@thomthom said: What V-Ray for Sketchup do you have? The original - or one of the service packs? Have you downloaded the manual for the version you have? this is the manual that i downloaded sir: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7253631/VRay-for-SketchUp-Manual i dont know what version this manual is for.. nothings written about the version, but i can somehow keep up with it now.

Here's my image background.

They have re-written the core to work on Macs and are currently back-porting that core to PC. Alpha/beta testing in progress. Will see if that addresses it.

That's not a crash - just unresponsive. My guess is that you have material applied to group/components. That will cause allot of extra processing for VfSU. For optimal performance you should ONLY apply materials to faces.

@thomthom said: @edmon242004 said: Yes Vray fur, but there is no fur in Vray SU,, come to think of it why is it not included in this version of Vray? Could be quit useful.. It wasn't supported in the VRay SDK when ASGVis made the current version. Now everything is availible in the SDK, I think. VfSU2 might feature fur. Might. @nomeradona said: one of the gfreat concern is the amount of polygons involve. and we know SU has difficultry in handling huge poly. Doesn't most 3D app with fur support only represent fur with a few low poly proxies? SU might not even need to generate geometry - just have a tool you enable to see and broom the fur. yeap if vray proxy will be supported then vray fur will come handy. O.T> Is there any chance of you working with damien to develop his fur with Vray SU sice you know the language of Ruby and Damien has no desire to learn it.

Hey guys, thanks for all the input. Rob, thanks for all the advice. 1)By default in VRay GI is set on. I changed some of the parameters for a softer shadow.I changed the size from 1 to 2, and the shadow subdiv from 20 to 32. 2) For the sky dome, are you talking about HDRI? or are you just talking about placing a background image. How would I go about doing that and where could I acquire spherical images that would work? 3) I didn't get to the window frames and other minor details at the point of rendering that image, but I will certainly get to that! Tom, so your saying that for displacement to work, no other geometry can be touching the object? Even if it is grouped/made component? How would I get around this? On this next image I believe my displacement worked. I elevated the counter 1/4" from the stone island as well as the BBQ, so then only thing that it is coming in contact with is the ground, but it appeared to work. Secondly, just wanted to say that I got the water to work. Found the right combo of adjusted parameters to get that semi transparent, bluish tint and got the displacement to work also. (I think I just had the size to high to notice any change. It was at 300 and I brought it down to 5 and it was perfect. I put it to 300 only because I saw in a tutorial that the guy did that, so...) Anyway, here is a picture of my progress, slowly but surely. I did want to ask a few more things, that is if you all don't mind. How to get a more realistic brushed metal material. What type of material I should do for the BBQ, if you don't think that the stone I used is good. (Keep in mind the new material has to match with the redish brick facade of the house.) [image: test_render08.jpg] Thanks for your time and help!!! Steve

Nomen est omen. So ... no. There's a Vray plugin for SU, though: http://www.asgvis.com/ Try extensively before you buy. BTW: wrong subforum, dude! Someone move this topic, please.

Got a screenshot. That gives us a much better idea of what's going on.

@psallan said: I'm having the same problem with a file of mine... it won't render at all... even though it did before! the file weighs about 32Mb, has a few jpeg textures of facades, etc. but no displacement or anything... what can I do?? What version do you have?

@thomthom said: @action said: Hi, I was trying to install v-ray for sketchup 6, but on the select destination folder panel of the setup, it asks "please enter your path for installation of V-ray for sketchup 6", I tried using any folder location, but it gives a message like: "c:\Documents" is not a valid directory. What do I do?? Did you give it the exact path to where Sketchup is installed? that's where i went wrong thanks

Oh yes .. uhmm i think i did something !! Thak u all !! Well . here is the final image and two variations for this project who gave me some poblems .. well im studying vray , so all bad things at these images are not coincidences ... lol !! Im uploading it here, cause i think my images doesnt deserves gallery lol !!! [image: sobrado5.png] [image: sobradoedited.png] [image: sobradoedited2.png]

In your computer go to "Computer/Local Disk (C)/ProgramData/ASGvis/Options". (Pressing Load from the render options window should open this automatically) There are 16 different visopt including the studio settings you are looking for. Also check out EarthMover's thread: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=20573

Hi , this is a vidéo from me showing you how to resume a render in vray for max after closing the program an the PC !you can get a result of the render in High resolution and correct some mistakes. Sorry for the language of the vidéo ; Im blue in english , you can follow it step per step https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFiXs73iB-A%26amp;list=UUS2W4WAj8rAUCJz5HSpyhAw The render done with this method in three times [image: bec9xy.jpg]

http://www.cgdigest.com/index.php/night-rendering-tutorial-vray/ A good tutorial on night rendering in Vray for Max. Should be applicable for VfSU as well.

@subburb said: First thing to do : change via scripting Vray engine values and/or values into the "Vray for sketchup - Render options panel" It's a no go - at least with the current version. The VfSU data is stored in attributes as binary data in an unknown format. I tried to reverse engineer it - got most of the data for lights. But the main setting data was much harder. And the problem with the VfSU render settings is that it's read only at SU startup, and written upon model save, so even if you managed to decode their binary format, it'd be overwritten when the model is saved. The only thing which has potential is the lights. As that data is read every time you open the Light Setting window. So you could potentially create a light manager - which is sorely needed. So that's the bad news. But a new version is due to be release soon. The core is rewritten and a lot is now in Python. But I've not looked into how easy it is to hack. I have been asking for ways for us scripters to modify VfSU settings - but I'm not sure if this version account for that. This coming release was intended as a pure rewrite of the core to make VfSU compatible with OSX. But please join me on the ASGVis forum as ask them for more scripting control. It helps my case when more people ask for it, not just me going on and on all the time.

Try this for the roof, http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=13675&PHPSESSID=5eb628e1d5e686ea3801e8a0eb0b7990 and this for the bricks, http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=27095&PHPSESSID=5eb628e1d5e686ea3801e8a0eb0b7990 for the grass http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=3409&PHPSESSID=5eb628e1d5e686ea3801e8a0eb0b7990 These should help a lot

Alright, I'll look into it. Thanks for the link. Q

Thats some photo!

Guys, I am now wondering if paragmokashi has checked this thread as this would appear to be his only post. In any case it was kind of Thom and Kim to offer assistance. At least this info will be searchable for future lost souls in the wilderness Mike