I finally got back to this work and started with the Catmull Clark advice. That made a tremendous difference - it made everything very crisp and clear, like taking gauze off the picture. Now I'm going to systematically try the other suggestions.

I'll report back later but I wanted to stop in and say thanks - that was a real help.

Hi
http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?topic=9690.45

Download arqestevez1 dusk scene.
Going through someone elses model and settings is allways agreat way to learn.

Good luck.

If you want to edit the vray material in Material Studio (assuming the material has .vismat as extension) you 'Right-click' on Scene Material and select 'add material -> add vraymtl' it will then pop up a browser box where you search for your .vismat material.

If you want to open it in VraySU you open the material editor and once again right click on Scene Material and select 'add material -> add vraymtl'.

Edit: Sorry...it should be right click and import new material'

Hope that helps,
Rob

I just checked my scene settings and the entourage layer is on on both scenes I rendered. You're right, always good to ask the obvious.

@ebraahim said:

hi guys when u dont have a su texture to size it, how u guys add bump map to it? i use the bump map as my texture and reduce the color mutiplier to 0.01 becuz its not possible to change diffuse color seperately from its texture
how you do that?

Set a texture in your diffues, as you say you do, then add an white TexAColor map to the transparency slot. That will make that layer invisible when rendering, but still visible in SketchUp.
Then you add a second diffuse layer underneath with just a plain colour - this layer is what you'll see when you render.

(Note that you use a TexAColor map type in the transparancy slow - no just setting the colour.)

Hi
Here is the scene that I use for the video

http://www.mediafire.com/?l8xyr3nqhca419b

Best

The problem with exclude object form the reflection is that you will exclude all the object.

Attached a sample rendering of how it came out

Wine Bottle Test.jpg

I'm not an expert on this, but what machine are you running on? How many CPUs or cores and how much RAM would be the first relevant questions.

I'm on a quad core machine with 6GB of RAM and I notice a significant slow down in performance when turn on shadows for example. So, it may just be that your model is taking a lot of processing power.

If you are using a jpeg you will have to manually cut out the background and save it as a png (with transparency). Once you have done that when using an image tick the check box marked 'use colour texture as transparency' under the diffuse rollout in the material editor.

that worked for me!

hyper-threading if supported by the CPU is activated and controlled within the Bios.

Adjusting the gamma makes the image quality better. However, that white line is still there. Thanks for the ideas.

I'm not convinced vrimage is useful for me.

thanks a lot, I'll try it as soon as I can. Now my demo version is finished, but I'll try it on PC. It seems very usefull to get a library of ready-made materials.

@judyy said:

with vray 1.48

Latest version is 1.49.01

also see that your displacement image to not be inverted (negative) or if the software have this feature. Also, see if displacing direction in material is not negative(maxwell render accepts this feature).

If you have a 360 degrees environment image you can place that in the Background slot under Environment. Remember to spesify which type of environmap you have. (spherical, cubical etc.)

Okay. We have a V-ray subforum down on the index page - I am moving your topic there for better exposure now.

(I do not use V-ray myself but I know that reflections/refractions can be done there of course)

@johns said:

Hi thomthom,

I did download those vismat materials you mentioned. But I don't know how to apply those materials in vray for SU.
When I applied material texture, it's only taking jpegs and not vismats. am a newbie in vray, sorry about t hat.

Thanks.

You must use the V-Ray material editor to load the vismat.

Just the texture files when I Export.

When I work in SketchUP I create a file that has the model and all of it's textures in it for organizational purposes. The file for this model has 4 wood textures (JPGs). When I Export it as OBJ the file shows the SU model and 77 textures - all instances of the original 4. This shows up in the file folder, not in the Materials panel or anywhere else in SketchUp. But when I open the model in modo I have 77 textures in the Shader Tree and 77 texture polygon groups in the Statistics panel - so the file madness is coming along with the model.

I can rebuild this model easily but my curiosity wants to know why this is happening. I can make a simple cube, copy it and distort the 6 faces and get nothing but the original textures when I Export so it has something to do with this particular model.

Thanks for your input so far.

@unknownuser said:

i draw personal inspiration from MIR (http://mir.no/) when it comes to enterage, i think they have it spot on, u can even see eddie murphy in a couple of renders.

Sean - thanks for this link! very inspirational!