...whatever tool you decide for - since you study architecture, focus on the essential things like materiality or lighting and don't let yourself be seduced by "nonsense" like trees blowing in the wind, like zombies walking people or stupid rippling waves in even stupider swimming pools and don´t waste your time with the photorealistic visualization of toilet bowls 😄 😉 unless, of all things, someone would pay a lot of money for it 😉 😉

Try SketchUPtextureclub. You have to look through a lot of textures (close up view) to see if it has the features you want. Some of the textures have specular, AO, bump maps etc.

Try disabling displacement.

Hi Robby thanks for your reply!

Yes I also tried playing with the ior values but didn't quite get the effect I was looking for. Also the glass bulb seems to be 2 sided. Anyways I just decided to copy the correct bulbs again for me to move on. But if anyone can explain how or why this happens that would be great!

A quick fix would be to convert the texture to JPG. It doesn't have an Alpha channel.

C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/base_serializer💯in `update_plugin_from_json' подскажите пожалуйста в чем проблема как исправит ь

You should contact Chaos Group's Customer Support.

@andybot said:

My understanding is that the current version of the plugin doesn't activate until you use it, so the loader isn't needed any more.

Oh. Okay. Thanks. 👍

@joydeep70 said:

With thea render there is a option called z clip. I think that will solve your problem.

Thanks for the tip, however this is the VRAY forum not the Thea forum and the last post is over a year old.

Hey there,
This really depends on the resolution, good bright lighting, and post production 😄
There are a lot of good resources for that if you google.
I can post a couple of links here for you if you want 😄

Google VrayDistanceTex tutorials.

I would do what it says: "if problem persists, submit log files to support@Vray."

One workaround to try is to copy everything into a new, fresh sketchup file. Maybe only copy a few parts at a time, and test vray between each copy.

A couple quick things you could try:

First try disabling displacement. Uncheck 'Displacement' under 'Switches' in the Asset Editor, then see if it renders any better. If it does, then you have a material using displacement that is causing too much calculations. (although, if this was the problem, it would probly get stuck on building light cache....) If it still isn't rendering, try resetting your vray settings to default (the little circle arrow at the bottom of asset editor) and try rendering on one of the default quality settings like, 'Medium'. If neither of these work, you can try copying portions of your scene to a new file a couple pieces at a time and performing test renders until you find the culprit.

Good luck!

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Hi.
Im facing an issue with my Vray renderer.

It keeps showing me this message that i have attached as a scheenshot.

Opened Ruby Console in the Windows menu and it showed me the following message :
C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/live_scene/live_scene:267:in launch_render' C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/gui/commands:52:in block in module:GUI'
C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/gui/commands:13:in call' C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/gui/commands:13:in block in generate_command'
SketchUp:1:in `call'

However, I'm unable to understand what is wrong.

Kindly advice 😄

Do you mind describing more in details please?
As I know one may apply "fur" to a group ( That has a material, optionally) not a material itself.
There is no need to displacement.
Generating fur-like effect using displacement is another technique.

Hello again

Anyone please?? i did some research and found out that many peaple have the same issue but no one seems to have it figured out yet.

If the problem is "unsolvable" i would love to know it too 😄

Thank you

Put a white (lightness value of 220-240) sphere in your scene. Render this area with lowered settings. Take a color value from light side (but not from highlight) of the sphere and paste in cameras custom WB.

Why do you need 2 materials? All sides on your picture look identical.
Anyway if you still want 2 the easiest fix is PS. Select problematic areas, then Fill with content Aware option. Plus some Stamp tool.
P.S. In 3ds Max displacement can work as modifier (not like a part of material) so multiple materials on one object is not a problem.
Good luck.
P.P.S. Try Vray Fur- it has no seams.

Hi,
I have a similar issue. All renderings turn white, after saving the file. Vray for Sketchup 3.40.01
and sketchup 2017 on Windows 7. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Greg

@rspierenburg said:

Is there any chance the wall in the mirror has a reversed face? Could that cause the issue?

Good point! Indeed it was reversed, but fixing it didn't solve the problem. It still looks bad. For now, the solution I found for this, was to render the entire image, then reverse bump map and use render region to render only the mirror, and altough this does not fix the problem I can't even see why it happens to begin with, so it looks like I'm stuck with this solution.