Use an HDRI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-TxEzW4sQ&feature=plcp

@kingsi said: Hi Adam. Was going to ask these questions via pm but figured they might be of interest to others. Sliders were not on the link so could not change time of day Had some problems with element z-ordering in some browsers. Should now be fixed. Try again. @kingsi said: Does your lightup logo always have to be on the player. For example if I were to use it and have it on my site or offer to embed on clients site would want my logo or theirs (sorry my bad) When you export, you can set any watermark image you like AND set a website to go to when the user clicks on the watermark. The default is the LightUp logo and a website of http://light-up.co.uk, but you can set both to anything you like when exporting. @kingsi said: Apart from that I am loving a. the help you have shown and just as importantly b. the quality of the plugin Many thanks Simon Glad to hear. Adam

Hello everyone This topic here is a bit older, but I have exactly the same problem. First .. sorry, my english isnt the best Using Sketchup8 and Vray newest version. I'm trying to create a photorealistic carpet (Lambswool) as well as a stone wall inside a building. Usually it works fine, but not this time. So note .. everything is seperated grouped, that shouldnt cause my problem. I was trying to render my scene to see how the displacement works. (using displacement and bumpmap for my carpet). But when I render, the carpet material still looks flat, nothing to see of displacement. Really my first thought was 'its not grouped' .. but it is. So the problem must come from another wrong setting I did or so. I'm wondering that I cant set any multiplier on my displacement map. Where is this button?? It should be right below the texbitmap button, but look at my screenshot ..theres no multiplier. Tried to play with the displacement settings after it didnt work, but cant get it to work. Displacement settings:# 8 (tried up to 80) Max sub: 256 Edge L.: 4,0 So changed values several times in order to get it work finally. But nothing happened. Carpet still looks flat and does not show any of displacement. Rendering takes long, but I know it has to when I use displacement, so thats not the point. I really guess the multiplier causes my problem. But how to change multiplier value when theres no button for? Or is it hidden somewhere else in the new version of Vray so I just didnt find it yet? Thanks guys, hope you can help me to fix this .. I dont get it to work since 2 days - 2days/ 12hrs per only busy with one problem and dont get my work done best wishes! [image: 416c_lammwolle.ds-settings1a.jpg]

@holmes1977 said: @nomeradona said: @holmes1977 said: @solo said: Recent animation using biased engine, 22 minutes total render time http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129899/Produce.mov (should play online, let me know if it does not) Yup it plays........impressive 22min!!!!!!! Im sold on it Pete. I dug up Thea yesterday and started doing some tuts. Just got sick of the limitations of using a renderer within SU. are we on the same boat.. hating poly limitation here and doing workarounds. whilst im asking vray to do a stand alone, so that it wont be dependent with su shortcomings. Hi Normeradona I think we are in the same boat. The reason for the work around was the high poly limitation. I dont want to have to rely on work arounds. Like you, I think the fix for Vray is to have a standalone app for Sketchup. Dont think this will happen though. Kind of goes against the gain of Vrays development direction with Rhino. I would imagine to develop a new Vray standalone for Sketchup would take sometime. But here's hoping I'm wrong. I love seeing how you are doing with Thea Render. Has really inspired me to learn it. i hope they would change their strategy especially when su was acquaired by trimble. so far im impressed with thea..

@andybot said: @coremaster110 said: @Solo Hmm... problem is that jpeg does not support transparency. You can set a transparency mask in your vray material options. oh

@unknownuser said: What is the results with the other progs ? I thought you were going to show us. I think that you should, hairy one. @unknownuser said: Is the extractor not doing the job correctly, possibly? I think you are correct. Try a different one, and/or reboot and try again.

try un-selecting the alpha channel in the vfb options. That should give you an exr without transparency.

The obvious place to me in this case is the Vray forum so I've moved it.

Great site. Helps with kitchen FOV also.

Hi Thom Can you elaborate a little more please? Thanks

Hi , first , thanx to have taken the time to answer I appreciate, really. Next , I found the solution. I had a doubt seeing all the processes on my computer. And knowing my scene, that was not a poly number problem. I remembered a thread were it was talking about the maximum size of the texture. And that was the problem. I used 12000²px texture sized. Sketchup itself could'nt have threat such an info. I resized the texture , and it worked. So that was a texture size error. Working normally on big softawre like 3DS MAX , etc , I use to make big sized textures. So that was my fault. Thanx a lot anyway for the anwser. And really good job for your software. Some lights artefacts problems persist, but globally it's a good job

@eidam655 said: the thing is, that VRay for Sketchup does not support camera shifting. That is incorrect - there is a lens shift option in the camera settings. You have to do trial and error to get exactly the correct setting, but it's very possible. However - vray camera does not support SU 2pt perspective or orthogonal views.

Its 1.49.01 Apparently, I've opened a new folder and rendered that across the network, only one simple material with a displacement map and it seems to have worked fine, I think it must be because the other model didnt have any materials saved onto my system directly, since what I need to work on will have all new materials anyway this should hopefully work, thanks for your time guys

is Zejola referring to this effect? http://www.hdrmill.com/HDRI%20with%20Vray%20Tutorial/HDRI_MaxVray01.htm like when you get the v-ray infinite plane to receive the shadows, but the plane in itself is invisible and lets the background/HDR shine through? this tutorial doesn't work http://www.ehow.com/how_7369443_vray-sketchup-tutorial.html and that's a pity, i could use this effect

do you have a test scene you can share?