Yeah best to use vray material for this. [image: 5l9x_BASKET.jpg]

Thanks, this tip really helps me out, now I can render while I´, working...awesome!!! Keep it up Greetz

I cant download the file. PM it to me I can suggest a few things, first is that you need to empty the cache under the vray plguins menu. you can attach the .skp to the posts as well

Is the light and camera fighting for the same space? Just move the back or forward a little.

I use Twilight and Thea. Twilight is fast and easy to handle, you can even project images with a spotlight. Thea might be more complex but on the other hand you may save a lot of time through its neat features. I enjoy positioning the lights right in Thea while in interactive-GPU-render mode. Then I often use the relight function to leave the finetuning for afterwards. Really like this workflow.

Here's your atmosphere channel if anyone wants it... http://spiritsighs-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/9964121?offset=72#/dg5s5c

Seems Twilight Render makes that naturally! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCyZlS6xfRs

Nice links, thanks ThomThom regards

Interesting to see someone actually using toon. I think most SU folks find more control in exporting a 'linework' layer and compositing it in Photoshop. Saves all that time setting up toon materials also.

@sepo said: wow....this looks so promising. Could someone elaborate if the trees are going to fee pay for or part of library for existing users? They will be available for all licensed users.

Did you have a red material in your model? I would say that you can never really trust an override render to give you a true idea of your lighting in your final because light will be bounced off of materials and change the tones in your image. For example, a red floor would give off a bunch of redish light (unless you override it in the materials GI).

@brknbrkn said: I have read something about enabling colourtexture for transparency yes, this is the quick way. maybe is a problem of older versions. update it.

@cveti said: Hi all, I see that the topic is old, but I think that I can help somebody else, who just starts with VRay for SU. I'm a brand new newbie and I'm still busy with the manual of Vray for SU. I also just stuck with the translucent materials - I made tousands changes in order to get the proper look of the material, but the result was - just solid opaque material. Than I started to search the web and I found this helpful tut: http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=85 The MOST important here is that we don't needed to check the translucent checkbox! Strange, but it perfectly works! Then the result is great and what is needed!!! thanks a lot ...

Hi. Im facing an issue with my Vray renderer. It keeps showing me this message that i have attached as a scheenshot. Opened Ruby Console in the Windows menu and it showed me the following message : C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/live_scene/live_scene:267:in launch_render' C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/gui/commands:52:in block in module:GUI' C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/gui/commands:13:in call' C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/V-Ray for SketchUp/extension/ruby/gui/commands:13:in block in generate_command' SketchUp:1:in `call' However, I'm unable to understand what is wrong. Kindly advice

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Try clicking the "m" button (Mapping) next to the Reflection color and adding a fresnel effect. You are making the face a perfect mirror, and as such, you are getting the whole plane reflecting the color of the sky/background, and NOT a reflection on top of your diffuse color. Dave

that second image looks helpful. have you tried checking whether your geolocation and timezone are consistent? for example i remember having problems with sunlight and shading when i placed a model somewhere in Central Europe, but my timezone was set to UTC -7.

Thank you sir for these tips. I managed to do the curtain with displacement, not quite succesfully in vray for SU but Vray for max. Using the same map, Max does it quite fast too. Your chain curtain looks much more complicated. Mine is just ball chain. Thanks anyway. [image: e9v1_exhibit_1.jpg]

Also, if you have 1.49.01 you can move the reflection layer above your emmissive layer and you will get a light bulb effect. 1.05.30 cannot do this but I dont know why the heck anyone would still be using that version.