It seems that you are using progressive rendering mode for image sampling which needs a lot of time to reduce the nosie to certain threshold.
Do you check twice that you are using bucket rendering mode?
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shiyan

Revisited my 3dmax and saw how quick these kind of modeling challenges are. (which I use to do)
Problem is I belong to the SU cult and I don't wanna do things in 3ds max anymore.
maxrty2.png
Its faster there because of:

1.The ability to modify in nurms mode gives you realtime preview (add loops, extrude, etc)

2.The ability to manipulate each selected faces all at same time (do extrude , bevel etc) skip the need to do one section and array.

3.Swiftloop is so so good.. hope this comes to QFT soon.

I still like to work in SU and still finding my way how to do it quickly there.

Thank you !!

Thanks for the quick awnser.
Well they are mapped on the right side of the plane... As they are component, i tried to map the material on each face,but it doesn't change..

UPDATE: It actually work perfectly when i restart sketchup completely, but only with the first imported files. if a import a second model, only the first one render well textured, the other is plain white.. even if it's the same model.

Hi peerman,
Yes, Ted's reply solved the issue. I made the Render Time = 0 and that solved the problem!
I wished when i make it 'High Quality' preset, it automatically brings down the render time setting to 0 ...

In the meantime i by-passed the problem by using bucket rendering.

There should be no need to ever use v1. Put it back into the shelf. 😄

Based off of the result image, it looks like a spotlight would work better than an omni light. Just have one spotlight pointing up and the other down. You can then control the light cone better to achieve the look you want.

Alternately if you know the manufacturer of the light fixture you could go online and see if they have a supplied IES file to get the nice scallop affect of the reference photo.

Rob

Example

PS in this case.
There's Vray Bloom and Glare effect for a couple of years ( not for SU).

Well after a day full of trial and effort I finally got there....

You can make the sun invisible and under the options turn off the affect specular. I'm on Vray 3.4 and I don't remember how it was in 2.0. Maybe something similar..

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Just touching V-ray, what I've read that sketchup interface is set 1600x900(aspect ration of 2.01:1) whereas Vray default is 800x600(Aspect ratio 1.333:1).
Use closer to 2.01:1 Something like 853x480,1280x720,1920x1080
Anyway I have not gone to that point yet, just starting Vray .

Ref book: photographic rendering with v-ray for sketchup by Brian Bradley page 48

Try the demo of both and see which you prefer. Which to choose depends on many things. Cost, workflow your knowledge level of rendering, time to learn, setup times, etc.

I'll sometimes copy the offending object into another file so that i can use this feature to find my mistakes without messing up the materials.

@ithil said:

Yes. This option is really necessary. Maybe solution to the problem can be of a button "turn off/on subdivided" for all subd-objects in file. We can turn off all subdivided objects before saving. And turn on after reload.

That could be a useful function, indeed. I'm logging a feature request for that.

I'm only a novice at Vray, but it seems that the only way to get a numerical value for the roughness is to create a new "Vray material" from scratch. Here's the manual description of how to control it:

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY2SKETCHUP/VRayMtl#VRayMtl-Diffuse