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

Thanks for the update, will give it another try.

@thomthom said: Avoid using pure black and pure white - they are extreme colour values that can interfere with proper calculation of light. yes, sir, and will change it tonight, thanks thomthom

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@thomthom said: Window > Preferences > Extensions - Select V-Ray for SketchUp Version information will then be listed. Thank you Thomthom, it's obvious.

Check the Applications/ASGvis folder, you should see an alias to run the DR Spawner. You MUST use this alias to run the DR Spawner or it will NOT work. Once it's running, you should be able to follow the instructions to use the DR Spawner during a render. It's the same on Mac as it is on PC. Also, when going to render a given scene for the first time, always check what machines are set to be used in the DR Spawner settings, and click the OK button when you are done reviewing them, just to be sure that the information you looked at gets used. We found a bug while working on V-Ray for Rhino, where the machines would not be used unless you looked at the servers that are set, and you click OK.

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Break it up into separate pieces (exterior.skp, interior.skp, at least, if not further). At the very least you should be utilizing layers and turning off objects which aren't in the scene you're rendering. -Brodie

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I also had had this problem, and i spent the last hour trying to find what the problem was, I thought it was something to do with camera settings, lucky i stumbled upon this post

Thanks for the tip. The result did not change a whole lot though: [image: yukk_Skrmbillede2011-06-06kl.12.06.37.png] I also tried with the sketchup method you linked to and got the following map: [image: MLjn_hmn.png] (same result) I wonder if there is some setting to the gradient i need to change so it will create the "valley" after the top ledge. It seems like it gets where the ledge drops down fine, but then it just boost right up even though the gradient indicates otherwise? Maybe this is just not meant to happen. I tried to just paint an eco system on the mesh instead as the mesh is pretty detailed and okay as it is i guess. But it does not place the plant on to the mesh directly but some what under it, so only the top of the trees stick through. At the top of the terrain its okay, but on slopes and such its messy + i cant paint on certain places? Im gonna lay a bit low with all these basic questions, its only because of the time left of this project im asking to save time. Hope it is okay.

yeap if i go to: enviroment - GI color/Gi backgrnd - map - and set texSky it's the same thing....

that renders list is perfect! really helpful

Thanks Ludnid. I had the same problem and your trick seems to work!