You can download two demo scenes here to see quality (or lack there of) yourself.

http://www.renderlights.com/?page_id=27

You need to Scale everything up x10 and afterwards down x0.1,
Sketchup and OpenGL can't cope with the small faces that result in such a small object intersection and so nothing gets made... 😕 Capture.PNG

@judyy said:

with vray 1.48

Latest version is 1.49.01

also see that your displacement image to not be inverted (negative) or if the software have this feature. Also, see if displacing direction in material is not negative(maxwell render accepts this feature).

thanks a lot, I'll try it as soon as I can. Now my demo version is finished, but I'll try it on PC. It seems very usefull to get a library of ready-made materials.

If you have a 360 degrees environment image you can place that in the Background slot under Environment. Remember to spesify which type of environmap you have. (spherical, cubical etc.)

@charly2008 said:

Hi Pichuneke,

what happened with your Video link?

I don't know, it's the first time I try to see that video since I linked it here... 😲

Okay. We have a V-ray subforum down on the index page - I am moving your topic there for better exposure now.

(I do not use V-ray myself but I know that reflections/refractions can be done there of course)

Just the texture files when I Export.

When I work in SketchUP I create a file that has the model and all of it's textures in it for organizational purposes. The file for this model has 4 wood textures (JPGs). When I Export it as OBJ the file shows the SU model and 77 textures - all instances of the original 4. This shows up in the file folder, not in the Materials panel or anywhere else in SketchUp. But when I open the model in modo I have 77 textures in the Shader Tree and 77 texture polygon groups in the Statistics panel - so the file madness is coming along with the model.

I can rebuild this model easily but my curiosity wants to know why this is happening. I can make a simple cube, copy it and distort the 6 faces and get nothing but the original textures when I Export so it has something to do with this particular model.

Thanks for your input so far.

@johns said:

Hi thomthom,

I did download those vismat materials you mentioned. But I don't know how to apply those materials in vray for SU.
When I applied material texture, it's only taking jpegs and not vismats. am a newbie in vray, sorry about t hat.

Thanks.

You must use the V-Ray material editor to load the vismat.

Crosses finger Come on OpenCL!

Click link

BAWWWWWW 😢 Still happy to see a new release. Glad I came back to lurk some more again.

@thomthom said:

@gaieus said:

There are still people with IE 6 nowadays!

At least MS is pushing to kill the abomination: http://ie6countdown.com/

Trust the bloody UK to be higher than the whole of the USA. 😒 😡

I'll try it now and give you feedback soon. Thanks a lot !

The problem with exclude object form the reflection is that you will exclude all the object.

In that example, thomthom, there are definitely lights inside, right? What about giving them a color? Tungsten 100W have a color temperature around 3200K which is about RGB 255,241,224. Because of the reflection on the roof overhang, it looks to me like they are actually changing the color of the lights.

I'm all for some post-pro, but the more I can do in the rendering itself the better, IMO. That way I can reproduce the effect as I change the design.

thank you thomas always the best!!!!