Vray for Sketchup has a lot of bugs and error.

sawhack

why does Vray for Sketchup has a lot of bugs?? does this problem has any solution or being solved by team chaosgroup?? here a list of problem i always experienced:

Failed to create dump file error 183 then sketchup will stop working and close
Verify if you have enough space on TEMP.. even though I always do disk cleanup and have a lot of computer memory..
rendering suddenly stop and produce black box in rendered image. this time the error no. 2 above will appear.
cannot work on layers, components, scene etc.. I tried to combined use of layers and scene and when I turned off a layer the layer that should be on disappear on product images.
causing sketchup to stop when have displacement materials.
if you have a very very big sketchup file at least 60 MB above vray couldn't work on it, when you click render then Vray status bar will say Please wait Vray is currently processing your request. you'll wait for 30 minutes then no Vray frame buffer will appear. then you can explore the model again.
Vray box will appear and would say failed to process your request
Materials suddenly altered or being replaced with another materials in your model.
when you're doing Material setup, or applying any reflection or bump, the window toolbar doubled up e.g. you have double diffuse, option, maps without you doing anything on it.
Sketchup bug splat though its rare for me to experience it unlike what i mentioned on error 1.

I do maintain my sketchup model clean, I never applied layer again on my model, I keep my skp file very small for me maximum is 50 MB but still experienced those said bugs. sometimes applying scenes also make a lot of bugs for me. components make can reduce your file size but it can cause a lot of error when preparing your model for rendering.

What you guys thought?? do you experienced all of it, when you're out of time and already prepared model for rendering then vray didn't cope up with you?? does this problem also exist on other chaos group Vray products. Please help us i'm tired of repeating materials set up again and again.. if you have more error that i didn't mentioned you can share it here.

andybot

There are plenty of known bugs, the last release (2 years ago!) was a bit rushed and there are still some bugs left. One suggestion I would make that's been part of my workflow is to only use vray for SU with only one Sketchup window open. If you have multiple windows open with vfsu, a lot of conflicts crop up, especially related to the material editor.
Yes, vfsu runs out of memory with very large files. Try to turn off layers of things that are not visible in your render to help with the amount of geometry that vfsu has to work with.

rspierenburg

And Vray will continue to have memory issues until such time as a) Trimble releases a 64bit version of Sketchup or b) Chaos releases an external rendering program that can take full advantage of 64bit systems.

The memory issue is not that of Vray, but rather of Sketchup. This is why, for larger models, its best to render directly to a file (.exr)

But I do agree that beyond that there are still a number of issues that Chaos needs to correct on their end as well.

Rob

sawhack

I think using layer is a buggy with Vray because when i deleted all the layer I have, I can now render my model. Layer has another issue with scenes and Vray. If i turned off a layer on another scene then on the product image the supposed to be turned on layer disappear. I hope chaos group now working on this bugs, and I think what causes much delayed on their product update is because theyre waiting for another sketchup product which fixes especially in counting polygon.