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How's your Vray for SU 2015 Experience?!

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    sketchuh
    last edited by 20 Nov 2014, 10:01

    Hi you all, I just installed vray for sketchup 2015. Haven't done any render yet. is it faster and less crashes. or less weird bug experiences? can you share you vray for skechup 2015 experience here? thanks!

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      andybot
      last edited by 20 Nov 2014, 13:57

      Quite stable so far, and fantastic to be able to address more system memory. Also, nice to see 2 point camera working. I don't need to rely on "lens shift" guessing any more πŸ˜„
      I don't believe there is any speed improvement, per se. It's still the same vray 2.0 engine. With vray 3.0, there are some definite speed improvements, so hoping they develop that quickly for Sketchup.

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        valerostudio
        last edited by 20 Nov 2014, 15:51

        I agree. I have tested it on a few projects. In general you won't see faster performance because 64 bit doesn't really do that, it's like moving into a 3 bedroom apartment from your studio. More space to breathe, but doesn't make you a super human or anything. For speed we need to wait for 3.0 which from what I have read about 3.0 in Max, has faster render times.

        I am happy to not have to stress about memory crashes ever again and 2 pt cameras are HUGE for me. See you later lens correction tool in Photoshop! Thanks to the Chaos crew working directly with Trimble to make that one happen. It's nice to see Trimble recognizing the value of the software developers and working with them directly.

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          saberopus
          last edited by 20 Nov 2014, 19:22

          What was the issue w/ 2pt Projection before? I'd definitely had my share of wrangling with it, but I want to be clear on what was the source of that, and how it's now fixed! I too ended up using lens correction filters or tilt-shift guessing when the FOV/aspect ratio/projection type got too confusing...

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            dkendig
            last edited by 20 Nov 2014, 19:28

            lack of exposed functionality in the Ruby API for SketchUp. V-Ray For SketchUp 2.0 SR3 supports panning in 2 point perspective views in SketchUp 2015 only. 2013 and 2014 versions of SketchUp do not have the necessary information available to our plugin to support panning in 2 point perspective.

            Devin Kendig
            Developer

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              valerostudio
              last edited by 21 Nov 2014, 14:34

              Devin, Have you guys run any benchmark tests on 2014 and 2015 using the latest SP on both to see if there are speed improvements? I think we would all be interested.

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                sketchuh
                last edited by 22 Nov 2014, 08:53

                Nice!!!

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                  dkendig
                  last edited by 23 Nov 2014, 12:58

                  No, we haven't benchmarked it, but we DID start the next development cycle... πŸ˜‰

                  Devin Kendig
                  Developer

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                    ftellez
                    last edited by 27 Dec 2014, 16:46

                    has anyone had problems with shades of SU2015, when applied HDRI lighting? In this latest version of Vray, it is not properly showing me the shadows thrown SU2015.

                    appreciate the help

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                      valerostudio
                      last edited by 29 Dec 2014, 12:17

                      It depends on how you are setting up your lighting. If you use HDRI lighting, you should use the dome light. The Default Lights check box no longer makes the SU shadows show anymore. That's an old hack from 1.49

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                        cmoreink
                        last edited by 23 Jan 2015, 12:57

                        I have been running SU8 and Vray 1.6 for a very long time and had no issues with my renders. Couple weeks ago I found a tutorial on 2D vray proxies (high poly trees) and I made few 2D proxy trees which looked realy good but my SU and vray would freez or I would just get a bug splat. It was driving me nuts. So few days ago I upgraded to SU15 and vray2 and never looked back.
                        Once I convert my high poly proxy tree into 2D proxy it's 10 fold less in size πŸ˜„ and in this case SU is not being used when render because it goes straight from vray πŸ˜„
                        So I am very pleased with SU15 and vray2 πŸ˜„

                        cheers

                        my portfolio

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                          valerostudio
                          last edited by 23 Jan 2015, 15:52

                          Would love faster parsing times on large scenes. Other than that, I am a very happy customer.

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                            dkendig
                            last edited by 27 Jan 2015, 12:27

                            I wish they would add Environment Fog.... πŸ‘Š

                            Devin Kendig
                            Developer

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                              valerostudio
                              last edited by 28 Jan 2015, 13:29

                              My Wish List
                              Parsing times to rival VR4Max
                              Fur / Grass
                              VRayEdgesTex (SU would benefit from this greatly) http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/150SP1/vrayedgestex_params.htm
                              VRayXtraTex Pass (for an easy AO pass)
                              V-Ray Light material

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                                jiminy-billy-bob
                                last edited by 28 Jan 2015, 14:05

                                @valerostudio said:

                                Parsing times to rival VR4Max
                                VRayEdgesTex (SU would benefit from this greatly)

                                +1, these two are high priority on my wishlist.

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                                  dkendig
                                  last edited by 28 Jan 2015, 20:36

                                  whoops, I turned this in to a feature request thread! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

                                  Devin Kendig
                                  Developer

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