Try the vray two-sided material. There's a tutorial about it too (floating around somewhere) Simple steps: 1.make your curtain material - (it should be opaque, but if you want it sheer, you can use translucency and maybe a texture map) 2. create a vray two-sided material (from the vray materials window - and make sure it's NOT the SKP two sided), set both front and back materials to your curtain material, check the box for force one-sided, and set your color to a light gray) 3. apply your material to your curtain. (I also apply the original material to an edge to make sure my material doesn't get purged.)

@thomthom said: @peter_shaw said: i have 1.48.89. Update to the latest version, currently 1.49.01. Many bugs are fixed since your version. Always check if your software is up to date. thanks for the heads up. just updated to 1.49.01. wow, didnt think they updated that much in a 0.0012 version jump even the UI is all cleaned up and nice

@chris fullmer said: ps - I work on images that get up to nearly 1gb. And they just keep getting larger and larger each year as I develop my editing process. I'm sure I'll break the gig size soon and probably keep going. Chris, what graphics program are you using with these size files? I have a 500mb aerial jpg that I tried to change to a png in GIMP but went to 2.5gb! Only reason why I tried it was that SU like png's right...?

Hi Adam, This is looking good, [even on 10.5.8...] is there a way to set up mouse preferences to mimic SU's? john

I've deleted your other posts. You need to get your posts approved before they appear on the forum. This is for all new members. So please stop posting the same thread over and over. Thanks

did you read this post? This may answer your dilemna. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=28593

you maybe can try to take a look at camera settings that control the exposure.. The GI light intensity as well also effect the brightness of the scene.

@valerostudio said: V-ray really is not a simple rendering engine. I would say that if you can get through the PDFs I posted and all the YouTube videos that Chaos has posted, you will be in good shape. Up. where are the pdfs that you've posted.?? ..link please. Im mostly interested in lighting, coz that's the chief thing in renders, materials i know and r easy 2 setup

For future reference on the Twilight Render website there is a "Tutorials" link. There you will find the video tutorials for Twilight Render SketchUp plugin. They are made in such a way that people that do not understand spoken English so well can still learn how to use the plugin. (Videos are also available in Spanish and Japanese) The next place to go for beginners would naturally be the FAQ section of the user forum. In this case, it is not a list of some odd made-up words that no one actually ever asks about. No, it's actually a list of the most frequently asked 'beginner' questions. Warming up the sky: There are many controls for physical sky, and color of sun, sun radius (how soft the sun shadows are) in the Light Editor dialog for Twilight. Check these tips for beginners wanting to warm up the sun and sky, and speed up renderings and general working in SketchUp: Default Sky Setting for Twilight... and speed up SU (includes an excellent default sun and sky .skp template file) First thing to do to warm up the Sun and Sky In addition of course you can use any spherical sky image in .hdr or .jpg format. If somehow the User Manual (comprehensive, fully hyper-linked, well organized, and searchable) does not have an answer to your question, you can check out the Best Of Tips and Tricks - The Master List Lastly the Twilight Render community forum is very friendly, helpful, and welcoming to all. It is very similar to the lovely folks here at the SketchUcation forum. Finally, users of the free trial still get free support from our user forum. People who purchase a Twilight Render license get access to the Red Carpet Section of the user forum, a lot of free advanced video tutorials, user content, scenes, etc.

Also the new version of Lumion is coming out soon, with some aspects of it re-written, to give it more of a realistic style

@thomthom said: SU uses only 1 core at any time - so that should not be an issue. i meant that SU and the vray renderer use the same thread ID. so the windows method of limiting cores won't do anything, if i want more perfomance for modeling in SU while rendering. f.ex: i set max cores to 3 of 4 for the SU cpu thread -> vray uses all 3 cores, SU can't use any.

I some times use the override materials option on my entire model, apart from on the materials I am wishing to render where i untick 'effected by override material' within the material editor. if its an interior scene remember to have any glass also unticked otherwise you will end up with no natural light coming in

It's been discussed a lot. Chaos Group says after they release Vray for Rhino update, then they will focus on rolling out Vray for SketchUp with all the improvements from the Vray for Rhino update. Rumor is an RT window, proxies, DR Spawner that works, etc.

With decay set to inverse sqaure, you will need a much higher value than 5. I set my Units to Radiant power (W) and use a value between 100-300 depending on the scene. Also, I would not use pure white as your color. In reality lighting gives off either cool or warm tones depending on the type of fixture. I like to set my omnis to a very light warm yellow/orange.

This "Tip section" is very important, Adam. Please, add more of them. I have LightUp but unfortunately have not had the chance to use it in a "real project" although I am always amazed what it can do. These little tips and tricks make me want to finally apply it for one of my projects.

@andybot said: My workaround for this is to do the copying and pasting with the vray plugin disabled. (actually, I just do my copy and paste on another machine instead of the one I have vray on.) Works, nice trick wish i had done that earlier

OSX 10.6.8, LightUp Plug-In 2.7.9.0 enabled returns undefined on navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-lightup"] EDIT: works in Chrome after I installed Safari plugin (LightUpWebPlayer.pkg)

I meant to look at rhino .3dm model. Wanted to see if anything is different.

Yeah, the reflection layer will do that (reflect the environment)

. Ogan