If you are a paid user, you also have access to the express tools in the downloads section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1p8n_MQog

So I pulled the Trigger and bought Thea and I must say I am liking the interface and stability....Just need to learn the UI on the Studio Part and find the best driver for my Dual GTX 780. Thea in SU is very easy to use. Thanks again for the advice...!

I am also have this problem. How do I check the XMLDRSpawner running?

You must have 2 different versions of VRay though because SU8 is 32 bit and 2015 is 64, right? I wouldnt mix versions like this. Stick with one or you are asking for trouble in my opinion.

Yet again V-ray loaded model and MSWindows gives this message, for the 1st time ever. Even if with 16GB of RAM and 3D model using only 3GBs. While building raycaster accelerator the computer freezes and mouse cursor moves very hard. No displacements, totally cleaned model, purged and with synced materials and maps. Any sollution to this? Later edit: Solved it. It's just the model management wrong. Had to hide some components that were invisible on this scene, the second floor and some plants on there right that are visible in another scene. Thanks in advance! [image: 8Pt6_vraymemoryfailure_3.jpg]

@lampe au néon pelle à tarte said: Hi there ! I had the same problem not long ago and I applied the following solution : 1-when you download a vismat, you are provided with a folder containing several files. Usually the vismat itself, a bump file, a displacement file, AND a diffuse file. 2-When your vismat is imported, select it with the eyedropper tool of the Material window in sketchup. Then in the Vray material Editor, in the "diffuse" section, click on the blue M between "color" and "transparency". 3-In the Vray texture Editor, select TexBitmap in the list right Under the preview window. 4-At the top of the window you're in, fill the "file" field by browsing and selecting the diffuse file that came with your downloaded vismat folder. It is a jpeg that usually has either a D or a "Diffuse" in its name.If it's already selected before browsing, act as if it was not, and select it + ok. 5-Click ok and look at your material in your model now. Now it appears as such, and not as a plain meaningless color. Note that now, you can scale it like any sketchup material in the Material window of sketchup. From a beginner to another, my solution might not be so academic, but it worked for me. If it does for you, I'll be glad, since very simple questions for beginners generate very few interrest/answer in this forum. Unfortunately. B good and tell me about it. Amazing! Thank you very much.

You might want to log into http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/downloads.html and just download the 64bit and reinstall to be sure. The installer should read as follows: vray_adv_20025539_sketchup_2015_win_x64

Do not unplug the dongle while you're rendering. V-Ray will loose the License and most likely drop the render mid way through. [image: 1CBV_1625933.jpg]

@valerostudio said: There is no magic button. You have to light a scene the way you would in real life. Fixtures with IES lights, windows letting in sunlight, maybe you even setup a few rectangular lights behind your camera as additional lighting, the same way a photographer would. http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2013/03/how-to-mix-light-sources-to-warm-interior-photo http://www.cg-blog.com/index.php/2012/09/04/living-light-balance.htm I like the clear and simple way how you have expressed this. Your three sentences should be the introduction for each lighting chapter of any Render Tool. However, I would like such a "magic button"

Hi again! As a mac user I`d like to know how to resize the nodes (like "endpoint", "midpoint",etc) because they all are pretty tiny and it i difficult to see whileI work on SU. Thanks in advance. PD How can I post a new subject on the forum?

probably need to go back to default settings and update camera, environment, etc. settings. There may be a bug that once you select other than RT CPU, the vray settings get messed up.

Thank you all for your input. Very Helpful...

Can you post screenshots of your material diffuse and material maps settings ?

@albebrigati said: Hello I use vray 2.00.02. 2.00.02 is not a version number. Should be something like 2.00.25774. You can find the specific build number when you go in Sketchup to Window --> Preferences and look at Extensions list and find vray for SU.

@tedvitale_cg said: Try this glass out. You'll need to apply it to a thickened geometry for the refraction to work (model the glass pane), but it should give you a good starting point. Thanks for that, really appreciate it! I will get some rendering done this weekend using that glass.

Do not use emissive materials to light your scene. Some engines can do this, VRay for SU cannot right now. you have to place IES or spots in those cans.

Are you using the demo? The demo has resolution limitations.

Well, I hope your renders got out on time, but two quick suggestion I can make is to first, try deleting any lights in the scene. Sometimes lights become corrupt and cause a scene to not render. If that doesnt work, a last resort would be to go to Extensions> V-Ray> Debugging> Regenerate all materials. You'll have to re-build all your materials from the base diffuse layer up, but the model should render again. Let me know how it goes with the model.

Doh! I realized I can simply freeze vray via Preferences-> Extensions. Thank you for response.

Also by the looks of your Frame Buffer it's zoomed in 800% which is why its so blurry. If you click on your Frame Buffer window and use the scroll wheel to zoom back out to 100% is it still blurry?