Thanks - The RpTreeMaker is for Windows only. However, we have created about 50 trees with it and stored them on the 3D Warehouse. You can load these into SketchUp and use them as is. These are 2D trees with a shawod mask to create good shadows. RpTreeMaker trees on the 3D Warehouse See this other thread: Library of Trees for RpTreemaker

where do you locate the alpha channel to turn on and off with vray 3 on sketchup? I try to save as a tif or png with my sky but get a transparent background - jpeg I have no problems but you don't save in jpeg if you can help it. Im pulling my hair out on this one looking for this needle

Thank you for the suggestion, Gaieus. I didn't remeber that I can modify Clip mapping. It's strange that in the file exported from SU7 I have the pic in the field Texture with Threshold 0.5 and in the file exported from SU8 there is no pic. When I put pic, I have to give a lower value for Threshold (0.1) to see correctly rendered image... Ok, but at least it works... Thanks!

@ledisnomad said: Do you have Vray 1.49.01? If so, in the Vray Material Editor, right-click "Scene Materials" in the Materials List and choose "Sort Materials Alphabetically." yes i have vray 1.49..thanks a lot..!

@unknownuser said: Biggest drawback is that I am unable to transfer materials with copy and paste between models like I used to do with 1.48. Am I the only one with this problem? No - it's a regression bug.

Hm. I'm a bit late to reply. Anyway; you might have seen the model used on their website at material downloads > vray 1.48 only as a testscene

The latest build 1.49.01 will not let vray materials come over with a component if you copy or import the file in. So you are hosed even if you found a resource, which I have not yet found one. Flyingarchiecture.com has some good stuff, but it's modeled for Rhino w Vray, but they share the same material files and I believe he has 3DS files of his models, so you could import them into SU and reapply the materials.

Try the Eon forums for a response. They might be able to find the cause of the crash.

Thanks for the responses. I'll take a look at those, although I'll have to wait until I'm home... mrcad.com is blocked at work.

There is now a new version (1.1) which includes support for iPad, and cylindrical panoramas.

No. You have 2 diffuse textures essentially stacked. The first is low res and this will be in the upper Diffuse layer. Then you have the hi res as the diffuse layer underneath it. SketchUp will use the one on top as the texture in your model. So, the trick here is to have that layer as a low res map and tell VR to render it 100% transparent, without the SketchUp window realizing it. We cannot use the transparency color box because this will also affect the transparency in the SU window. What we do is under transparency apply a AColorTex in the map, then set that color to pure white. This tells VR to ignore that layer and use the high res one underneath when rendering and because SU doesn't see at any of the VR tex parameters, the low res map stays in the SU window. This trick is used quite a bit in many scenarios. Example would be if you needed to see a bump map of a texture in order to set the UVW mapping for something like water. It is very important to understand and have this one in your back pocket at all times.

There is an old trick to do this. Just replace the floor material (make it white), render and save the irradiance map(there is an option/button to save it) then, put back the desired material, load the irradiance map that you just saved, and render the final image. Cheers! PS: For speed up things, check in "Global switches" under "GI" , "Don't render image". In this way, only GI will be calculated.

you could try pre-saving in the options -> output panel

We had a lot of positive responses to this rendered image/3D Model in the same PDF file from IRender nXt users. (See: New 3D PDF interface for IRender nXt) So we have added the same feature to RPS 3D PDF. The new version of RPS 3D PDF adds a rendering from the SketchUp Window to the PDF file to flip/flop with the 3D model. Using the new interface, you can easily replace the SketchUp rendering with any other image - including renderings from other rendering packages - achieve the same image/3D effect using any rendering package. See: RPS 3D PDF Wizard - Image Tab [image: 450px-3D_PDF_Images_Tab.jpg]

Aha! I need to play more and lets You now! Thanks!

@ledisnomad said: Yup, that sounds about the same as me. I lose reflection layers, too. I seem to get the error rendering most often when I have Photoshop or another instance of SketchUp open. Really hmmmmmmm Thats prob the same with me too. I'll start testing with PS and other SU closed.

Hi Kate The "Submit" button on the page where I'm supposed to enter my machine ID to get a license code doesn't seem to work? http://www.activateshaderlight.com/ Do I need to enter a 16 digit code number first? How do I get that? Thanks for any clarification. Eric_J