@reymond said: hello together how do I create a material such as a plastered wall? as shown on the image. can someone help me and tell me or share a material? thx all Hi When I was first learning Vray, I would download materials and study how they were made up. There are loads of materials here http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html You being a paid customer have access to loads of free materials. Use them.

make you sure that in the "Indirect Illumination" tab the GI -> On box is checked

@valerostudio said: Not sure of his units settings but I use decimals (.) in all of my parameters with no problems. I have never seen anyone use commas (,) 'murican... (with a George W. inflection.)

Hi there! Yes, there is, and there has been for quite a while: you simply go to ChaosGroup Website, register (it's free) and you can download Vray for Sketchup for Mac Demo.

The "Ruby Console" is 'built-in' to SketchUp, it's always available... so use: Sketchup Menu > Window > **Ruby Console**... BUT, before asking such simple questions, please try to learn to use some of the myriad of Help files and search options that Sketchup offers - it clearly explains this particular issue here, when used with a with an search for 'open Ruby Console'... http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/search.py?hl=en&ctx=en%3Asearchbox&query=open+Ruby+Console&oq=open+Ruby+Console&gs_l=partner.3...1565.1899.0.2148.3.3.0.0.0.0.63.179.3.3.0.gsnos%2Cn%3D13..0.0.313j48989j3j2..1ac.1.YGB9iEqjChI We're here to help on the more awkward stuff

You are geniuses !!! THANKS ! I had tried that but i one sided it on v ray and that just make it craches so i drop the idea ! When it was right there from the beginning !!! Too bad it won't work for 3 objects but... well i have wait so long for that solution i can spend some time creating flat images of my 3D stuffs with the right angle. A really BIG THANKS !!

there are various causes for this to appen. try exit the application and restart.. then try to ovverride materials.. and also you should give more information about your model, materials etc.. anyway there are a lot of discussions about this.. http://sketchucation.com/forums/search.php?keywords=encountered+error%28s%29+while+trying+to+render+error+log+details&fid%5B0%5D=322

hi chon, i´t s great, at the end i´ve found it! man, i´m glad that was a trivial problem thank you all you guys ! [image: SkvJI.jpg]

@andybot said: um, silly question, but are you trying to render a line in vray? If you are, you need to give it a face. Vray doesn't render lines, no matter what material you give it. You could also share your test file and maybe the answer is in there. lol no i wasn't trying to render a line thats why i was using toon material

hi solo, thanks for your answer and kind offer to upload a model of the lamp. that´d be very kind of you!

Unfortunately I can't....

maybe also more than 30-40 as far as i can see the proper value changes at each renders depending of the lighting conditions.. i suspect that in your case you should raise it a lot because you have a lot of splotches.. keep testing and read soemething about the vray engine.. the link posted by valero is a very good start, look further in that site, it refers to vray for 3dsmax but it works quite the same in vray for sketchup..

@bstjames00 said: Thanks for the help I will try that, but just a note the wall finish is not reflective at all, does that make a difference? Then I would guess it's most likely your light source. Change the shadow subdivisions from (default) 8 to 16 and see if it makes a difference. If you keep increasing the number, but it's still a problem, then try increasing your AA settings.

woooooooooooooow! I finally did it. Thank you so much for the help Master Thomthom!! Thank you also for this great community... [image: SmNr_render.jpg] [image: VEt2_render2.jpg]

oh, a bump map... In effect I didn't even think to use it because I tought it was for soft effect... like (for example) orange peel. Ok, I'll try. Or will use a vertical plane to end the edge. Thanks

i find that it's a lot cleaner create a new material, load that texture and properly map it on the geometry rather than import an image and place it onto geometry from file/import etc. create a regular material and always check if it's applyed on the front face.. maybe this will help vray to avoid this strange behaviour.. also, if you need to scale/place the texture in a more effective way than the native "texture position" tool, i suggest to give a look at thrupaint by fredo6, thomthom uv toolkit may be helpful too, as it provides a tool to fit texture to quad faces etc..

thank you fro replies.. i find the problem.. it was in the refraction layer the color was black when i turned it white it was fine then thank you

one quick troubleshooting advice: are you running more than one window of Sketchup? There are some bugs that occur if you have more than one instance of vray running at the same time. Try using only one window of SU and see if the problem goes away.

@andybot said: @fuzzion said: Its called cow grass if you like that sort of thing... The cows liked it

This happens to me occasionally when I have changed the colour/transparency of a vismat material and/or I have an imported model with an unrecognised texture. In the first case, I tend to save what I am working on and exit, when I restart it all worls fine. In the latter case, if you are using an imported model, it may be worth removing the textures from this model and re-applying them with either native or vismats. Hope this helps