@gianfranco_bm said: When I explode components, and reverse their faces, the interior face supposedly is the default material but it shows black and I know it is related to the color problem. Only when I turned every face to default and applied a new material, it rendered correctly. But I can't do this for every component. I tried to apply the Vray Glass Cristal material to a wine glass component and I had the same problem. After playing a bit with the cushion from the image attached, and deleting one of its faces, I saw it was still appearing in the render. Even after I deleted the whole cushion, it still appeared in the render! I purged the file and this stopped, but the problem with the color continued. I'm not sure if it's related, but I think it is. Help! Meanwhile I think I'll reinstall sketchup Hi, sorry for the late answer. You can not run from a problem with SU if you on purpose or accidentally apply a material to a group or component, it messes up your default material and produces problems as you have described. I really do not think you will get rid of that problem by reinstalling SU. What I do is if I get to that problems I explode a component or a group and apply default material and reapply new material and then make a group or a component again. I am almost sure that there is a plugin for that but since I do not get into those problems often I never investigate options like plugins for resolving them. Also, you need to follow advice for all non-single polygon object, ex. like curtains, keep a good orientation of your default material when you are creating a model.

your main problem is cr@ppy PC- get something decent. But now, in your situation only one thing could help you- aggressive vray denoising. If you got lots of transparent materials in vegetation- switch transparency type to 'clip'. Keep noise threshold at .01 or .02 (preferably). Lowering it to .005 is nonsense- you'll render forever.

how to restore the lost sketchup file because I forgot to save it?

Indigo renderer is OpenCL type so here is link, try it. https://www.indigorenderer.com/download-indigo-renderer LuxRendere is free one, so you could try this one also. https://luxcorerender.org/download/

bump? anyone have this issue?

OK, i've got solution On Environment Tab, i've repliced Background map which was /sunlight to color black, and turned on GI replacement and set there /sunlight. Edit:dont forget to also edit reflection replacemet same as GI [image: ISa1_1_VRAY_SETTINGS.JPG]

Figured it out yesterday. Had the Geoplane in vray on, then turned it off. I don’t think any question is ever stupid. It happens.

Please format the image/video line properly - we can't see it...

I'd been trying FRedo Animator + Vray, but I have issue on the last stage in creating the video. Vray stops at first frame and does not continue anymore to next frames, Animator seems to continue but also seems never ending on Frame 1. I have a feeling something wrong in my Vray setting. Please help, I am patiently troubleshooting now for days and nothing seems to work. Appreciate all the help.

You will have to learn more about how Vray works. Like here mentioned first try with Chaos YT channel and go through their Sketchup tutorials, you will learn a lot. This one I find great for beginners, https://youtu.be/IicE5MZPLkk

I don't think anyone is going to go through that effort to make a tutorial for you. But you should turn on swarm option in your render settings, install V-Ray Swarm on your other computer(s), run it, make sure all computers are connected to same network, hit render. That's the basics, but there could be many different issues, try and see. Write if you run into a specific problem.

@gd3design said: They recently added the search function to top of asset editor for this reason. You can search both the preset material library and materials in scene. I would like to see more organization for materials, such as grouping. But until then, the search function makes life a lot easier. Thank you GD3Design for your answer. Yes that group function would be a lot of help. Cheers

Hi rspierenburg, Thanks for your comment. This is the plugin I am using at the moment. I was wondering if there might be something else less glitchy. Billie

Thanks mate, it's so helpfull Love from Indonesia,️

Hopefully they would add it in the next version of Vray Next. We are still waiting for it. People still think 3DS Max is the king when it comes to photorealistic rendering but I'm sure Sketchup will take that place soon.

After a day of messing about I found the problem, I'll give an update just in case it helps anyone. My security and software I use to manage all my workplace machines has an auto container feature - so if it doesnt trust software one of my staff is running it will run it in a container to stop it infecting anything. Turns out it didn't like this version of Vray. It usually opens windows with a green boarder around them to signify its doing it. There must be some glitch with SU opening up in a floating window which means it just wont open.

I think that was because my UTC setting somehow brought a very weird effect which was quite dark. I changed it to UTC-7 then it's working ok, still not ideal for the interior yet but a lot better for the exterior.

Make a blend material with stucco as base and dirt material over top, set dirt to 'multiply' (blend or comptex...ahh, here it is------> https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VNFS/Mix+Operator

I am using High Sierra and the last (I think) MBP that had an nVidia card. It seems to me that High Sierra is the last MacOS for which you can get an nVidia web driver and CUDA version. And people have kindly posted all the versions on line. Whether this will work for eGPU is something I'd like to know. I think it is working because I get to use GPU rendering and Optix denoiser in Thea. (But my system barely makes it). You have to consider what the hardware recommendations are for Vray.

thanks, seems like there might be something there to get me going. Found the same file for vray sketchup which is what I'm using. Will update results.