Cool. Just what I need at the moment.

I think the same things happens for files on the same computer... re-opening a file with vray materials it sometimes forgets vray material settings P.s: Devin, the ability to copy a Layer between materials would be awesome!!

I would make sure to have the latest 1.49.01 installed. Now DR does work with this version, but from experience, and the word on the street is that its buggy and might give you issues.

@ecuadorian said: Mouth-watering. I bought Octane some time ago but I was disappointed by its limitation to just 32 full-color textures. Dale, why is Indigo RT so cheap? Is there a limitation on the number of textures, too? I just found the product comparison chart: http://www.indigorenderer.com/product-comparison Seems like I'll be missing SSS and IES. Is there a roadmap for future Indigo RT features? Qustion for Ecuadorian. What do you mean with: "limitation to just 32 full-color textures"?. In Octane Render

hi valerostudio, thanks for your tips, very much appreciated. i´ll try to play with material and model, and we´ll see. cheers!

Giving up for a while, nothing I've tried so far has done anything. The only way I can do it is to look more down at the model. It's very aggravating for me right now!

There has been some discussion about this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=37586 it is fixable. I suggest you follow the advice in this thread and post there in the future if you still have problems...

I have to agree it is not the best idea I usually like to have my 3D PDFs sent by email where they are opened with the full Acrobat reader. Though there are few factors here. You need to have acrobat as the default PDF viewer in FireFox, I guess there are some other tools that may be used to open PDF in the browser. maybe installing acrobat 10 simply changed the default viewer to acrobat. Also the site traffic, when I opened the link in the morning it was fast, and the PDFs were interactive in the web page. I will prepare an example and I will post it to see if this is what you are looking for.

You can try this, http://www.nicetuna.com/kt2obj along with this, http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=35936&hilit=fluid+importer Mike

@thomthom said: Are you using the latest version? 1.49.01? Pretty sure I am... I have no trouble with rendering another project but this one won't work..so I am guessing that it's errors in this file?

Well I will say one thing [Kerkythea Donate] Pressed, Stinkie My Alien Tower is due to be major up grade but wont be going Via Alien this time as i hate Dell with a passion. Issues is i'm relying on my MacBook Pro to much to renders as this dual core AMD build just takes to long 3x so what i'm having to look at is new pc Build with Dual Processors, and Stay with Kerkythea and invest in Thea to, may as well invest in a product i know and dont have to learn all over again. But if any one has done a timed test for products please share

@unknownuser said: These 2 products seems are clearly first for Professional uses so price are in adequation It does not necessarily follow that if I am a "professional user" that I am "rich" so I have to pay "big money" for software that seems to be priced based on the philosophy of "professional" = "soak him big money".

Yeh Pete!

@miikka1978 said: Is there some limitations with the size of the model? For example, I would like to bake a golf course model (2000m x 2000m) and import the model into Unity. The file size is about 5-6MB. No intrinsic limits. However, you can significantly accelerate your workflow by structuring your model, using Layers, "Zoning" your (golf) landscape into top-level Groups to make it easier to edit and process, using a consistent level-of-detail both in terms of geometry detail and texture detail (no 6000x6000 textures for the basket in the corner). etc. Adam

That's right! I moved the lights down and eliminated the problem. Thanks!

Sorry for not getting back sooner but got a little side tracked. Although there are a lot of helpful tips and tricks from everyone this all is a bit over my head right now but will still strive to do better renders. Thanks Kurt

The textures on other layers rely on the mapping from the diffuse layer. If you don't have a texture in diffuse, you will not have control over the mapping in SU. The best way to have a texture in diffuse that won't show up in your render is this way: In your diffuse layer, next to transparency, select the little "m" button and choose the "TexAColor" and change that color to white (100% transparent.) Add another diffuse layer to your material and make that the color that you want to render. This way, you can position the material in SU, and the maps in the other layers will correspond. (I would have linked you to the post on the vray for sketchup forum, but it's not available, and I couldn't find a description of this method in this forum. Anyone else know where there's a thorough discussion of this on sketchucation?) -Andy