I've tried it both ways with and without a dome light and the sun angle seems locked at an odd and unnatural angle of about 5:30 AM.... (the sun is set in vray to +/-5:30 PM in June, in Seattle so trying to shown a little light on the north side of a building) I've since tried to turn on/off GI and several other things that might affect it. Maybe its overloaded or corrupt, but I've done bigger models before. The rendered angle doesn't change if I change the time in SU. Odd. I'm now copying the model into a new environment to see if I can work around. thx. ....deadline looming.... Greg

Could be that there was still a SketchUp process still using some of the files from the old version. Let me know if it should return.

Are you lighting this with an HDRI Sky? If so then your HDRI is probably higher than your model, so either drop the HDRI or raise your model.

Maybe a late answer but have you look at the RAM usage? Displacement eat a lot of memory and since I started testing displacement my ram usage use to go up to 95% and CPU to 20% and then I have 16 gb ram. That is a model of 40 MB, with a mush bigger model and some displacement it is sertanly ram usage that slows down the process.

Where did you get 'Axes Manager' from ? Do you mean something else ? There is a 'UCS Manager' RBZ [DBUR_UcsManager.rbz] available from the SketchUcation Pluginstore http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=DBUR_UcsManager_v1_0_0 When properly install it has a subfolder named 'DBUR_UcsManager' in which is a Resources subfolder, which contains the PDF [UCS Manager.pdf]. The EWH includes a newer one by Didier named 'Axes Manager' ? With similar files/subfolders 'DBUR_AxesManager.rbz' etc. There is a Resources subfolder containing 'Axes Manager 2016.pdf' ? So How did you install it ? Using Windows > Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension... button ? I have just installed both from their RBZ and they both include the PDF in the ../Plugins/DBUR_XxxxManager/Resources subfolder...

@sdmitch said: Oops. My bad. I forgot to change the "origin" in the transformation. Code has been fixed. Wonderful, Sdmitch! Now it is perfect!!! Thank you so much!!!

@koenvdw said: Increase the Interp. samples in the irridiance map (to 50) i would not suggest to go that high with interpolation.. this can raise render time significantly and blur every detail in gi.. use with care!

draw2D with GL line in the workspace canvas would be much slicker. Similar to the way SketchUV overalys a grid with the tab key. You could tab through various composition guide styles. You could even add safe areas etc to really frame your shots.

And share those proxies when you're done. wink wink

Here it is! DROP TO TERRAIN_SKP6.skp

Looks like chrome is opening a link to a local URL on your PC. Try asking on the Google Chrome help forums.

Ultimately it comes down to personal preference. Typically if you have a lighting fixture, you would try to use an IES light to produce the most accurate lighting pattern for that fixture. Rectangle lights are good for when large swaths of light are required in one single direction, lots of people use them to simulate the exterior light coming in through a window, or for product renders as studio "softbox" lighting. Sphere and Omni lights will produce, as the name suggests, a surrounding light, similar to a bare bulb. My best suggestion would be to make a simple scene and just play with each type of light to see how it behaves. Robert

I believe it is due to the fact that the trial of Vray only allows 2 lighting elements in a scene.

hmmmm... .ok, I found a leftover proxy that had one of the cars in it as part. I thought I'd deleted all the cars in a test to see if I could get rid of all the ghost cars. no luck till I found this proxy and deleted it. Now they're gone. I guess I should learn more about proxies. I think I'm ok now, though now quite understanding why. I will read up. thx. Greg

My suggestion is to not use displacement on brick. You really want to reserve displacement for things that are close to camera have a lot of 3D relief and detail (stonework, etc.) Bricks can be rendered much faster with a bump or normal map. Try plugging your diffuse map into this website and create a normal map, put that in your bump slot. http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

It is too hot here, ı made this test to feel something cold..

Yes. Instances inheriting animation would be awesome. Can it be toggled on/off?