Since I created this post I have given up on Vray and moved onto using SUpodium. Sorry for the redundant thread, thanks to anyone who stopped to try and help.

@stefanq said: Yes, I had this issue in the past. My problem was that the face (surface) was reversed. Use the monochrome style to see if your floor have this problem. Cheers! Hi thanks for the suggestion already tried this. @eidam655 said: [questionable]i would say that the moment when a texture is loaded into the vray material editor, it doesn't make sense to edit the texture size in SU Material editor.[/questionable] the solution, imho, is to change the u/v repeat values in the TexBitmap slot. (so to make the texture bigger, the repeat number needs to be lower.) Hello thanks for the quick response, this solved my problem

Menu->Plugins->V-ray->Help->Debbuging->Regenerate all v-ray materials or else Menu->Plugins->V-ray->Help->Debbuging->Force sync for all materials Saludos

are you using the vray "raw" image option? try rendering normally, you can save as exr and do regions that way. I think the issue may be that with raw format, it breaks up the image into the tiles, so maybe it's trying to render a region of just that tile...

Very nice of you to ask. The more shared, the merrier, and folks can help more that way as well (with models, renders, etc.). Which is not to say that any help is needed. Makes more sense to me personally now that I can see more - the way it all works physically. Looks very nice, BTW. Whatever you have time for is swell, indeed.

the grass material looks pretty good. Could you share it?

valerostudio, so you suggest adding reflection layer, setting its color to ~50 and then using the Transparency in Diffuse layer?

There has been a little bit of a discussion from Chaos that they are considering moving the plug-in to an environment outside of SU in order to take advantage of 64 bit. The rumor is that Trimble has no plans of taking SU out of its 32 bit confines anytime soon.

or your lights are simply not bright enough; right-click any light and choose 'Vray for Sketchup' > 'Edit Light'. You'll get a panel where you can change its intensity.

Same material. Reflection and mapping changes. [image: TBdb_Balls3.jpg] bling1.skp

@eddiemoney said: Silly question though, when would I save a material? Wouldn't I have loaded it from a saved location in the first place? i think its not have always loaded from the first place, since when you create a vismat, vray will make it into zipped folder (vismat file and also the bitmap used will be included (diffuse, bump, displacement, etc.)), and you can put and load it from everywhere as long as you keep it on one folder.. regards, vd

could it be resolved by turning on or switching the type of the antialiasing filter in Image Sampler?

vyonyx strikes again!

There's a separate checkbox for affect reflections - could that be your issue?

V-Ray for SketchUp was developed by ASGVis - they where not 100% consistent with the UI labels that V-Ray for Max used. Now that ASGVis is part of ChaosGroup this might (hopefully) change.

LC is only calculated on the local machine - vray does not use DR for LC. For the irrmap - if you are using "incremental add to map" and using a frame rate 1/6th the speed of your final render, the calculation goes pretty quick, so shouldn't be too much of an issue to not use DR. Once you have the GI solution, then you can use your DR for the final renders. (make sure the saved maps are available for all your network.)

40th or Jenny had done this tutorial how to correct this here.. http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2011/09/tutorial-displacement-subdivision.html

@andybot said: lol, I didn't say it's not useful, you should just know that there are many things that are different with the current version. The manual is still the best place to start to understand the concepts, but I would also recommend looking at the video tutorials, as they explain a number of the newer features that don't show up in the manual and I think are pretty helpful. There's been a lot of frustrations - if you read through some of the posts in the vray section of this forum and the chaosgroup forum - regarding the slow pace of development of vray for sketchup. thanks

@eidam655 said: the thing is, that VRay for Sketchup does not support camera shifting. That is incorrect - there is a lens shift option in the camera settings. You have to do trial and error to get exactly the correct setting, but it's very possible. However - vray camera does not support SU 2pt perspective or orthogonal views.

That's an amazing take on the problem! In this way the single window pane can become a component to copy around the building... (and it takes care of material and uv settings too!) What would be the perfect distance between glass pane tho?