VRay and Sketchup crashing when Attempting to render
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Hi,
First off, I'm not totally sure if this is supposed to be here (since it is a Newbie who's asking, me) or in the plugins forum, since it is about a plugin, if its in the wrong forum, please move it! I have built out my model and have come to the point where I am attempting to render it with Vray for Sketchup. My computer is an Intel Core 2 Q6600 (Quad Core), I have 4 GB of RAM and i have 2 Nvidia 8800GTX's running in SLI (and an Nvidia 8400GS running my two other monitors). I am running Windows Vista Business x64 Edition. When I click the render button, from within my model (that is, inside of a room) I get the little waiting indicator, and then Sketchup just hangs indefinitely. I tried this on a simpler scene and it worked fine, so, I know the renderer is working, but my scene isn't terribly complex, so I'm not sure why it would be crashing... does anyone have any sort of tips on how this may be prevented?
Thanks!
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Does it crash or just hang? Could be that Vray is just taking a long time to process all the materials that may be applied to groups and components. Sometimes I run into situations where scenes can take 10 minutes or more to process before a render begins.
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Well... it doesn't crash per se... it just hangs there... so maybe I should just wait a little longer... Immediately when I push the button it shows me the waiting indicator (the little blue circle) and it doesn't pop-up the Render items box (the one that list out exactly what it is doing, such as assessing lighting and starting threads and such, and shows the progress bar)... then when you click on the window after that, it adds "(Not Responding)" to the title bar, but, I know that doesn't necessarily mean that it is actually not responding (Windows is notorious for this)... I've waited 15 minutes before its worked though, and it just sits there and thinks...
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That's not a crash - just unresponsive.
My guess is that you have material applied to group/components. That will cause allot of extra processing for VfSU. For optimal performance you should ONLY apply materials to faces.
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