Yeah, I'm on a rush job and just found out it's not a default behaviour of Sketchup... This ThomThom guy really deserves 3 exclamation marks... Thomthom, I think I love you man... !!!

Sure would!!

@valerostudio said: It seems that Maxwell already does something similar using Pixar subdivision. Yea - I just noticed they appear to have OpenSubdiv support. (Which is what I'm working on right now - replacing my own subdivision engine with the industry standard.) But yea, as Thomas mentions - we've been talking to some render engines in trying to find a generic way for extensions to be able to provide high-poly replacements for objects in a SketchUp model. A generic system that would allow any extension to declare itself as a proxy provider and then have render engines consume the result without needing to know anything about the other extension.

You can find plenty of objects on the 3D Warehouse. But it is indeed hard to find free or cheap quality content. Take a look at the SketchUcation store, there's some really good stuff there for very little price (or even free if you're a Premium member) We're working with big content providers to bring their libraries into the Sketchup world.

Looks like you've got the demo version. This doesn't render larger... So for bigger output (and losing the watermark) you have to buy it. Regards,

@fouronethirty said: ive been trying to download the new version and intalling it , and it replaces the licensed version and and such that it doesnt work anymore. The extension doesn't work? (Oh wait - you asked in regard to Vertex Tools? You coming from an older version and updated to v1.2? You no longer use a username and password to activate. You now use a serial key. All existing customers would have received emails with their serial keys. Though some times they get caught in spam filters. You can use this URL to have the email sent again: http://evilsoftwareempire.com/recover-order)

The picture you have uploaded is the reference picture or your render result? Without two pictures for comparison is difficult to give proper advice, but assuming that what you are after that kind of look and you have indeed the proper texture already, a high glossy reflection layer + choosing the correct size in the REPEAT section of the diffuse layer will be very important to achieve the look. RL.

seems like someone at CryTEK regretted the decision then... by the looks of it you'd have to export your SKP to FBX and import it then

Does it need to be Vray?

@valerostudio said: You cant depend on solely exterior light to render an interior. You need to add lights, the same way you would need to light a space in real life. Sometimes I add a couple of planes just inside the windows to fake in some more light, but you definitely need more lights in your scene or you are going to get splotchy renders. I have to disagree with you here. I use HDRI + VraySky most of the time which gives me more than enough lighting for any interior scene (considering that an interior has a right amount of openings). I guess your statement is more valid when doing night/evening renders.

Hi, I thought I should post an update. In the end I have found that the best and fastest way to map the textures properly is with the help of SketchUV plug-in from Whaat, available at https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sketchuv and that in case it gets complicated, combining the fix from Rob rspierenburg mentioned above in this same thread does wonders. So a two-level solution for the problem, depending on the disaster grade that your geometry brings to the material Hope it helps, God knows I have been bugged by this one... RL.

Thanks Rich I am on SketchUcation a lot everyday. If nothing more, just trying to learn from the posts. My initial point was that I think this is confusing for users. I should have captured the URL's before. I want to be a contributor when possible. I think SketchUcation is a great site for anyone who uses SketchUp.

@horsinho said: I mailed my country's reseller with several questions, but no reply. ditto

Using i7-4785t 32GB of RAM. It's ok until you start rendering something like this.

@tig said: It's an "IF". BUT, it begs the question, why have 'they' done this AT ALL ? It wasn't asked for, as far as I know, by any users OR authors... I suggest you ask pertinent questions in the appropriate quarters/forums... I have so far escaped becoming a "persona non grata" - but only barely... But I'm none the wiser... [Homeland Security] The bean counters at Trimble are prob preparing the ground to generate income somehow from plugins.

I'm use http://www.vismats.com and not have problems

@tedvitale_cg said: While this is all well, and good, this needs to be its own thread outside the V-Ray for SketchUp forum. well.. i guess now it can go back into the V-Ray sub forum!