I can only recommend Silo. Sure, it hasn't been updated in years, and yes, there's some long-standing bugs in there, but, really, whenever I open Silo, I go ahhhh. "Whenever I open Silo, I go ahhhh." Not a bad slogan. Copyrighted!

@matheos said: I'm not sure both plugins will bite each other. Does anyone know if this is possible? yes. it is possible they will bite each other... but if you turn them both off, using the SCF plugin, then turn them on ONE at a time you should be OK to test... john

like I see it as a digital updating of the white foam-board block model for clients that just can't 'see' 3d in even the best hand or digital 2d drawings or 3d models... Ideal for people who can't 'model make' catering to people who can't 'visualise' in 3d... there are a lot of both... best of all, no scalpels required... and you can always print you own 'non conforming' additions, so it's more like lego on steroids... john

Hi there, I am having problem with 100 Bit Tools Pro.. All 4 of the array tools crashes every i use it by selecting the line or point. other than that, all tools seem working... I am on Sketchup 2013 Pro with Window 7. Please help!...

@jeff hammond said: ^ great. thank you Jeff, I was gonna respond with some more info about material migration, but I feel like to do so would be hijacking the thread. Therefore I'm posting my next reply here instead. Andrew

i have the same problem. but my IES lights does not work.

@pbacot said: ^^ mind blowing? What's Byzantos? A Lumion third party developer? He is a beta tester I believe, brilliant artist and has some content he gives away, very helpful guy.

You can also consider Simlab Composer! An easy one! And it works for quasi any formats files!

i am very thanks to you i am trying explode the groupe and appling material after that the objects appeare in render thaks to your interesting

Judging from the last image you posted and the capture of your settings, I'd recommend changing your "Optics" settings. An fstop of 39.6 is fairly uncommon (most lens that aren't specialty top out around f22), and adjust your shutter speed to something more realistic. Shutter speed in your settings is set to 1/.02, which isn't something you'd ever see in the real world (again, Maxwell relies on realistic settings for its light calcs). Maybe start with 1/30 and go from there? It doesn't look like the file is getting errors, and your sky isn't quite "black" as you say. The image is just severely underexposed. Hope that helps! Also as a quick note, for interiors, Maxwell will render significantly cleaner and faster is the interior isn't completely sealed from the outside environment. Transparent materials don't contribute, so try to have one portion of the model open to the outside, perhaps, behind the camera or somewhere out of sight.

Quick test, 5 min render. One pass, HDRI+emitter inside. Added a bit of contrast and glow in PS. (The interior is unrealistically bright compared to the environment lighting - but just to show the effect.) [image: testwqsi6.jpg] btw. your image is missing the background in the rear windows

Thank you!

I have to agree Twan... Although the way it renders the stone, the depth of the texture is really great.

I'll try that! Thanks!

@unknownuser said: RevUp Render Supports V-Ray in the Cloud On-Demand Rendering Service Works with Maya, 3ds Max, Sketch-Up and More http://www.studiodaily.com/2012/07/revup-render-supports-v-ray-in-the-cloud/

@krisidious said: Good work doesn't need to be changed...

@eugatr said: Hello Guys!! I've been messing around with the vray animation thingy, and while I do get all the images rendered according to the scenes, when stitched together the camera... um... shakes... the scene animation on sketchup (pre render) seems pretty smooth but somehow after rendering it looks like if the video was recorded by someone with parkinsons disease anybody knows how to solve this? thanks a bunch! How are you generating your animation path in Sketchup? Some animation plugins will generate hundreds of SU scenes - the problem with rendering that, is if the frame rate is not 1 to 1, then the rendering program will extrapolate the transition between the frames based on the SU movement, so you'll get a very jerky video. Try generating your animation scenes at the full frame rate, and then when you render with vray, set your fps rate to custom rate of "1" Hope that helps. Andy

That's correct, you don't see the channels that are selected in your frame buffer. You have to select the "save all channels" button (the one right next to the save image button) and then it will save all the files out. To have a channel rendered, you have to click on it in the VFB Channels options so that it is highlighted before you start the rendering. (You only show RGB and Alpha highlighted in your screengrab.)

For those faithful to Shaderlight… or, if anyone is already using Shaderlight and wanting to avoid paying 1/4th the price of the full version just to use it with SU 2014, the solution is making the models in SU 2014, then "downgrading" them (Save-as) to SU 2013 or SU 8 files and finally rendering in the identical SL 2013 (already paid for) plugin.

Seems they are changinf the cupon product each day! (Today is for Shark etc...