To get grass to show up in your renders, for the standalone plugin, you will need to start Maxwell Fire & go to Engine Settings and set Extensions to Enabled. [image: hHn0_MaxwellFireGrassSettingsEnabled.PNG]

Yes, uploading is the bottleneck. But that's really the end user problem since the farm itself has a very speedy connection to the web. We had a problem downloading our files last week. They gave us a refund so it was solved rather well by Rebus. But the biggest advantage of the farm is incredible speed, this means you can switch on any channels you like along with Multiplight. The mxi file you download can be used to finetune the image and you can safe the image in any format. Great, I never realised before that a renderfarm is the way to go for larger projects that are well paid enough to spend the extra money. What kept me from going there before is that it sounded complicated. But it was actually very simple to set up. Francois

Hi there, John: Perhaps if you could post an image or a .skp of your issue, folks might be able to better visualize a solution. Just as a start, are you making components or groups of your columns, so that they do not interact or affect the circle? Are you specifying the number of segments in the circle or using the program default? Do you use guidelines?

Thanks for the info - thats a lot of help. I do so many hacky little tricks with SU that I've reached a point where I just want solid stuff that works, rather than spending time trying to figure out whats going wrong and where (entirely my fault most of the time) Ash

My mistake Notareal

1.10 version released...

Instructions on how to add custom attributes to your internal sketchup report system. http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/04/adding-custom-attributes-to-your.html some one do this for me. thanks.

Ran into the same issue after installing, tried going back to a earlier version of Silverlight but to no avail. But now there is a update to Maxwell Render, appears they have moved away from Silverlight & now supports Sketchup 2013. Here is the link to the Maxwell's website http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=40712&sid=5e2cd8d5040be25d6c31bb6f68b92c4d

I agree... Very good for exterior but it makes few mistakes on interior shots.

As it seems people are at least looking for a download link. Even if it was on a file sharing site or where ever but legal.

If you a want a very easy one : Simlab Composer 2014 Animation (249 $) (and will work for any 3D format file!

Try here... http://keyshot.com/forum/

Indigo does, Pete.

@luigi755 said: @grega22 said: Does anyone know anywhere else to download kerkythea? Website constantly says "This site has been temporarily disabled, please try again later." I try to access the site and gives me an Error 401... Only the kerkythea forum at http://www.kerkythea.net/forum/ does work at the moment. No file ropository. Giannis is working with the updated site, but it's unfortunatelly a slow work (as most of the time is used on Thea render developement). If your friend/collequoe/... has a kerkythea installation pack, maybe they can share it. But please keep in mind that even as kerkythea is a free software, it not a public domain/GPL/..., and distribute it only in small a scale (unless you get a permission from giannis). EULA denies a mass distibution of Kerkythea via web and so.

I use it. I does a good job within reason. UV preservation is always hard to control. Did you try Blender's Decimation?

Yeah I think Pilou has the closest thing you're going to find. It should accomplish your needs.

What version of V-Ray for SketchUp are you using? Does this happen with the default materials that come with SketchUp? Does this happen in a fresh scene with just a box?

Here is an interesting post on the formz forum regarding a Thea plugin, be sure to read the 2nd post. http://www.formz.com/forum/discus41/messages/16/62491.html?1367870713

@unknownuser said: Nice tree btw! It was made with tree maker plugin for SU... @unknownuser said: I have to get used to using MLT method. It seems a lot slower though. Maybe you can try with Path tracing progressive? A bit quicker for that kind of scene. @unknownuser said: Just out of curiosity why does this happen? (Bias=halo unbiased=no halo) Well, I've never used biased presets so...I don't know. I think you need to tweak some settings as I said.

1.2 user manual is not linked on their website yet... being updated. here's the straight link. http://help.revizto.com/1_2_Editor/