Thanks for your reply thomthom. Really enjoying learning the software and whilst my first attempts don't match up to some of those on here, I'm pretty pleased! Hopefully I'll be able to keep learning and contribute more to the forum in the future.

Problem solved. I added specular to filter slot and it worked. I used to put specular in slot that below reflection glossiness and specular worked there. So I thought this must be specular slot but I was wrong. I did more search on google. Find out that I can put specular in filter slot and then I tried glossiness. It worked fine.

Whatch Fernando's 4 part video on material creation. http://youtu.be/4KvYhq-dX_0

@iamel said: sketchup ON 64BIT . Oh how we all WISH

That was my experience, I was checking parsing time, and it ended up being about identical with layer off versus geometry deleted. There may be issues if there are extra materials that are in that off layer, it may be that processing materials could slow things down too. Found the thread. Man, I wish they would fix the old links! http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?62797-Lights-and-Render-Time Maybe I'll bump this for Fernando, I am very curious to get an answer from someone who knows...

Well, at least it seems you've found the problem. You shouldn't have to delete anything, just remove the texture map from the material. Otherwise, you should be able to right-click on the material and remove it. Want to post a screen capture of one of the materials that doesn't work?

@broomstick said: just to explain why we are asking for the irmap and light cache settings: those light blots are probably due to small sample values! yes . Increase quality of rendering and spots will be gone.

@andybot said: If you get a good bump map - you can use that either in the bump or displacement slot. You could also try playing with the noise and stucco texture in the vray materials textures. As far as color, you can create an additional diffuse layer to adjust color only, and use the Alpha color trick to make your first diffuse layer transparent (and use the bump map as your texture to control the mapping.) Hope that all makes sense Andy Thanks heaps Andy, Ill have a play tonight when i get a chance and let you know if it works... you wouldnt happen to have a vismat you could share so I can study it to be sure im doing it right? appreciate the response!

Thanks andybot and valerostudio ::sips frappucino:: mmmm... Okay, that's enough of this today, I wrote my huge chunk of text for the day, time to get back to programming!

Hello, as you wrote it, the last user manual covers only the new features since 1.48 versions of VRfSU. The previous one, complete, seems to be important. Downloadable on Chaos website.

thank you very much! i increased the sample value to 50 in the irradiance map menu and everything is fine now, i left all the settings on my usual values so the render time is still fast, with the 0/2 IM rate or the 3000 subdivs in LC the render time was too long

@06100143 said: try switching off your physical camera..^^,) No need for that. Just increase the multiplier for the HDRI map. 20-50 depending on the map. The reason is because an HDRI isn't as intense as the Sky light.

Oh thanks alot and so sorry haven browse enough to see the topic earlier on @thomthom said: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=38133

Hi Have you read the manual? Its really well explained there. To get the manual go to http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html download section.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html Go to the download section, then go to vismats. There are lots of great materials there, with bump and displacement maps. If you dont know what these are. Its time to read the Vray manual. It should also be in the download section. Good luck.

Hi Valero ! Thanks in fact i think you were true, the older parameters are overkill. And the only thing which was important for me was the absence of textsky. So i use Default without it but i Put Gi to an higher value than one because the render was too "grey". And it works fine. Thank you !

Andy many thanks for that seem to have cracked it now.

You are a legend mate I must say that the longer the break the harder it is to get bet to SU and VFSU !

I think the same things happens for files on the same computer... re-opening a file with vray materials it sometimes forgets vray material settings P.s: Devin, the ability to copy a Layer between materials would be awesome!!

There is no API to modify V-Ray settings.