mmh... i wouldn't call this blurry or unsharp - the resolution is low, but anyway... reflective materials need something to reflect to look good/realistic. In your picture example it's only the skylight that is reflected and the only object that defines the reflection in the tutorial image is the person standing on the left. In your image this reflection is also there, but it's only slightly visible on the border of the image and your material is less reflective. The preview scene has a frontlighting which produces stronger reflections, but even there you get not much reflection. Without knowing the other values i would say at least, that lowering the bump value will give you more defined reflections. I think your bump value is much too high with 73%. Normally you should keep it below 30%. A too high bump value will darken the material and can produce unrealistic results. If you need strong bumps it's better to use normalmaps or displacement.

1.49.01.. i have maybe a big scene.. its about 160MB. and i cant render.. still writing.. weve encountered an error.......

good point, thanks

Nice ! Can't wait to see the whole guitar

you may change the background, or also put some hdr maps in the reflect slot, or maybe create some coloured light sources which are invisible to camera but affect reflection..

@valerostudio said: What is the version number? Sorry forgot to mention that, Sketchup v. 8, V-ray v 1.49

Clem, I would direct your problem to the Twilight forum or their support. Rendering time can change dramatically due to lights, materials & model complexity. Good luck!

@dkendig said: Have either of you tried our 1.6 beta, or tried SketchUp 2013 (Make or Pro) that was released today? I can't recall if it was one of our bugs, or a SketchUp bug with their observer system, but I believe this may be resolved now. If you still have the issue with our beta, you can supply us with an example scene and a bug report (send an email to vfswip@chaosgroup.com), we could test it ourselves, or you could install those updates and try it yourself. Just as a heads up, we are rather busy at the moment with our beta, so I wouldn't expect a speedy result from us testing. However it is tested, if the end result is that a bug exists in our product, please let us know so we can have this resolved in our next public release! Dave, I sent you at vfswip@chaosgroup.com a 19 megabyte Sketchup file and the email address rejected it: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: vfswip@chaosgroup.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain chaosgroup.com by mail.chaosgroup.com. [195.34.120.71]. The error that the other server returned was: 552 5.3.4 Error: message file too big Do you have another point of contact?

Oh right, sorry about that. I'll take the link off, it might be the website. Any ideas on a file-share link?

@luigi755 said: @grega22 said: Does anyone know anywhere else to download kerkythea? Website constantly says "This site has been temporarily disabled, please try again later." I try to access the site and gives me an Error 401... Only the kerkythea forum at http://www.kerkythea.net/forum/ does work at the moment. No file ropository. Giannis is working with the updated site, but it's unfortunatelly a slow work (as most of the time is used on Thea render developement). If your friend/collequoe/... has a kerkythea installation pack, maybe they can share it. But please keep in mind that even as kerkythea is a free software, it not a public domain/GPL/..., and distribute it only in small a scale (unless you get a permission from giannis). EULA denies a mass distibution of Kerkythea via web and so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wLTy9ee0yc

Have you tried rendering a very simple scene (ie a box)? If that works then I would assume it would be something in your model. The next step would be to set override materials in Vray settings to see if its one of your textures that is causing the issue. If it still will not render then perhaps take a look if lighting is causing an issue. It also will help to post some more information regarding version of sketchup and vray and computer specs etc. Rob

@panixia said: thank you. that's pretty nice stuff.. in addition i discovered that i'm just logged to it as if i used it in the past, but can't remember when or why i did it! This happens to me so often, it doesn't bother me anymore

thanks, HDRi probably is the way to go with night scenes... i still have to find my workflow though, so thanks for the tip

1.10 version released...

Hi,I meant to simply a path drawer with nodes on the lines.Like using to draw a mask.You can add nodes and move it with line and modify to any deformed arc to match your desire easily.Like in Photoshop or After Effects or any kind of vector design program.

save your rendered in VFB history, klik on the icon "H" (at right bottom VFB), VFB history window will appear, then klik on the save icon. when you open sketchup again and open VFB history your file still in there and can be reload for region rendering.

Great!