Make a copy of the model and use section slice.

the initialization of our plugin is the slowdown, we don't wait for xmlspawner to start up before allowing you to continue using SketchUp. The spawner is necessary if you do an RT render, so it runs in the background. Using DR with a spawner on your local machine would be pointless.

no, sorry, we don't have a way to get it back to another 3d format once it's been converted to a vrmesh.

there should be a multi material for each proxy. There should be sub materials for each multi material, which are displayed when you select the multi material. You can edit each of these materials, by selecting each one in the list to the left, or you can change which material is applied to each material ID for the multi material.

Ok. I think I will just keep looking for different HDRI and continue experimenting. Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I already started thinking about the lack of shadows in my render but wanted to tackle the size problem first. Thank you for helping me. You have a very interesting blog and many great renderings. Best regards niX.

I am also have this problem. How do I check the XMLDRSpawner running?

I'm guessing you have a material in particular that is hanging it up. You can choose which materials can be overridden, which will allow you to override all materials, and then enable each on individually until you find the one that is causing the huge slowdown. That could help people troubleshoot the issue with you.

The 2.0 beta is over, please update to the latest service release that is available on our website. This may have been addressed in the service release.

please contact support@chaosgroup.com about this issue. We would need more information in order to help. For example: the version of SketchUp, version of V-Ray for SketchUp you have installed, version of V-Ray for SketchUp you have a license for (double check you have the correct version installed for your license), Operating System, when did the issue first happen, what did you do just before this issue first occurred. Feel free to continue this thread, but I highly suggest you contact our support department also.

@vagadesign said: Would that cause the effect in my renderings though? Yes, it can cause effects like what you see in your rendering. There's a checkbox to use UV, you want to have that box unchecked.

You don't have to save to a separate vray material (vrmat), you can just save the SU material (skm file) to a library. Look in the SU help documentation about saving a material to a library.

yes thx, 'make unique texture' is works now

@nd1969 said: I have got the same problem with the same build as mentioned by Brodie. It doesn't want to start te next render. Anyone have a solution for this problem? I could use some sleep, batch render would help! The build described is an old build. Id recommend upgrading to the latest version of V-Ray for Sketchup, Service Pack 3, which is on the website under downloads: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/downloads.html. After you log in you'll have access to the latest build.

@peerman said: Does this trick also work on OS X? Using the DR spawner on the local machine? You can try using a 64bit spawner that is running on windows, but there is no 64bit spawner for OSX at the moment. @peerman said: @dkendig, busy updating to 3.0 ? heading in that direction, yes. Had to wait until this service release was out the door before we moved on to some of the bigger changes

thanks. i fixed it in photoshop.

Are you using 2.0? I see a huge boost in rendering times even with just 2-3 computer slaves. There really isnt a whole lot to setup. Have the slaves on and running the spawner. Make sure all of your licensing is setup correctly, click render. Assets are transferred quickly and I see a boost in both my LC pass and IR passes. If it's working, you will see more render buckets at final pass time. If your machine is running low on RAM, just open the 64 bit spawner on your machine and check "Dont Use Local Machine" and just make sure localhost is checked on in your DR setup. With this method, you will not see you LC pass, but it is essentially 64 bit rendering on your local machine because you are no loner confined by SU's 32 bit environment. Now this is all assuming you are on 2.0, if not, then DR is pretty busted and I wouldn't recommend it. For more info on DR, see the manual http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/distributed_rendering.htm

You can create a custom channel in the VFB. For example, if you want a channel of a 2-sided curtain material for post processing. You can use this feature with lights also, so you can get the result of a single or multiple lights for post work.

I've heard rumor that we might get environment fog in 3.0 but its a no no in 2.0. You can try faking it with a ZDepth pass maybe?