🫛 Lightbeans Update | Metallic and Roughness auto-applied in SketchUp 2025+ Download
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    Beautiful! Thank you so much for your time, and of course hard work. This is a great community!! Bob
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    Iv had great fun readin this one. Don't know how i ended up here, but im searching for what render software to go for so thats the reason. From an pleb as me comming in and reading this its very funny. Cause from what i can read here and from what i found elsewhere in my search is that there is so many prefrences to set to get it right. Some have prefrences that others don't. And that can be both good and bad in my opinion. Thats why all programs have defaults. And what is the default? well that can be a lot. And from my point of view here. And this post made me think. Cause many renders look at it with a camera point of view. The idea of you taking a picture of something "real". While lightup in my mind looks at it with a human point of view. Humans don't have the same shutter speed as a camera, so we have a hard time capturing what a camera can do. Both are kind of wrong and right, right? You can't compare a human to a camera I think this is more of a argue about default and standard. Thea which i think i will go for btw has a setting as a camera, but it should be easy after this thread to set the "camera" to act like i as a human see the world, thus showing of lighting in scenes to client as they will in real life. Like my profile picture. it capture a moment of me driving, but its just impossible to redo that picture standing still. i would just fall to the ground.
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    I believe the 4 light restriction is due to you using the Demo version of the software. If you upgrade to the full version that should go away. Rob
  • Skp vray error -_-

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    TedVitale_CGT
    Please contact support@chaosgroup.com. We can help you with your issue more efficiently if you contact us directly.
  • Some Tips: Modeling For V-Ray

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    Do you use its render feature? How does it integrate your workflow? Do you see how it could be improved for rendering? (I'm the author, I would love to hear your feedback on this. And what CG USA in general think of it)
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    Glad I could help!
  • Import 3DS Max vrmesh with correct materials

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    would you please guys explain more how to do it in details and step by step please best regards and thanks in advance
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    TedVitale_CGT
    Again, I can't help unless you give me a little more information to go on. Open Sketchup and go to Plugins> V-Ray> Open Debug Window. What is the full version of V-Ray that you are running "2.00.XXXXX". There is a service release out that fixes a lot of the issues with RT. It could also be an incompatibility with your computer system so specs of the computer are useful see thread: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=322%26amp;t=26019. The more information you provide, the easier it is for me to help. "RT bug-splats when I render." is not helpful when trying to track down a problem.
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    What are your specs? I downloaded your model and it rendered in 2 minutes after I changed the settings back to default. I noticed your Dynamic memory limit was set to 10,000. Don't do that. Im thinking that might have been the problem. Leave it as a default setting, or set it to 1024, 2048, or 3072. This is how you allocate your ram for a rendering to prevent crashes. The lower the number the slower the render (on larger jobs), but it also makes the rendering process more stable.
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    Hi marekorv, Could you please email support@chaosgroup.com with this issue and send a packed scene and model so that we can test it? To pack a scene go to Plugins>V-Ray>Pack Scene, this ensures we recieve all the associated assets. In the meantime you can try some things to see if it will fix your scene: Force Sync all materials: Go to Plugins> V-Ray> Debugging> Force sync all materials Try Copying all of your geometry into a new clean empty Sketchup scene. Be sure all associated materials/textures are in a location on a local drive that V-Ray can access. Let me know if any of those solutions helped and when you contact support, let them know you spoke to Ted in the US office initially via the Sketchucation Forums. You may also want to look in the Forums on the http://www.chaosgroup.com website for other solutions to this issue.
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    Based on some great feedback, we've released LightUp iPad Player v4.1. Its just been accepted by Apple AppStore. Its got lots of user-experience polish and also a new screen to manage your downloaded .luca files. Hope you like it. Adam
  • PLEASE HELP! render interior elevation section

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    And in my opinion, the elevation you want won't benefit from rendering that much. The benefits of a rendering vs a sketchup elevation has to do with material and light, right now your reflective material looks flat because there is nothing to reflect, just a grey background, try adding a billboard or something to reflect behind the camera. Secondly, the lights have very little material to lighten, the glass has a bit of reflection of the light but nothing more. Maybe add a floor plane to show the effect of the lights. Rob
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    This may also have to do with image resolution. If your image is noticeably tiled, than your grass displacement will look tiled as well.
  • Why the ruddy Dongle?

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    @josephskibba said: Hello - I was wondering if I could "reprogram" a mini usb (flash drive) and use it as the Vray dongle? I'm on a laptop and it would be super nice to utilize something smaller. Working from home, at the office or in a client's office it's terribly inconvenient to always be locating, plugging in the dongle and then starting up the license software. What if other software packages required a dongle? I love Vray, but this is extremely annoying. Thanks in advance, Joe Sorry Joe, In the future we will move away from the Dongle but for 2.0 you're stuck with it. However, you can set it up as an on-line licensing system and host it from a home computer or work machine. Email us at support@chaosgroup.com and write in the header Attn: Ted Vitale and I can get you somebody who can walk you through the process if thats something you would like to pursue.
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    Oli, That worked. It just wound up shifting the image a little bit but all I had to do was move it in place. Thanks again. Ben
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    @box said: Ketchup? sounds like a problem in the Sauce code.
  • V-ray Help

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    Thanks alot guys!
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    Thanks Box, TIG's Xref Manager looks promising too: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7329
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    I had the same problem. Rectangular vray light, inside component. I JUST RESTARTED SKETCHUP and the problem was fixed!