we do all of our development for V-Ray for SketchUp on Macs. We use windows more than OSX, but we hop back and forth between them. I love this this machine, and have never found a Windows-only mobile device (technically Macs are PCs) that compares to it.

@joydeep70 said: With thea render there is a option called z clip. I think that will solve your problem. Thanks for the tip, however this is the VRAY forum not the Thea forum and the last post is over a year old.

I understood. Many thanks valerostudio, I'll try this.

Hi there, John: Perhaps if you could post an image or a .skp of your issue, folks might be able to better visualize a solution. Just as a start, are you making components or groups of your columns, so that they do not interact or affect the circle? Are you specifying the number of segments in the circle or using the program default? Do you use guidelines?

The issue has been resolved and will be in the next release.

Try here http://www.hdri-hub.com/ great HDRI files and they sponsor SketchUcation.

now also for iOS devices. Norbert

Help!what vray version is the best for sketchup 2013?thnk u

To get grass to show up in your renders, for the standalone plugin, you will need to start Maxwell Fire & go to Engine Settings and set Extensions to Enabled. [image: hHn0_MaxwellFireGrassSettingsEnabled.PNG]

@chon said: ???? Maybe your project is located near Tchernobyl ? Well, i've never seen that... Just a thing : Before playing with time zone in the shadows options, be sure that your project is well geo-located. For exemple, your project is located in London and you set your time zone on +12.00 UTC, if you render your scene at 12.00 (midday), the result will be 12.00 + 12.00 = 24.00 (midnight)... Thanx Chon for ur reply. i will check for the geo-location. And by the way my project is located in India.

My mistake Notareal

Yes, uploading is the bottleneck. But that's really the end user problem since the farm itself has a very speedy connection to the web. We had a problem downloading our files last week. They gave us a refund so it was solved rather well by Rebus. But the biggest advantage of the farm is incredible speed, this means you can switch on any channels you like along with Multiplight. The mxi file you download can be used to finetune the image and you can safe the image in any format. Great, I never realised before that a renderfarm is the way to go for larger projects that are well paid enough to spend the extra money. What kept me from going there before is that it sounded complicated. But it was actually very simple to set up. Francois

Thanks, Devin.

Hi everybody, I also have the same problem with that missing items in few recent projects. From what I heard, it looks like because of the GROUP/ COMPONENT issues. The fact after having some annoying of missing material layers, IES lighting data, I tried the most common way using copy/paste to a new plain file. So when I hit render with a new file, it turn out with nothing but the background !! Then I select all and put into GROUP. Wow..Objects got back in render frame again but material layers and lighting data still missing. So strange..Somehow it'a last solace than nothing !!

Instructions on how to add custom attributes to your internal sketchup report system. http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/04/adding-custom-attributes-to-your.html some one do this for me. thanks.

Because of the limitations of UVW mapping, you will either need to have a copy of the bump in your diffuse as a reference (just set the opacity to AColor and then set that to white and add your color layer as a 2nd diffuse under that). Or you can play with the UVW scaling in the texture itself.

@dkendig said: not as far as I am aware Ok. Thanx

@nervehead said: I'm fairly new, but are you adjusting the the number next to the GI? Sometimes I have that problem. I usually go into my Map setting under the GI, and turn the intensity of the sun down from 1.0 to about 0.3. might try that. Hi, Thanx for ur rply. Previously it was with default material. I applied material to it. it is looking nice now. But sun intensity 0.3 looks low. I m attaching image with 0.3 and 1.0 intensity (materials are jst for reference not final). go through it n tell mi ur suggestions. [image: DD4n_Intencity0.3.jpg] [image: hnQ7_Intencity1.0.jpg]

I believe Trimble is already working on 2014, I highly doubt they are going to spend even a second, trying to improve SU8