It has a pane on the left with different options and buttons. The interface is not very confusing or complex. After loading your model, you can start the program directly instead of opening it through SketchUp every time. A window will pop-up asking you to choose the objects you want to render, and then the main Raylectron window will open. Using SketchUp, go to the “View” menu and select “Raylectron Render”. The supported operating systems are Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64-bit versions supported). After installing it you can find it under the “View” menu in Sketchup. It has come out clean from our virus scans and isn’t bundled with any additional software. It finishes in only a few moments and afterwards it’s ready to be used normally. Installation is pretty easy to perform and has no difficult steps. After transferring your model to Raylectron it works as a standalone application. Adjusting the lighting, shadows, reflections, shininess, refraction and other types of environmental factors with the program is easy and the results are spectacular.

It has plenty of features that give you full control over the model, and more importantly the light source. Raylectron is a plugin for Google SketchUp which can actually convert 3D models into photorealistic images. Plot_3d(elev_matrix, zscale = 30, fov = 0, theta = 335, zoom = 0.' Photorealistic renderer plugin for SketchUp' library(dplyr)Īdd_water(detect_water(elev_matrix), color = 'desert') %>%Īdd_shadow(ray_shade(elev_matrix, zscale = 3), 0.5) %>%Īdd_shadow(ambient_shade(elev_matrix), 0) %>% My code I have been using so far is below. So does anybody have any suggestions for how I would go about saving very high quality images produced by Rayshader directly to my working directory?

The render_snapshot() function is meant to be able to save a file but I have not been able to get that to work so far. The image within the viewing panel is rather small and then when I try to export the image as above they are of quite poor quality. However, for the plot_3d() function the image appears in a rgl viewer for a few seconds before disappearing and then re-appearing in the RStudio viewing panel. This seems to work fine for the 2D images produced by the Rayshader plot_map() function. I usually export images directly from the RStudio viewing panel using the drop down box and then by selecting the format required i.e.

I have been using the Rayshader package in R in conjunction with RStudio and have been producing some nice 2D and 3D images.

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