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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
          last edited by

          @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?

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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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