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  • Problems in Bump Mapping

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    Wow!!! 3 yrs of having SketchUp..... never noticed this cool option!!!

    Thanks a lot ThomThom!!!! 😍

  • Animation problem

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    @dkendig said:

    Did you also check the box for "Include Frame Number"?

    yes that was my problem at first.... now i have a new problem here it is:

    http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?topic=7600.msg44499;topicseen#new

  • Update to latest version

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    Direct download without that trial non-sense is under the support section: http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182&Itemid=480

  • Vray problem (not the new vray)

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    Another option is to use a blend texture. That's what we would set up automatically in our old version. This unfortunately caused some undesirable results in some situations though, so it wasn't added in this version. SketchUp's colorization method is rather unique, as far as I know. You have to edit texture images in an image editor for any other 3d app or render engine I've ever used. ::shrugs:: maybe I'm oldschool.

  • Many problems

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    @unknownuser said:

    I believe Vray should take a page from the Modo rendering engine. Allow the user to select a small window of his or her scene for a quick developed rendering of that particular area. This way you don't have to wait 2 hours for a fully developed scene of a caustic effect, which ultimately turns out to be total CRAP.

    LOL! Good research.

  • Plugin for Vray

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    There has been cases where a bitmap texture has been corrupted and caused problems. It could be that you have one of these trouble textures in your model.
    No quick and easy way to find it, other than removing one by one.
    Or you could resave them all into another format.

  • Arroway textures on Vray for SketchUp?

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    @thomthom said:

    Have you checked out the Arroway FAQ? http://www.arroway-textures.com/en/faq/14

    yes that's where I copied and the 2 lines on my first post.

    Thanks very much for the quick answer!

  • IES LIGHTS

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    I downloaded the Lithonia catalog of IES light data.

    http://www.lithonia.com/Photometrics.aspx

    It worked on the new Vray beta, I had to crank up the power to 1,000,000. I also created a little test file with each Vray Light in its own scene, I can attach a copy if anyone is interested.

    test scene.png

  • SU crashes when starting VRAY 1.48.66 render

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    @martinph said:

    This afternoon I purchased and installed the new VRAY after having used the demo of the old version to great satisfaction, and without any problems. I have attempted to make several renders, using simple default settings. However, each and every time SU shuts down completely a few minutes after the start of the render process, and I get a bugsplat message.

    Have I just wasted $800...!!??

    I noticed that after installing the new VRAY a number of pop-ups flash by very quickly when SU starts (way too fast to read them, you can just see the outline of the window before it disappears again).

    Are there known issues with this new edition of VRAY, or am I just having bas luck? I do hope there is a way to solve this!

    (P4, dual core, 2.133 Ghz, 4 GB ram, Nvidia Geforce LE videocard)

    I also had this experience with the new demo version. Su started slow and the GUI of the V-Ray responded very slow and caused SU's freezing! I uninstalled it completely to get my SU back in shape! Nice render, but the GUI is very crowded and too uncomfortable.

  • New VRAY for SU bugsplat

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    @tomot said:

    Why is there a Vray sub-forum at SketchUcation.

    There was a growing number of V-Ray questions appearing in the forum, so it was decided to make a sub-forum to group them.

  • New vray package 1.48.66

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    I have a problem to install the demo version of vray. can someone help?

    use sketchup 7.1 in Spanish
    windows xp sp3 in Spanish

    [flash=853,505:2hiyelkq]http://www.youtube.com/v/cy_cwWDSZ20&fs=1[/flash:2hiyelkq]

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    Window->Preferences->Extensions->V-Ray for SketchUp, the version number should be listed along with other plugin info below the list of extensions.

  • New vray

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    @bulbangs said:

    @thomthom said:

    Oh yea, it works very nice. It often makes the render pick up more details in the corners. But I'm vary of over using it.
    The Dirt map is also nice.

    can i ask what the Dirt Map is and how i can use it?

    http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/vraydirt_params.htm
    http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/examples_vraydirt.htm

  • New in VfSU (OSX) basic questions

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    @frv said:

    I can't seem to make any light to work, for instance the rectangular light can be edited but the effect is none, no light.

    When you use Physical Camera the light usually needs to be bumped up.
    Exactly what value will depend on what light unit you are using.

    @frv said:

    were is the low priority setting for rendering as is mentioned in the manual

    I asked about this yesterday. It's missing from the new version. Hopefully they'll add it soon in a patch. But there has been no promise.

    @frv said:

    there is a difference, and sometimes big in the manual and the actual OSX plugin. I assume this is due to the newer version.

    Yes - things have changed and the old manual will not always be relevant. For reference to how V-Ray works you can use the V-Ray manual: http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/

    @frv said:

    Is there a quick guide to good architecturel glass.

    I think there should be bundled example material with VfSU.
    In general you got two ways around it, if you use glass with thickness you can add refraction, and effects such as glass colour and make it frosted. But it does need thick faces.
    Faster way, if the effects are not needed is to use a single face with to refraction, and only use reflection.

    In both cases the diffuse should be 100% transparent. Use a Fresnel reflection map, in the default values the parallel value is comletely black, I like to add a little to this so you always get a faint reflection.

    @frv said:

    is there a quick guide to speedyhigh quality archviz settings for exterior work under the phycical sky.

    Speed and Quality is hard. That needs to be tailored to each scene. No holy grale there I'm afraid. But my most common setup starts with Irradiance Map and Light Cache as IR is faster than DMC.

  • Exterior render - Su+Vray :)

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    Upload the images to the forum directly.

    There is an "Upload Attachment" button right under the textbox when you post.

  • Problem with grass on vray

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    hetauma... its intersting that you mention that a copy paste operation seemed to sort out the problem... I have experienced a similar 'roughening effect' of a smoothed mesh with vray bitmap texture assigned to it using the copy paste (to a different sketchup file) function before.

    Would i be right in guessing that the surface which has tbe grass texture applied to it was in fact copied into the file from which you attempted to render the final image?... Are you still by any chance using vray 1.05.30?...If so, then this might point to a known bug in which texture info does not transfer across sketchup files too well... in my case for all intensive purposes the vray material properties and soften edge settigns were the same but one rendered smooth and the other rough...

    I hear this has been sorted out in the new version... let hope you are not using the new version when this is occuring...

    Dave

  • How to import maps

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    tx again and yes , I have the current version which is
    The latest version of V-Ray for SketchUp is 01.48.66.
    according to the link you posted

  • Renderproblem

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    Thx u so much!! This will help me a lot in the future!

  • Help me rendering this.. :(

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    make sure u purge all unused materials and make sure u dont have any material aplied to a group instead of a surface

  • New vray for sketchup

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    The latest public version is currently 1.48.89.
    While is has been a rebuild to make it OSX compatible it's never been refereed to as v2.

    @dverger said:

    http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?topic=2320.0
    It works on 1.05 but not on 1.48

    No - it's broken. 😞