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    • soloS Offline
      solo
      last edited by

      Ah, blond moment.

      Sounds fantastic, if money was not so tight and Christmas so close I would be seriously considering getting Vray, I've been thinking about it for two years now.

      http://www.solos-art.com

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        @solo said:

        Ah, blond moment.

        Sounds fantastic, if money was not so tight and Christmas so close I would be seriously considering getting Vray, I've been thinking about it for two years now.

        Well, the next version still got quite a bit of work. And it'll be different beast than the current.

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        • EarthMoverE Offline
          EarthMover
          last edited by

          Thomas,

          Any parsing improvements for the future?

          3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @earthmover said:

            Thomas,

            Any parsing improvements for the future?

            Yes! Yes oh yes! breakthrough yesterday actually.
            As I mentioned earlier, materials on groups/components are no longer an issue. They don't make VfSU spend an insane amount of time parsing. And they doesn't ruin the smoothing of surfaces either.
            Groups no longer disappear either.

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            • EarthMoverE Offline
              EarthMover
              last edited by

              Great news! That was the one thing that was really in need of desperate fixing. Nothing is more productive than being able to perform myriads of 20 sec. test renders.

              3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
              Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
              Content Creator at Skapeup

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              • soloS Offline
                solo
                last edited by

                Brilliant, all the issues that most users of vfsu have been bitching about.

                I need to make a carboard sign 'will work for Vray' πŸ’š

                http://www.solos-art.com

                If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                • O Offline
                  ozzidora
                  last edited by

                  do you know anything about the transparent material problem?
                  thx

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @ozzidora said:

                    do you know anything about the transparent material problem?
                    thx

                    ? what problem?

                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                    • O Offline
                      ozzidora
                      last edited by

                      when you turn the transparency lower tahn 20%
                      in SKP, vray renders it no more transparent and a lot darker. Also if you
                      modify the transparency map in the Vray material editor.
                      I've found it happans around 20% of transparency.
                      i've got the 01.05.30 version of Vray

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                      • stefanqS Offline
                        stefanq
                        last edited by

                        Great news Thomas! πŸŽ‰

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @ozzidora said:

                          when you turn the transparency lower tahn 20%
                          in SKP, vray renders it no more transparent and a lot darker. Also if you
                          modify the transparency map in the Vray material editor.
                          I've found it happans around 20% of transparency.
                          i've got the 01.05.30 version of Vray

                          hm.. Got a screenshot?

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @ozzidora said:

                            when you turn the transparency lower tahn 20%
                            in SKP, vray renders it no more transparent and a lot darker. Also if you
                            modify the transparency map in the Vray material editor.
                            I've found it happans around 20% of transparency.
                            i've got the 01.05.30 version of Vray

                            hm... I'm guessing it's the backside of the faces you are seeing? You have applied the transparent material on one side? And use default on the backside.
                            VfSU renders the backside blue when the material is default. This is similar to what you should be seeing in SU as well. Using the default style in SU you should see the backfaces as blue.

                            Apply transparent material to both front and back.

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                            • O Offline
                              ozzidora
                              last edited by

                              ok it works fine thank you!
                              but the rendered material in the material editor is still darker
                              (sse attached image).
                              How can I assign material to backfaces?

                              thanks again

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                @ozzidora said:

                                but the rendered material in the material editor is still darker

                                I never trust the material editor's preview for anything. The UV mapping is far out of scale for what I'm making and the sphere is rarely a good object to preview my materials.

                                @ozzidora said:

                                ok it works fine thank you!

                                @ozzidora said:

                                How can I assign material to backfaces?

                                ❓ Now I'm confused. What worked if you did not apply the material to the backfaces?

                                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                • O Offline
                                  ozzidora
                                  last edited by

                                  excuse me but I'm working on a big model of a '700 baroque
                                  villa in Turin with a lot of colums and with garden ground up and down and it is possible I'm not understandable!
                                  I agree: the material editor preview is not reliable.
                                  what I mean is:
                                  -the material editor preview is uncorrect (dark)
                                  -the final render is ok (with trasparent material also to the backfaces)
                                  -I'd like to know how to assign a material to backfaces in a simple way (the method I've tried seems tedious (I don't explain it because it is tedious)
                                  -my english is not suitable for a BBC documentary about Vray...

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    @ozzidora said:

                                    -I'd like to know how to assign a material to backfaces in a simple way (the method I've tried seems tedious (I don't explain it because it is tedious)

                                    You can use this plugin: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18992&p=155759
                                    Use the Front-Face to Back-Face command. Anything you select will have their front face material transferred to backface. It digs into nested groups/components.

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                    • M Offline
                                      m48
                                      last edited by

                                      some clue about the release date? 😍

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Nope. It's done when it's done.

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                          majid
                                          last edited by

                                          is this useful? (worthy to translate?)
                                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=38987
                                          we have a topic here : http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=320&t=21870&start=45

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