Don't forget to check out PixPlant and CrazyBump. Personally, PixPlant is better value as it does the seamless textures. I trialed ShaderMap and found it a bit of a memory hog.

hey, I get a message :vray encountered an error while trying to render, please check the ruby console for errors. can someone help? ruby console: "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:63:in call'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:63:in block in evalExternalCb'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:59:in each'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:59:in evalExternalCb'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/VfSExport.rb:1981:in start_render'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/R2PCallbacks.rb:538:in start_render_cb'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/VfSExport.rb:1938:in direct_send'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/VfSExport.rb:1938:in render'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/R2P.rb:1482:in launch_vray_render'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/R2PToolbar.rb:30:in block in module:VRayForSketchUp'", "SketchUp:1:in `call'"] Scene fully processed in 0.050 seconds

i will recommend pixplant.

Have you tried Thomthom's vray toys? There is an aspect view setting with the plugin.

also, you might need to change your camera settings - decrease your shutter speed and your aperature settings.

I've attached my leather material for you. Just change the diffuse1 color to edit the leather color. When you import into SU you will see a BW image and no color on the leather in the model, this is how you adjust the scale of the bump map. Currently, this is the only way to visually do this. Its one of Fernando's workarounds. Adjust the reflection and bump as needed. Leather.zip

I think this article has the basic answers to this question. http://galaxycityradio.com/2012/01/04/biased-vs-unbiased/

I dont really ever use infinite plane because of its limitations. Doesnt seem like you need it in this case. Just draw a large face and then you can do whatever you want to it.

Will a SketchUp start shortly then?

I would start by adjusting the Gamma setting - Color Mapping > Gamma

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/10-free-hdri-spherical-skies-maps/

Thanks Tom. And you should Francois, it's not my design. It's not apparent from this particular image but it's actually a houseboat named Watervilla de Omval. It may not be too far from you actually as it's in Amsterdam. Here's a link with a lot of good photos, floor plans, and an address http://architecturelab.net/2010/11/watervilla-de-omval-amsterdam-by-31architects/ Richard, my goodness, you're still around? I thought you'd fallen into a hole long ago I seem to see you so rarely these days! I hope you're just too swamped with work these days. As grandma always says, you really should come around more often Anyways, thanks for the congrats, it means a lot coming from you. -Brodie

Sounds like very good news. I hope the timeframe from the release of the Rhino update to the release of the SU Beta isn't too drawn out. In the meantime, I took advantage of the Maxwell promo and bought a Suite with 5 render nodes at 30% off.

I would also say that exporting to scale to PDF or EPS or printing to PDF would be the easiest way. To create a 'to-scale' raster image is also possible, but it is more complicated, and you will have to go through an image editor: in SU, create a parallel view. Draw an empty frame with known dimensions round your model. export an image to a high resolution. Open the exported image in Photoshop. In Photoshop, crop the image to the frame you drew. If your background is uniform, you can use the Trim command Resize the image to the dimensions your frame should have on paper and to the desired final resolution. Now, if needed, you can crop the image further, when you save it, it will retain its dpi value so that it will get placed to Indesign to the right scale. Anssi

Hi, those are plugins: Skin; Subdivide and smooth. Anyway, if you are interested in Subvide and smooth I suggest to buy Artisan instead by the same author. It's a lot better.

interesting, those are glazed then. I am more familiar with the unglazed type. You might want to add a second reflection layer to give a deeper reflection. If you look at some of the car paint vismats (available in the download section at the chaosgroup site) those use a combination of reflection layers to give depth to the reflection. I couldn't tell you offhand which ones to look at. The increased subdivisions gives a cleaner rendering. With low subdivisions, the result is sometimes noisy.

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Not necessarily darker as the projection light source is independent of the exterior sunlight. When in doubt, I will google for an example and if that produces nothing I will do a small quick-and-dirty mockup to study the effect I am trying to reproduce. Of course, you can also build the projection effect right into your model and not have to do anything in post. However if you understand what the result will be it can be quicker to fake it.

@ Dan Thank you very much for sharing your project! @ xrok1 We are completing the development of the ARplayer and exporter for iOS. It will be available soon. Thanks Graziano