Render Studio Custom Appearances

Stuart_Wood_01

I'm really liking the recently improved Render Studio, i'm finding it much more user friendly and intuative.

I do however have an issue with appearances. I don't appear to be able to save my own appearances to my Company Favourites.
This isn't such a problem for the current document i'm working with but it does mean that any Custom Appearances are not ported across to other documents which require the same Custom Appearance.

Have I missed something or will this be an improvement request ?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

eric_pesty

You can now "import" appearances from another render studio. I've created a document in my "admin files" with some render studios where I import appearances for later re-use.
Not as "clean" as a real library system but it works reasonably well to save and retrieve appearances as you can a pick and chose which ones to import between studios.

MichaelPascoe

I agree, it has come a long way! It's feeling more and more Onshape. They also really increased the performance so that it's pretty user friendly now.

There are still a few things like this that make it painful to use. I should probably go make some IR's for these. Don't really want to bombard the Onshape team with theses atm, but may upload them soon.

• Option to turn off live render preview so that it doesn't block out everything while moving around. Or perhaps don't live render it until the camera has stopped moving for 3 seconds. I can't move things around with the block out view anyways so we might as well be able to just turn it off.
• Having to version your document then go and update render studio like it's a different document is a huge pain. Needs to behave similarly to derive from the same document so that the references are live.
• Saving your own library of appearances. This would save quite a bit of time since I have a handful of common custom appearances that I like to use.
• Creating custom textures. I expect just drag and drop bitmap, normal, roughness, metalic. But it is much more difficult. I still haven't been able to make a custom texture even though I've been given instructions directly from Onshape multiple times.
• Environment: The background is still confusing, now there are two places to set the background? This should be simplified into one large button called "Environment".
  • Environment settings that might be nice so that we know what is changing:
    • "Use lighting from environment"
    • "Use custom lighting"
    • "Override background"
    • etc…

eric_pesty

You can now "import" appearances from another render studio. I've created a document in my "admin files" with some render studios where I import appearances for later re-use.
Not as "clean" as a real library system but it works reasonably well to save and retrieve appearances as you can a pick and chose which ones to import between studios.

Stuart_Wood_01

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/113598#Comment_113598

Great idea as a work around until a library system (hopefully) gets implemented.

Thanks for the tip.

Stuart_Wood_01

These are all really valid suggestions for improvements and would certainly improve the quality of life in Render Studio.