how to render the conceptual model of grasshopper by rendering software, like Brazil,vray?

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Permalink Reply by WT4 on August 12, 2009 at 10:13pm

There is a shade preview component which by default gives you an apple green colour which you can change using another component. It is not brilliant but I think it will take too much resource if a full blown rendering process is used.

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Permalink Reply by Lars Renklint on August 13, 2009 at 5:45am

In Grasshopper you have a button that looks like a fried egg. Select the components in Grasshopper that contains the model you would like to render, click the fried egg-button to bake that to actual Rhino geometry which you then can render.

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Permalink Reply by chi yan on August 15, 2009 at 12:30am

Thanks so much!It really works!

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Permalink Reply by Fluxo interactive architecture on October 13, 2011 at 4:16am

I Lars, I'm an new user of Grasshopper and Rhino.

I´m looking exactly for this kind of button! but I didn't find it. In witch part of the menu can i look?

Thank's

 

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on October 13, 2011 at 5:29am

Solution>'Bake Selected' from the Main Menu Bar or right click on a selected component and look in the context menu that pops up.

 

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Fluxo interactive architecture on October 13, 2011 at 6:31am

I found It! 

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Sheridan on August 25, 2009 at 9:51am

Animating with GH :

We can't bake all the frames of a 1000 frame animation, it would take so long!... So there must be an alternative? Has GH got a function that utilises one of the plug-in engines (like penguin) to render the frames output in combination with the clever and simple slider animation function?

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Permalink Reply by Peter Varo on August 25, 2009 at 2:59pm

Hey, I need exactly this option too!
(Except, that I have 2000 frames but) I also want to render with Penguin..
I think a VB component will be the solution, with a Boolean toogle connected to it.. but what will be the script?
Help us, pls!

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 25, 2009 at 8:17pm

Several people have posted definitions that automate this process. Bake geometry, render, save frame, delete geometry, bake again, etc. Actually, in my first post in this forum i posted a definition that does exactly that:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/vray-animation?page=1&...

It will render using the current render engine.

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