Glad you got it sorted -- it's not rules perse but there have been issues here in the past in regards to this forum which is for shared use by many different 3rd party software. I'd rather not go through that again so I just wanted to preemptively reduce the possibility of conflict. Best, Jason.

Aha! Thanks! I will try this. Many thanks! Pieter

@panixia said: tank you! It's back on line now...

Possible maybe, but there are existing solutions available. http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp

Thanks for the reply! I have just changed the color to be darker. It's not a texture, just plain color material. And I have pressed the refresh button several times, but it still render the old color!? Help!?

Looking very interesting! Nice find!

Hello all, I've created a 3D warehouse collection of compatible Bloom Unit scenes. I'll be adding to it over the coming days, at the moment there are only three, but if you want to explore a scene with lighting and materials already applied you can try these. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=886ddd8b1171375c549aea9f300237 Have fun!

Hi Andy, Thank you for your comments. You are right, this is some that I always forgot. Kalu.

I'm not sure what to tell you on this -- smoothing renders as it should on my machine. Best, Jason.

@notareal said: GTX580 is not a bad at all. But as used architecture between kepler and fermi is rather different, cuda core to core comparison is difficult. There been talk that GTX6xxx series is inferior to GTX5xxx series, but this seems to be true only in some spesific instruction that Thea does not use. When some new CUDA features are used, GTX6xxx has some benefits. It would be very interesting to see a speed comparison between a 580 and a 680...

The white dots are reflected caustics -- they will clear but will take longer in the free versions "draft" mode for FIRE. Here are a few comparison renders (all to SL 12). !["Production" mode for FIRE](/uploads/imported_attachments/BaHX_chair_SL12.png ""Production" mode for FIRE")!["Draft" mode for FIRE](/uploads/imported_attachments/IzHc_chair_SL12_draft.png ""Draft" mode for FIRE") and as a slightly counter-intuitive work around I would reduce the roughness to 0 -- which causes the caustics to be less of an issue... as you see in this render (which will be the file I PM back to you).!["Draft" mode for FIRE with 0 roughness plastic](/uploads/imported_attachments/jY51_chair_SL12_draft2.png ""Draft" mode for FIRE with 0 roughness plastic") Best, Jason.

Well, it does appear darker to me in the SketchUp viewport as well -- I think somehow the texture/UVs have been scaled down by the ThruPaint plugin in that area. Best, Jason.

Thanks Pilou! I will look into that.

Hopefully someone moves this to the VRay forum, but for now, I can answer. Do you have region render enabled? Sometimes if this is still active, and you have made changes to your view and resolution, you can click render and nothing will happen. Have you tried resetting the defaults in your Options? What version of VR are you using?

Many thanks for the Info precision! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYnsJWepgA0

I think Al's thread is much better, but what you really need is a scene with fixed textures and lighting restrictions (not easy). Maybe the best thing would be a scene based on an image? I have a possible example - let me check the poly count and creative rights.

Thanks - The RpTreeMaker is for Windows only. However, we have created about 50 trees with it and stored them on the 3D Warehouse. You can load these into SketchUp and use them as is. These are 2D trees with a shawod mask to create good shadows. RpTreeMaker trees on the 3D Warehouse See this other thread: Library of Trees for RpTreemaker

We just released a new FluidRay RT video tutorial on the material and model library, showing how to edit materials and other scene elements in real-time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q9P5KcPck8

New article just posted from CG architect! Go have a read, http://www.cgarchitect.com/2012/10/bloom-unit-cloud-based-collaborative-rendering-for-sketchup More BU fans, always appreciated!

I've now created a new thread for the actual free release, however I'll post the note here as well! Bloom Unit is now free to download and use. Bloom Unit is a cloud based, physically accurate renderer for Sketchup, now downloadable for free. Coming with one free hour you can trial and test with, users then purchase more hours at $6 an hour. Simply head over to http://www.bloomunit.com to download now, also don't forget to check http://www.youtube.com/bloomunit for more movies and interesting features! Note; We are aware of an issue when arraying our light objects where it creates two lights ontop of each other at the terminal point of the array. This is being fixed as we speak. Please post any questions you might have and I'll do my best to answer promptly. Enjoy!