Renerabbitt

Afternoon Suzy, First off thanks for dropping a question in my direction- in future I will respond promptly if you use the "quote selection" tool as it will ping me Onto your question, their was an ongoing conversation about this in the Beta forums so I will try and quote what I wrote to DianneDSC over there which should answer your question...in short yes its possible, ideally you need to setup cloud permissions so that each computer has exclusive control to force overwrite its respective library...see below quote: On 3/5/2019 at 7:39 AM, DianneDSC said: @Renerabbitt I am having some issues getting this set up. I had a conflicted copy message from dropbox on my computer when another user made a change to their user library on their computer. How is this working for you? Perhaps I have something set up incorrectly. Any insight will be appreciated. There are 2 of us that need to have access to each others user library. Thank you. Renerabbitt wrote: Its working well for me perfectly thus far so let's check this out... First up let me be clear about how I am using this- 1. I use 3 cloud services ea. with multiple accounts. one cloud service is being used with two accounts to sync up my clouds and nothing else. 2. Account 1 is sharing Desktop library with account 2 and account 2 is sharing its main library with account 1- this may not be Necessary, it's how I first set it up. You can create a symlink to a symlink which could avoid this scenario if needed added control of sync. 2. OneDrive account 1 is used for only syncing user libraries, nothing else. It remains off for most of the day(not active) 3. I have my OneDrive auto scheduled to only turn it on at the end of a day 4. My desktop User library is placed at lets say z:/CA/Desktop User Library/. My Desktop machine has its main user library sym-linked to that location. My Laptop has this library sym-linked to manufacturer libraries. 5. My laptops user library is placed at z:/CA/Laptop User Library/. My Desktop has a sym-link to this user library in its manufacturer libraries. My Laptop has a sym-link to this library as its main user library. 6. What this does is make it so that on the laptop the desktop user library never changes and thus has no reason to be synced, and on the desktop the same is true(inverse respectively) First off do you both have file locking selected in your preferences under file management? uncheck that. next, maybe we need to establish some method or rather protocol for overwriting...I'm not using dropbox for this purpose but maybe take a look at this article: https://products.secureserver.net/products/off/help/OFF_Program/OFF_Program/off_program/settings/setting_options_for_dropbox.htm You want this setup so that his/her machine will force an over write of his/her library only...same goes for you and your library. That may not be necessary- try this : Add a folder at the root of ea. user library designating which library it is..e.g/ Dianne's User library Dianne has her user library in z:/CA/Dianne_s library on her machine and create a symlink from her library to dropbox:/Dianne_s Library/ George has his user library in x:/CA/George_s library on their machine and create a symlink in dropbox:/George_s Library/ Dianne has a symlink in mfr libraries on her machine that links to dropbox:/George_s Library/User Library.calib George has a symlink in mfr libraries on their machine that links to dropbox:/Dianne_s Library/User Library.calib Let me know how it goes- I think I covered my use scenario and why it's working- and it makes me very happy not to be messing with this anymore, i have no sync issues to date On 3/6/2019 at 8:31 AM, DianneDSC said: @Renerabbitt Thank you for your help. I have it all so that we are seeing each other's user library on each other's laptops. However, if one of us adds something to or makes a change to our personal library, it is not reflecting on the other person's laptop. Based on your comment above, is this the correct behavior? Or does your user libraries update and sync when your one drive is activated at the end of the day so the next day everyone can see and access each other's changes? Even after closing CA and reopening it, our library changes are not being updated to the other person's laptop. I used the process below: Renerabbitt wrote: Yes I only sync at the end of the day to update the days changes. Ideally you would schedule this so that no user is in CA as that would avoid naming conflicts. this way of setting things up simply ensures that you wont lose your library from conflicts..it doesn't ensure that the other persons library on your machine wont have conflicts. But even with conflicts you will see an old version of his library and a new version of yours. since his user library in your machine will never be changed from your end, at some point his updates will show up when their is no inherent file locking. the ultimate goal i think would be to figure out how to force overwrite which i had a link to in the other post. this would make it so that no matter what state his user library is in, when his dropbox sees a new user library from him it will force overwrite all other versions of that file instead of creating a copy.

Mods should just pin a laptop thread to the top of the pile, haha

Am I missing something...I have always wondered, is there a way to tab to the dimension input on temp dimensions, or is hover-over-select the only method?

Just wanted to chime in and say that this is NOT an issue. This is HOW PBR works- it requires light sources, nothing will ever look accurate in PBR without proper lighting. This defeats the whole purpose of PBR. Most if not all other rendering software's require user added lights. without light there is no physics sort to speak. I see no point in using PBR with fake generated point lights. put a light in the room, no major living spaces have 0 lights- takes two seconds. You'd spend way longer trying to figure out settings just to find that you will have to modify all settings again once you've added lights

exactly- which is why I put image files or pdfs that are linked in plan into the same folder as the plan and layout file...same as fonts etc.

HA,I woke up this morning thinking it was thursday..DOH! I beat you to my spelling error, haha...I don't write much anymore, that part of my brain is turning to mush. yes re-linked...I didn't come up with that method, it was shared with me by a long-time user as a standard established some 30 years ago in a CAD program. Avoids potential "forgetting to link" scenarios...I used to do it your way for sure.

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my method does not require this and is much simpler IMO..see above...only thing that needs tweaking is saved plan views with reference files...the reference files need to be changed to the new location. I NEVER use save as. when copy pasting the root folder the associations are inherent- no plan linking needed. I almost downvoted...I'm a downvote virgin

Maybe fill out your sig some more so we know if you are on mac or windows Save plan A and layout A in documents/project_A exit CA in windows explorer: GoTo documents/ and copy and paste project_A windows will rename to project_A_1 open your new folder project_A_1 and rename the plan_A and layout_A should be good to go

It can be helpful to save a polyline region set to use recessed lights to your library and then pin it to your toolbar. The poly region just distributes Recessed lights quickly without hassle, takes 2 seconds

Cheers and thanks, I'm not sure, you may be correct, I always have user added lighting systems as I am usually creating con docs...not sure the current state of the generate light

You could turn up exposure, also PBR isn't a miracle worker, you have a room with zero direct light, it's going to be pretty dark..try taking a picture with a late model iPhone and no flash and it would look about the same

POST 26 A new old floor! Using Substance Designer created this floor from my oak plan floor in the previous upload DOWNLOAD: RABS ROUGH GOLDEN OAK FLOOR.calibz Enjoy!!! The uploads are slowing down as I am concentrating efforts on producing a very robust toolbar hotkey front-end for tablets...I am limited to ASCII characters....typing this post from this tablet interface!! stay tuned: CLICK ME TO GO BACK TO THE INDEX!!!

Downloaded substance designer and took a swing at an old golden oak floor similar to gelbuilding's...its in my symbols and content thread in my sig

Mind sharing your plan file with your settings saved for tracing. Try unchecking compute caustics? try turning up ambient light... try letting it run for 100 passes....there are a great number of things that can cause noise in a ray trace.

don't understand...why aren't you selecting the line as designating it as centerline in your dimension dbx?

I try and avoid displacement maps as much as possible, just introduces so many problems, especially with CA geometry. CA would likely get a lot of tech support calls... Clipping masks and multiple diffuse layers for one material on the other hand would be a big ask for me

Thank you, that of course means a lot to me. Yes, I need to clean it up, it's a combination of CA vids and playing video games, haha! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbkgwAcrZQP0Ek0bNmqpgAQ?view_as=subscriber Also wanted to mention the reason for the side by side was I was able to utilize tools across the two windows instead of having to click in a second tabbed view and re-select a tool I was already using in the the previous tabbed view. Which is why I switched to having only 3d items in the side bar otherwise we would see them as a division between the two windows of plan vs 3d

Thank you, very helpful- another question, will substance designer allow you to tile a texture while randomizing- this is the biggest time sap for me when creating say flooring textures or tile- it seems as if it does just that, which would be worth buying the whole suite for me btw- not fair that I've been living in the dark ages under a rock all this time

If you could please quote me next time so I will get notification,I'd appreciate it.... else I might've missed this question If I split a 3d view out of CA and the window-left arrow to tile my 2 CA instances I get this result: notice my 3d toolbars are on the side, and my plan toolbars are top and bottom. I've actually been reducing my toolbars to just user added items as I transition to my new toolbar system on my touch tablet. I'm typing this response using my ipad with this system- which is in development still: this layout has already changed quite a bit since these screenshots were taken

does substance "player" have the ability to load your own textures?

I bought substance years ago and never got around to playing with it...looking forward to digging in when time allows...thanks CA team, very cool post.

POST 25 A set of floors I created, reduced and optimized for CA PBR. Keep voting and I will try and bring new content accordingly. remember that these floors look very sharp when using a color to " blend with material" DOWNLOAD: RABS FLOORING PACK 1.calibz Enjoy!!! The uploads are slowing down as I am concentrating efforts on producing a very robust toolbar hotkey front-end for tablets...I am limited to ASCII characters....typing this post from this tablet interface!! stay tuned: CLICK ME TO GO BACK TO THE INDEX!!!

Exactly, I was hoping to decrease error by avoiding the cmd prompt instructions. you bring up a good point though, I hadn't run into any shell extension problems but I also have only dabbled in shell extensions briefly in past. I will amend that post to suggest removing the extension afterward if you think it advisable.