2 pt views are not able to render in VR Make sure to go to your options - output - image aspect ratio - click get view aspect If it's a parallel (elevation) view this is only supported in 2.0 SketchUp sections are not supported in VR (use a plugin like Zorro)

I have the same problem IES spot lights don´t work in vray 2.0. I try to change the mesure units as i did in vray 1.49.01 and the result is nothing. any ideas to fix this?

@valerostudio said:

In VR 2.0 there is a pack scene feature. This copies all the files (HDRI, maps, IES, etc) into a ZIP file. Its located in the V-Ray menu.

Yep found it! its under Plugins- Vray - Pack Scene...
Great - makes life much easier.

@vagadesign said:

Would that cause the effect in my renderings though?

Yes, it can cause effects like what you see in your rendering. There's a checkbox to use UV, you want to have that box unchecked.

very cool, thanks for the share!

There have been other reported issues with vfs.rb :
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=41055
Have you checked these issues too ?

The error you show is because it is trying to find the 'entityID' of a reference that points at 'nil', rather than at a valid SketchUp entity 😕
Does this occur when SketchUp starts or when you try to use the script ?
To get a fuller error type:
load 'vfs.rb'
in the Ruby Console and post the error messages - if any... 🤓

That sounds like an old old bug from 1.49.01 I think. The best way to avoid this is to upgrade to 2.0 where a million bug fixes and improvements have been made.

I think this is a really good start. I think to get more realism you need two things, better materials and more modelling.

For example, what is the blue material supposed to be? Will the owner of the house really want a Blue house like that, does the material have any kind of texture to it? reflection?

Secondly, it looks as if this is more of a massing model. When trying to create a realistic rendering you need to think in more realistic terms. How would the soffit inside your overhang attach to the walls, is there any trim around the fascia, walls etc. It almost needs to get to the point where you model it as if you were building it for real (almost).

And finally, if you look at 90% of the best realistic renderings out there I would say that 60% of it is modeling/rendering and 40% is post processing in Photoshop.

But yeah, very good start, just start looking around you at different building materials and see the texture, reflection, refraction, gloss, and connections to other materials. And then create you own Vray Materials to match it or model it in sketchup.

Hope this helps,
Rob

thanks for your replies!!!really appreciated.

Make a copy of the model and use section slice.

using 'force sync all materials' then using Cleanup³ seems to help...

@peerman said:

Does this trick also work on OS X? Using the DR spawner on the local machine?

You can try using a 64bit spawner that is running on windows, but there is no 64bit spawner for OSX at the moment.

@peerman said:

@dkendig, busy updating to 3.0 😄?

😉 heading in that direction, yes. Had to wait until this service release was out the door before we moved on to some of the bigger changes

Sorry being an idiot, had accidentally deleted the source files. Doh!!!

the initialization of our plugin is the slowdown, we don't wait for xmlspawner to start up before allowing you to continue using SketchUp. The spawner is necessary if you do an RT render, so it runs in the background. Using DR with a spawner on your local machine would be pointless.

No..not loading any GI maps...but vray 2.0 worked for me....i guess older version ddnt support the materials well......anyways tnx evrybody for the responses...

no, sorry, we don't have a way to get it back to another 3d format once it's been converted to a vrmesh.

there should be a multi material for each proxy. There should be sub materials for each multi material, which are displayed when you select the multi material. You can edit each of these materials, by selecting each one in the list to the left, or you can change which material is applied to each material ID for the multi material.

Ok. I think I will just keep looking for different HDRI and continue experimenting. Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I already started thinking about the lack of shadows in my render but wanted to tackle the size problem first.

Thank you for helping me.
You have a very interesting blog and many great renderings.

Best regards
niX.

I'm guessing you have a material in particular that is hanging it up. You can choose which materials can be overridden, which will allow you to override all materials, and then enable each on individually until you find the one that is causing the huge slowdown. That could help people troubleshoot the issue with you.

The 2.0 beta is over, please update to the latest service release that is available on our website. This may have been addressed in the service release.