Try out a shadow catcher method:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=322%26amp;t=54999
http://charlottesvillearchitecturalrendering.com/?p=494

That seeemed to do the trick ! thanks a lot for the help !

Yes, basically Vray doesn't know how big to make your texture or in what direction to lay it because it uses SketchUp textures to determine that. And since a color has neither direction nor size it gets all messed up.

that's weird, not sure what it could be. Did you try contacting support? Are you on any kind of network? If wireless - there may be some connection problems.

Sorry no, GPU can't be used to help speed up the render. Only thing that can help speed things up with vfs 2.0 is distributed rendering on multiple machines.

I think you just need to keep reducing the multiplier on the emmissive layer. It also helps to change the emmissive color to lower saturation and make it a darker value.

Anyone with the same problem?

@valerostudio said:

Just tested a simple cube using RT with a Titan X GPU and it doesn't work. Like Andy said, for now use CPU and if you access to DR nodes, use them as well.

yes, thanks

This is a UV mapping error. Add a UV Map to your Diffuse layer.

You can re-link the texture either in the SU material editor or the vray one, either will work. The specific path will depend on where the texture file was originally.

Cool birds' song during the cool tutorial video! 😎

I'm new to sketchup and Vray so not really sure but you can try reading this:

http://www.vray.com/vray_for_sketchup/manual/choosing_different_render_engines.shtml

It could be something with the iraddiance map settings

"When Min Rate and Max Rate are too low, "leaking light" happens even if the objects are joined together"..you will find where they talk about this somewhere in the middle

So I pulled the Trigger and bought Thea and I must say I am liking the interface and stability....Just need to learn the UI on the Studio Part and find the best driver for my Dual GTX 780. Thea in SU is very easy to use. Thanks again for the advice...!

@valerostudio said:

Take it one step further and add an arrow so you know which way the front face is facing. Similar to how the icon looks in Max.

Yeah, that works too 😉

@driven said:

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They store the preview image as a Base64 string, maybe that's why?

I tried readjusting the physical camera and environment settings like you suggested but i still can't figure out how to get rid of that washed out look..any other suggestions?

Make sure you post some final renders in the Gallery !

@horsinho said:

That solved it indeed, Thank you very much. First time I had this problem, from now on I'll be aware of this. Thanks again.

Glad it worked! 👍