towards it and you can expect even more amazing tools from our team - in ways we think will thrill you - in the future.

http://www.getvisualizer.com/blog/

[Runninghead]

Thanks, sketch3d_de, that’s great, especially for the price

But if anyone know a renderer more like Vizualiser (keeping a live fast render window open above the model workspace) that would be ideal.

Thanks

[SketchUp3D_de]

@Runninghead

…a renderer more like Vizualiser…

easy but not for free: AmbientOcclusion or Render[in]

[Runninghead]

Thanks sketch3d_de, I’ve got proper rendering software elsewhere so really just needed a free live render window, though $89 is very reasonable for basic renders.

btw: I noticed Twilight 2 Render you linked to (https://www.twilightrender.com/)
was incredibly slow to render, and my machine’s not that slow, so I guess it’s probably a settings/version number thing (I was using Easy 9 preset).

I’m going to try getting Vizualiser for Mac OS SketchUp Pro 2017 working somehow, again.

[SketchUp3D_de]

@Runninghead

I’m going to try getting … working somehow…

in a commercial surrounding shelling out some bucks (see above) is often more productive then fiddling around for hours… additionally getting a software maintained further (e.g. for SU v2018 end of this year).

[john_drivenupthewall]

@Runninghead

I’m going to try getting Vizualiser for Mac OS SketchUp Pro 2017 working somehow, again.

it’s not going to happen without a large investment of time and money…

due to the changes in Ruby versions, Visualizer needs to be completely recompiled from ‘source’…

I keep a copy of SU v16 with Visualizer for occasional use…

john

[Runninghead]

That’s good info john, thanks. I’d considered having a go at the ruby myself but now I’ll just look for another option.