[Plugin] V-Ray Tools

pipinek · 31 Aug 2014, 00:14

Greetings,

I am unable to get 'Load V-ray' option activated neither via toolbar nor the plugin menu.
Both of them are grayed out.

I was wondering whether the current release of Vray Tools (2.2.1 - ?) is compatible with Vray 2,0 on Su 2014.

I will I appreciate any elucidation on the above.
Thank you in advance.

thomthom · 1 Sept 2014, 20:04

It should be. However, if the button is disabled it probably means that V-Ray is loaded.
Make sure that V-Ray for SketchUp is disabled under Preferences > Extensions.

pipinek · 1 Sept 2014, 21:14

@thomthom said:

It should be. However, if the button is disabled it probably means that V-Ray is loaded.
Make sure that V-Ray for SketchUp is disabled under Preferences > Extensions.

I thank you very much.

It did work once.
Once deactivating Vray via Preferences - Extensions the two Vray toolbars were loaded.

A Load Button within Vray Tools became grayed and it remained thus after I closed (clicking on red close button)them. The Load Button (Vray Tools) remained desactivated-grayed.
In order to recall Vray toolbars I had to do it manually (View - Toolbars, etc).

I find that there is no possibility to switch an appearance of the Vray toolbar using Load Button of Vray Tools. Once they become activated the mentioned button keeps remaining gray - disabled.

Is this a 'normal' case or is there something here, between a chair and a screen?

thomthom · 4 Sept 2014, 11:22

Once V-Ray is loaded you cannot unload it during that session.

Once you have disabled VfSU in Preferences it should not load when you start SketchUp.
Then you can use V-Ray Tools to load SketchUp on demand and it will remain loaded for the duration of that session.

Are you seeing that VfSU is disabled along with the Load V-Ray button in V-Ray Tools?

pipinek · 9 Sept 2014, 02:05

Thank you for your response.
In that case all function as programed. I thought that pressing a Load Button could load and UNLOAD the VfSU.
Indeed, the Load Button is active after starting SU, before loading VfSU and become gray/inactive once the Vray toolbars are loaded.
I have simply expected the Load Button to unload VfSU.

My best regards.

Aklydian · 24 Oct 2014, 19:13

Hi Thomas,

I'm trying to use your V-Ray Tools plugin to match Sketchup's viewport resolution and aspect ratio to v-ray's so that I can export a linework image and composite it with my v-ray render. I take the resolution and aspect ratio numbers from the v-ray output screen and put them into their appropriate spots on the v-ray tools plugin safe export menus.

The image exports, but it doesn't match the V-ray render.

Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Richard

jpmorla · 31 Oct 2014, 05:48

Hello Thomas,

When I try to use the camera tool to set up the aspect ratio, I loose my 2 point perspective that I have set up for my scene. Am I missing something?

tt_su · 1 Nov 2014, 18:09

hm... I'm not sure is aspect ratio is compatible with 2pt perspective... I'd have to check.

josephkim626 · 11 Nov 2014, 07:35

Been Loving this plugin!

arch12pi · 17 Nov 2014, 17:32

hi thomtom, can you fix my problem
i cant see vray in windows/preferences/extensions or view/toolbars
please check my error , thanks you thomthom

arch12pi · 17 Nov 2014, 18:30

please check my problem

staedler1822000 · 28 Nov 2014, 01:12

hi thom, i cant get the tt vray tool to work on my sketchup 8 installed on windows 7 64bit.. i tried to install it in sketch up 8 on my 32bit windows 7 computer(all thesame setup like on my 64bit computer) and it all goes fine..i cant figure it out what seems to be the problem. i need your help please.here are some attachment of the tt vray tool windows on sketchup

rudii · 6 Jan 2015, 20:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You don't even know how much your work helped me. Wish you all good for the New Year

kalu · 2 Feb 2015, 04:06

Hi ThomThom:

I make the renders in vray for sketchup already I need the lines export from sketchup to blend in photoshop.I save all the viewports for the renders but I don't want to render again, how the plugin works and what I have to do? I appreciate any help.

Gonzalo.

Lummoxcz · 27 Apr 2015, 14:25

Hi all,
I have a question - how can I see correct view in SU when I change "Physical Camera setting / Override focal lenght /set to 17? Is there some way how to see in viewport the same aspect which will match with the render?
Thank you very much for an advice!
M.

thomthom · 27 Apr 2015, 15:34

If you override the SU camera in VfSU then SU won't reflect that. If you want them to match you need to set the focal length in SU.

Lummoxcz · 27 Apr 2015, 20:27

@thomthom said:

If you override the SU camera in VfSU then SU won't reflect that. If you want them to match you need to set the focal length in SU.

Thank you!

rudii · 6 May 2015, 23:20

Dear thomthom, could you tell me please where I can find a tutorial how to use your plugin? I've got vray 2.00.25244 and can't make my viewport match the render. I would appreciate it a lot (it is just killing me...)

M.

skavan · 16 May 2015, 22:39

Hi,

Odd but hopefully related question:

I have a large SKP file with loads of both v-ray and non-vray materials in it.
I note, when I do a distributed render, that it grabs relevant bitmaps from the Network share that the material was loaded from.
Now, I want to use this file on another network. I (at least I think I) need to:

Find those materials within the project that are v-ray materials.
Copy these materials to a location in my new Network environment.
Replace the impacted materials with those copied in #2.

Obviously #2 is easy...but how do I do #1 and #3? I can write basic ruby if that helps...your plugin obviously could be the engine, but doesn't offer #1 or #3 as far as I can tell!

Thanks.

g.moggel · 17 May 2015, 11:11

Hey guys, hey thomthom.

Your plugin seems to work very well and i use it since a few years. i have a question though regarding the change of the aspect ratio and connected change of focal lenght.

in the 3 attached images you can see the original scene without aspect ratio scaled but defined by my window dimensions.

see the focal length number down below it says 24mm. if i change the aspect ratio now to 16:9 and display the focal length again you can see it changing to 10mm. It kinda squeezes the original side into the new smaller side and also changes the focal length to an unnatural value.

third image shows what happens if i enter 24mm again.

Is there any formula i can go by to get the "real" focal length? I want to keep using real camera values.

Cheers,
Mo