do you have a test scene you can share?

Fixing the greyout issue and many of the crashes is a pretty neat update. It is after all a Maintenance Release - one cannot expect major features from that. Btw, there is an announcement thread here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45516

What is the name of the render ? Edit AAAh that is the section V RAY

sorry for my english ... I'm Italian ahahahah pessimo=bad

I've attached my leather material for you. Just change the diffuse1 color to edit the leather color. When you import into SU you will see a BW image and no color on the leather in the model, this is how you adjust the scale of the bump map. Currently, this is the only way to visually do this. Its one of Fernando's workarounds. Adjust the reflection and bump as needed. Leather.zip

There's quite a number of things that could be the problem. Since you say the image came out dark, my guess would be that the irrmap file you have and the view you are trying to render don't match. Try saving your irradiance map from the scene you are trying to render. If you are loading from another machine or from another scene, you may have issues using a saved map.

thanks for the reply valero, what I'm looking for is kind of bespoke so if I gotta pay I gotta pay, will be absorbed within the fee, using google images for free is too risky what with copyright and what not

Huge bugs in this area. We wait patiently for a new release........................................................................................................................................................................................ and wait ............................................................................................................................................................................................. still waiting ...................... My best advice about vispots is to make sure you have the latest 1.49.01 or you are going to have issues loading vispots that were created in that version and you are using an older release.

I've threatened to update it a few times now. It does have some use, but in the end it's just the material editor with a larger preview. If there was an online repository that could have materials submitted to it like the google warehouse, then it would have more of a purpose. Given it's current level of functionality though, it falls fairly low on the list of priorities. I believe it was made before 1.05.29 was released, so it definitely needs some love soon if it's going to continue to survive. The vrimage tool was updated after the latest VfS release, so it should work fine with VfS generated vrimages.

I don't believe our lens effects hit the render time much or at all. You will definitely have to use Photoshop (or Gimp if you don't like spending money) in the meantime though.

@dmiller13 said: Vray version - 1.48.96 You're using an old version. Update to 1.49.01.

@holmes1977 said: @nomeradona said: @holmes1977 said: @solo said: Recent animation using biased engine, 22 minutes total render time http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129899/Produce.mov (should play online, let me know if it does not) Yup it plays........impressive 22min!!!!!!! Im sold on it Pete. I dug up Thea yesterday and started doing some tuts. Just got sick of the limitations of using a renderer within SU. are we on the same boat.. hating poly limitation here and doing workarounds. whilst im asking vray to do a stand alone, so that it wont be dependent with su shortcomings. Hi Normeradona I think we are in the same boat. The reason for the work around was the high poly limitation. I dont want to have to rely on work arounds. Like you, I think the fix for Vray is to have a standalone app for Sketchup. Dont think this will happen though. Kind of goes against the gain of Vrays development direction with Rhino. I would imagine to develop a new Vray standalone for Sketchup would take sometime. But here's hoping I'm wrong. I love seeing how you are doing with Thea Render. Has really inspired me to learn it. i hope they would change their strategy especially when su was acquaired by trimble. so far im impressed with thea..

Hi Can you tell us what settings you are using. for example "Caustics Tab" -Max photons -Multiplier -Max Density -Search Distance "Environment...GI Color Tab -Caustic Subdvis -Photon radius have you followed this tutorial step by step? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbHdi5bEdlI

For renders like these, I think you exaggerated . I mean, why do you need bumps, displacements ,etc. when you barely can see them . A background would do wonders though ! Take care !

@valerostudio said: Dont load VISOPTS - if you are using a different version than the vispot was created with, you will have a lot of issues. There were major changes in the 1.05 to 1.49 versions. Just click the reset defaults on the options panel and try that. I think its the visopts that are your issue. Valero Point taken, a few of my renders were running (ie going through the motions) but not actually doing the rendering, then when setting up the scene manually with exact same settings it was running fine, seems like vray is actually quite buggy and we're really at the front end of it as a piece of software

I work with the 1.05, I haven't ID slot like the 1.49 version.

@valerostudio said: The quickest way to get an existing site into your reflections is to take several shots with your digital camera, stitch them together in Photoshop, then create an arched plane in SU behind the camera and map the image onto it so that it will appear in your reflections. Hey Valero when you put it onto the plane how do you get the scale correct? can you position the texture at all?

Use an HDRI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-TxEzW4sQ&feature=plcp

@andybot said: @coremaster110 said: @Solo Hmm... problem is that jpeg does not support transparency. You can set a transparency mask in your vray material options. oh

try un-selecting the alpha channel in the vfb options. That should give you an exr without transparency.