Skatter freeze my SketchUp

kiko · May 31, 2016, 9:20pm

Hi there, I’m using SketchUp 2016 with Twilighs. I’m new to Skatter and one of the issue I have is that when I apply for example grass to a surface and close the skatter window, then I cannot access any groups on my file, I can still rotate the file and design more but all the existing groups are not responding. I thought was the file I was using that maybe was to big or something so I tested and did a new file 5’x5’ square group, added cut grass on it, created a second group, added that to the area to remove part of the grass from the first group and it’s all ok then I closed and opened the skatter window and I have no more access to those groups, the grass is still there but I cannot edit it as I cannot edit any groups.

What am I doing wrong?

P.s I’m on Win7 and skatter v1.1.0

Thanks

kiko · May 31, 2016, 11:01pm

Also can you save what you do? I did another test on a different file, added grass on it then I had to close it to work on something else so I renamed the file but I just open it and no more grass

Thomas · June 2, 2016, 12:05am

When you open the Skatter dialog, is there anything in the “Render List” tab?

kiko · June 2, 2016, 12:55am

A couple of times yes I thought I found my issue but most of the times is empty even if I can still see the grass

Thomas · June 3, 2016, 9:00pm

Please send me an example file where the grass appears in the render but not in the “Render list”
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Thanks

kiko · June 4, 2016, 12:12am

Hi Thomas how big can it be the file? The one I’m using now it’s 80Mb and I just added some png and got stuck in there even if there is nothing on the Render list

Thomas · June 4, 2016, 4:10pm

The file size doesn’t matter. You can use an online storage service to send it to me, like WeTransfer.

kiko · June 4, 2016, 7:08pm

It’s transferring now. Please let me know.

Thanks

Thomas · June 6, 2016, 9:32pm

Hi Kiko,

The objects are actually generated in the model. To edit the groups, right-click on them and click on “Edit Skatter group”.
See this : http://skatter.helpscoutdocs.com/article/70-generating

Also, make sure all the “Scattered objects” are Components and NOT groups.
http://skatter.helpscoutdocs.com/article/85-render-only-is-not-working-with-twilight