Translucent Materials - Curtain Sheer
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I'm currently having an issue trying to create translucent materials. I'm currently using Sketchup 8 with the most current version of Vray. I found that SU materials and Vray materials do not at work together and freezes my rendering right at the start. When I say freeze, I mean black screen with a white dot grid. This ONLY happens when I'm attempting to render translucent materials.
Does anybody else experience this issue? I tried changing the transparency under BRDFDiffuse to gray, but it either freezes or takes a crazy amount of time to render. I tried the 2sided material approach, but for some reason it doesn't want to work.
My last method was to play with refraction and fog. This worked but I do not need my curtains to refract light, lol. I changed the Diffuse transparency to gray and it rendered fine. I removed the refraction, kept the diffuse the same and it rendered fine but slightly slower.
Does anybody else have a suggestion to speed the rendering up?
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@faemow82 said:
I removed the refraction, kept the diffuse the same and it rendered fine but slightly slower.
now.. this sound quite "unusual"
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Refraction? For a thin object like a curtain?
I'd use the Two-sided material instead.
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@thomthom said:
Refraction? For a thin object like a curtain?
I'd use the Two-sided material instead.
I tried the 2-sided material strategy, but it didn't blend the two sides. For instance, red on the outside, blue on the inside, and it would render purple. I guess I will continue playing with it until it works, haha.
I think my last strategy would be to render my scene without the shear and render another scene with an opaque sheer and photoshop the opacity, lol.
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video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fct3B09QPY -
@bocomofo said:
video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fct3B09QPYYUP! saw it 5 times and followed it to a tee....my rendering would get stuck. GAHH!
I dont' want to restart a thread, but since I cannot find it. How do I increase the amount of white boxes while rendering? Is this related to how powerful my CPU, ram and Vcard is? I've seen demo videos with 6-8 rendering boxes.
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into the light cache set "passes" to the number of actual threads you have on your pc.
check your windows task manager to see if your pc supports 1, 2, 8, wathever.. threads -
You have to make sure Force 1 sided is checked and set the color to a light/med gray.
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