I probably wouldn't trust a generically created sketchup camera too much. If you were in ortho mode or 2 point perspective that could certainly throw things way off. Even if not, though, there's nothing native within SU to determine where the focus point should be. And even if you find a way to get a focus point, will that translate through a .3ds file? I don't know. SU's ACT camera plugin doesn't have an option for focal distance. I can set a focal distance with my Maxwell render plugin but it doesn't translate through .3ds.

-Brodie

Edit: I agree wholeheartedly with Earthmover. You should be using perspective to navigate. And 3ds Max's SU importer is quite nice. It preserves all of your components as 3ds Max instances and textures translate very well. There was a SU importer for 2010 but I think it had to be downloaded separately whereas it's integrated into 2011.

totally agreed

It's blue because your sunlight GI is going to be bluish in color, especially on white faces. See this video which explains how to reduce the bluish toning. http://youtu.be/cPxtadpyM20

I tried making something simple. And lo and behold, 100% cpu usage was reached! There must have been something dodgy with that previous file.

This was the bugged, final render that took 3 days to output.
hesus_9_hard.jpg

This is a just for fun SU output render
jesus,house_resive.jpg

This proves that the previous file was bugged and that everything is working back to usual.
100%.png

Thank you!

Try first to disable "Refractive GI Caustics" under indirect illumination roll-out. Looks like caustic artifacts.
Cheers!

I couldn't find that tutorial I was thinking of but here is one that's a bit of a 'cheat'. http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-v-ray/glass-reflection-effect-sketchup-and-v-ray/

The other thing I was able to determine was that my edge length was set very low (4) for the resolution I was rendering (4k pixel wide render). As soon as I turned it up to 10 it was much faster calculating. Can you guys share what settings you typically use in order to get the best speed and best looking displacement. I know its all dependant on the map and what you are looking to get from it, but in general for a high res image. Is it something as high as 10 or higher?

ThomThom

Brilliant piece of info

Possible use as disp for roof tiles, if you can calculate the increase in height of the plane?

Roof tile disp

I would use pipe along pathhttp://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=1709 and give the line a very small outer dia and 0 inner dia. Then apply a dark gray or black material to it. The other way would be to mess around with a toon material, but you still need a face of some sort to apply the texture to.

@vidy said:

hello ray, maybe you can check this one out:

http://alexhogrefe.squarespace.com/photoshop-landscape-tutorial/

regards,

That is a really good link! thanks alot!

I'm still curious about making this water in vray. Anyone?

Turn the faucet off you are wasting water.

no problem my interest level is also high. i hope not my cholesterol

@ Dave : Vray is really vary powerful render engine you must try hands on it.. you will get awesome results in vray.
I even use vray with 3ds max, and now i m trying it in sketch up.. its gr8... you can definitely work on animation using vray.

@ hvan : Thnks a lot, i worked on it and achieved wat i was looking for.. thnks again..

Thats how I believed it worked. But I maybe wrong

I would use a night HDRI for the environment and GI. The rect lights in your building may need to be turned up in order to get the glow you want. My suggestion is to play with a test model using just a box with a 'window' cut out and try the methods described above to see what gets the effect you are looking for.

Nice FREE HDRIshttp://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

I recommend you contact ChaosGroup support on this matter as they should be made aware of any crashes related to their product.

Just thought id give you all an update, got 2 new computers (one just for renders) and vray now seems to work for me all fine on both computers 😄

No idea what the problem was though... 😞

More tonal adjustments in Photoshop. This is the final image.

Chapel_Final.jpg

Hi,

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