Hi All the video's are on youtube.....just search ASGVIS and you will find them. The materials should be avalible at the chaousgroup website soon. I hope.

They got my account fixed yesterday. I can see all the forums now. Have not tried to post yet though.

hi valerostudio, thanks for your tips, very much appreciated. i´ll try to play with material and model, and we´ll see. cheers!

I would make sure to have the latest 1.49.01 installed. Now DR does work with this version, but from experience, and the word on the street is that its buggy and might give you issues.

Giving up for a while, nothing I've tried so far has done anything. The only way I can do it is to look more down at the model. It's very aggravating for me right now!

There has been some discussion about this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=37586 it is fixable. I suggest you follow the advice in this thread and post there in the future if you still have problems...

@thomthom said: Are you using the latest version? 1.49.01? Pretty sure I am... I have no trouble with rendering another project but this one won't work..so I am guessing that it's errors in this file?

@thomthom said: Avoid using pure black and pure white - they are extreme colour values that can interfere with proper calculation of light. yes, sir, and will change it tonight, thanks thomthom

The textures on other layers rely on the mapping from the diffuse layer. If you don't have a texture in diffuse, you will not have control over the mapping in SU. The best way to have a texture in diffuse that won't show up in your render is this way: In your diffuse layer, next to transparency, select the little "m" button and choose the "TexAColor" and change that color to white (100% transparent.) Add another diffuse layer to your material and make that the color that you want to render. This way, you can position the material in SU, and the maps in the other layers will correspond. (I would have linked you to the post on the vray for sketchup forum, but it's not available, and I couldn't find a description of this method in this forum. Anyone else know where there's a thorough discussion of this on sketchucation?) -Andy

@thomthom said: Window > Preferences > Extensions - Select V-Ray for SketchUp Version information will then be listed. Thank you Thomthom, it's obvious.

@06100143 said: try this tutorial... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbHdi5bEdlI hope this would help you. yeh - that's great - found it after looking for a while. Think i dled the model from the ASGVIS site to follow along but that went down:( wonder if Chaos Group is going to fix the forum and all the materials and tutorial links would have dled a lot more had i known:(

Contact support.

yeap if i go to: enviroment - GI color/Gi backgrnd - map - and set texSky it's the same thing....

Hi amalskaer, are you using any bump maps? it seems not... they may help make your render look more realistic. also, a bit of dirt on the lower part of walls and that stairway would greatly improve realism. furthermore, walls aren't generally stuccoed all the way to the ground... check out some options for plinths on the stairs, the black part looks like paint...is that the intention? the front and top of the tiles don't match. this kind of thing will cancel out any level of realism a render may have.

i guess read the manual. if you are telling us about new materials and everything. The way i see it is you have the very old one. how to apply material, create material etc. are there in the new manual.

Rojy....i try with the visopt...and it didnt work...it didnt make the render...i think this problem is strange....thankyou for the vispot and your time...

You're experiencing crashes? ("problems" is ambiguous, not much anyone can help with there. You need to be more specific.) Crashes and errorlogs is something you should report to ASGVis support.

Thanks for the input. At the moment I think I've got an ok workflow going from SU to 3ds Max and using Vray there. I'm at the early stages so we'll see what snags I run into. My biggest concern is materials. If something changes and I have to swap out models, I'll have to reassociate every material on every object again. I'd thought about breaking up my whole SU model and making it all one big group before importing to Max so I'd just have to reassociate the materials on one big object but then I'll lose any benefit from instances and layers. -Brodie

Yep, it looks like your aspect ratio is off a little bit. You need to unlock and reset it to match. Sometimes if you move a toolbar or add toolbars it changes your AR and you need to reset it to the correct ratio. Also, there is a current discussion on the V4S forums discussing the resolution your are talking about. 9000 pixels seems like overkill for anything that's not going to be published.

Doesnt the DR Spawner have the option of sharing the textures to a networked location? Is this not working in the current build?