Yes, you are right. That's what my perfectionist brain can't handle.

@thomthom said: When you use the Sun/Sky system as light source you will get clear shadows. (you can soften by increasing the sun's Size) But when you use HDRI as light source you have no control over the shadows. You can use HDRI as background and Sun/Sky as light source - but you might very well end up with lighting that doesn't fit with your background. Thanks...what about how to add the vegetation? Any idea where id find information or tutorial on how to do this? Thanks again

@thomthom said: That is just a link for yourself. Refer to these page on how to share Dropbox files: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16 https://www.dropbox.com/help/167 hello just to check if links are working.. let me know, thanks!

Hi, I think the problems with tutorial scenes are due to changes of vray settings in newer versions like yours. first of all check if your model has any materials, if not use a material on it. after that you need to go to vray material editor (the big M) and create a refraction and change its settings using the manual to obtain a translucent material, don't forget to uncheck the double sided material! u may also need to adjust the light intensity to about 10 or more. and turn of the GI color from the environment settings of the options. the old manual u r using is based on the old vray plugin, u will have to achieve most of new setting numbers manually. hope that would help

OOpps...sorry I thought I posted once, Thanks you.

Good to hear. Note that the multiplier must be increased as such when you use the Physical Camera. If you turn it off you must re-adjust the multiplier of the HDRI and all your light sources.

It short for my full name - Thomas Thomassen. (Oh yes it's true - and that name repeats itself down my history tree - names, as it turns out, are inheritable. Though they usually skips a couple of generations.) Got the nick when I went to England - we where three Thomas' in the house. One was called Thom, the other by his last name, and I became ThomThom. No one used 'Thomas' in England - they like to shorten words there. Even ThomThom got shortened, but since Thom was already used, it became TT - then even that was shortened to just T. "What some more tea, TT? hihihi..." ugh.... So there! What's your story?

Oi! That's how far I got with taking the Virtual into Reality. [image: 100830project.jpg] http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8985/100830project.jpg Check it out - will be glad to hear from you. Greets Shane McGoan

Yes, I always use "real" lights for main light source. Emmissive material only for the effect.

@topuz said: The problem is that I get a completely white render, not burned Sounds burned - extremely burned. Btw - what VfSU version do you have?

@richoss said: So you can see when I go to render, the colour of the materials revert back to the orginal colour. I changed the colour of the materials in sketchup to achieve what I wanted. VfSU doesn't support textures modified by SU. You must edit the texture in a image editor. ps. it helps if you post your VfSU version number when asking questions. Some versions behave differently from each other.

If an old scene doesn't render similar with the new version its something the ASGVis developers would like to hear about.

Any bugs and crashes using VfSu should be reproted to ASGVis to they can investigate the issue.

hello ledisnomad, try to change the following option: image sampler: adaptive DMC min 1, max 4, noise threshold 0.01 light cache: untick adaptive actually im using ver 1.05.30, hope it could work on your scene goodluck,

Thats great. Thanks for the help.

OK - DR problem went away after I loaded a new options file, There was something corrupt in my original visopt file. As for host machine - it's just kind of annoying that that last bucket sometimes sits there for half a minute after all the buckets on the slave are done. Oh well, certainly better than no DR.

@thomthom said: Sharper? Not sure sure what you mean here. It may be hard to tell from the posted pictures what I mean. It's ok. I think my main problem was the lack of light in the scene. I've added some more light and it's brightened that backwall up. Thanks

There are also topics over at ASGVis' forums.

@psallan said: I'm having the same problem with a file of mine... it won't render at all... even though it did before! the file weighs about 32Mb, has a few jpeg textures of facades, etc. but no displacement or anything... what can I do?? What version do you have?

hm... I'm guessing your got two surfaces right on top of each other - creating z-fighting.