I'll give your tips with subdividing the geometry a try. I messed around with the displacement subdivs and the edge lengths etc already and took it all the way down to 32subdivs. Seemed to provide the best level of detail vs speed. 16 just looked liked a mess although it rendered fast. Instead of doing the whole render with displacement I took to the old trick of rendering the LC and IR passes without it on, saved them, ran them from file for the final render with the displacement on. Still took a while but much faster than calculating the LC and IR with the displacement on. I hope that it is just a kink and they are planning on ironing out how vfsu handles CPU management with displacements once Chaos Group decides vfsu is worth their time again.

Nope. Pack and Go is a request in the next release.

@rspierenburg said: You could try this material for the metal. thanks so much ill give it a try

not that I'm aware of. CG certainly doesn't provide it. Don't know where you would legitimately find it. Why wouldn't you just ask to transfer your license of your current version once you have your new machine set up? I've had to do that and it's really not a hassle.

I'm not the best representative of the entire company, I really only get to see a small window of what's going on. I get to see a list of bugs from customers, and a list of requirements from those above me. I just program and try to keep as best of a pulse on what's going on as I can. ASGvis, when it existed, was able to resell it's own product, which allowed us to play around with numbers some, but the underlying pricing scheme was always based upon the way Chaos Group did things. When 2.0 came out and RT came out, they charged for an upgrade. Now we are at the point where RT is working in our plugin core (with VfR at least). It's all still in the air though. I haven't heard any talk of definite pricing, licensing, etc. We are still at the point where we are trying to figure out what we need to tackle, when, how, and how long it will take. I wasn't told the final price of the VfR upgrade until the day of release, so I'm really not the best person to talk to about that kind of stuff. Tom - I understand the frustration, we will do our best to make our next release worthwhile, regardless of the pricing or feature set. We have made tons of fixes and optimizations already, it should be exciting to see what else we can improve. If it were up to me, I'm not sure if I'd opt to spend the time ripping features out of the current implementation of our product so that we could put out a bugfix patch, or if I'd spend that time to get the current features in VfS. Both options would probably take a similar amount of time, and each have their pros and cons, so it's a tough call.

There is no converter that will do this. Your best bet is to find a similar material already made in .vismat format and swap out the maps that come with the materials you are trying to convert.

I want that converter ,too!!!

@jrm1 said: @cmoreink said: If you have time and want quality ----> model your $!@%. Model your what?! Great shots btw. Got any hardware setup recommendations? I'm Mac based. 2008 8 core 10Gb RAM. Is that enough for a landscape with loads of plants? Model your stuff In regards to your rig, you are doing much better than me. Have you looked into a thomthom "clean up tool" http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=22920, that might help with some heavy landscaping. GLTY

Computer Specs? VR version? SU version? How many/what kind of lights? You should be able to render a 60MB file.

sorry, I meant in photoshop - use the "hue/Saturation" adjustment. Adjust the saturation slider down until it looks more gray.

A higher end computer will of course render faster. Could be the type of RAM and the speed of processor. You are comparing apples to oranges really.

Use this material on front and back faces. Thin Glass.vismat

Great thanks man , I was kinda lost with that material. Thanks again.

Me too. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=44117

Yeah, there's been a fix with the gamma level, so renders with the current version will be brighter. You can adjust with the inverse using 0.4545

i assume you render with VRay - since Reflection channel didn't help, you could try Raw Reflection. but maybe an easier way would be to remove the color from the sea and leave it white - that way the bumps would stay but you would have no problems with selection.

It worked perfectly, thanks a million!

Save as a TIFF

Thank you for having responded and for advice. May be the problem is my CPU cooler. It`s flat and smaller from the image.It s not enough for the stress of computer. Thanks again.

thanks for the shared material, i'll try it right away meanwhile i found the post where i read about the double-glazing windows with vray.