Virtualwind has 'errors' in its code that misdefine or redefine other's classes - that can affect other scripts.
See this thread for details and a replacement files to download, that will fix the issues... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=331981#p331981

@mitcorb said:

Up till reading this thread my understanding of index of refraction was that this is a factor of how light is bent while passing through a relatively dense transparent material and would not necessarily affect reflectance

correct

It's affecting how much reflection you'll see when you are parallel vs perpendicular to the reflective surface.

The illustration was just to indicate that when you're standing on the side of a mirror/glass, the reflected image doesn't reflect what is perpendicular to the mirror/glass.

Effectively neat presentation 😄

I read the announcement also, and was glad to see Ruby being used as the scripting language. Too bad it appears to be only available in the Pro version.

Thanks!

Hi guys
I know some of the links are dead, I wrote the RainBath and CityUp as part of my masters;
I'll try and get the site fixed etc within the next few days.
In the mean time I would appreciate; if you download RainBath and gave it a try.
http://rainbath.imcore.eu Downloads page.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Will Lynn
RainBath
IMCORE

Problem solved!
I was able to select all and copy (ctrl-C) my model and paste it into a new drawing (all with vray plugin disabled.) The blended material problem is gone and the textures show up (and render) correctly when I open with Vray (1.48.89) enabled.
Now, however, I can't find where I read this suggestion to copy and paste into a new file (I thought someone had posted here, but I guess I read it in a different thread. Whoever you are, many thanks!)

i know this might sound silly, maybe it is, since im not having this new version of vray.. 😆
but have you tried to copy your scene to a new file then try to render again?

goodluck,

Thanks!

Maybe you'll find something here:

http://www.badaboomit.com/

http://www.mediacoderhq.com/

-Badaboom (Videoconverter)
-Media Player Classic (Medienplayer)
-TMPGEnc KARMA..Plus
-TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Videocodierung (Nur Vollversion)
-Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Update 11.12.09)
-Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 mit nachinstallierem Cuda-Patch (Update 11.12.09
-Cyberlink Powerdirector 7 (Update 11.12.09)
-Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 (Update 11.12.09
-Nero Move It "mit Cuda-Patch von Nero" (Update 11.12.09)
-CoreAVC vers. 1.9+ (VideoCodec welche die GPU rechnen lässt)
-MediaCoder vers. 0.7+ (Audio u. Video Converter der Cuda nutzt)

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

It's hard to make in-depth tutorials for a moving target, but be free to ask questions at Thea Render forums. When features are frozen for release, there will be more tutorials.

wow!! that`s sound terrific!!!
I'll give it a try and see what happend!
thanks a lot!

Check out their forums as in the showcase section there are unbelievable things. There is a Plugins section (on the top) with all sorts of free and commercial plugins, too.

Also, they have an additional software: "Flashificator" (actually, more pricey than the core itself 😲 I think some € 55) which has some intuitive UI for editing everything like hotspots.

I have not tried them yet but want to. I am hoping to have a decent (pay) project soon where I will use this software and then I will definitely buy that additional thing.

Edit; if you purchase the software, it will be shipped with all sorts of example projects and tutorials, too.

or start with this address:

http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?board=15.0

goodluck,

whoa...

Here's a scene I was testing some night lighting with. I used an invisible rectangle light in the windows and an omni in the box. Night lighting depends on a lot of things....render settings, glass material settings, light settings. Check some of my settings in the scene and see if that helps. Turn up the intensity of the window lights to get a brighter cast outside. The outer plane is to get cast on the wall and needs to have "affect reflection" turned off. You can do without the outer plane, but the wall will be totally dark. Also check the "shadow settings" in Sketchup.

vray night test.jpg

vray night test scene.skp

I don't remember all the details of displacement now. I'd suggest you set up some small test cases to see.
But I don't think you can have different material on different sides of the face. certainly not different displacements. Face normals matters greatly with displacement. (how the faces are oriented. You should verify that all your face normals are oriented properly - the front (default SU colour white) should be pointing outwards.) In general you should always have full control over your face normals, especially when rendering. Now and then, switch the SU style to display the faces in SU's default colours, you might even set the backside colour to a bright colour to make it easier to spot faces oriented incorrectly.

Hi, thanks for the help!

But I still have some trouble with my grass materials. I use the Grass Plane.vismat material that I have downloaded from the ASGVIS homepage. Please have a look at the attached image. I can't see any bump and the grass looks so small?! I have tried to increase the texture inside Sketcup paintbucket by editing the texture to 2 x 2 meters, but it looks very unrealistic to me in the render. Is there any other options that I have missed that I can change in the materials properties to get a more realistic grass?

Is there any better method to create grass instead of using a texture like this? Is there better grass materials to dowmnload somewhere else?

Preciate som help? Thanks!

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adam,

the latest developments are quite impressive. Lu is becoming a very complete rendering plugin. congrats on your work.

I have not had time to play seriously with LU but I am very anxious to do it. I'll get to it soon enough.

That Publo Dox seems really kool. Might have to get that.

http://www.visualarchitecture.com/cadmango/publo_dox