i learned v-ray on the demo a couple of years ago. while for work i generally use thea render, i have to say a few days into this version and i am very pleased - feels friendlier (love the fresnel by default!), it's fast and the tweaks are clearly geared towards the user. by the time SU 2014 comes out with 64 bit support - you won't need much else. (i can just imagine another extension warehouse for all the max plugins ported to SU).

Im currently using the Vray 1.6 Beta, but the materials are all the standard Vray basic material pack. I bumped the glossy samples up from the base 8 to something like 25. Im not at the office right now but later I will be so ill check on the material settings. Truthfully I think its in the render settings and not the material because it happens across the whole model with any material that has some reflection to it.

you should put something similar to a bump map with a black background in the perpendicular slot of of fresnel map, that will give nice reflection effects on the leaf and no reflection to the transparent bits

sure will;)

you should select text bitmap and then you can add the proper link to your file.

TexBitmap.JPG

yes, same result - i'm going to try with different subdivs cause i have a feeling it's somwething to do with the shadows. the tall cube is not touching the ground but about 2cm off the floor..

great, and you sent it to vfswip@chaosgroup.com?

I thought we had fixed that...

There is good chance that the OBJ file you are using doesnt have materials applied to it. There is a tutorial I made up on the Chaos forums for using Blender to make vrmeshes. Try this method.

a whole bunch of people are having the same issue
follow this
http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.ca/2011/07/trick-removing-splotches-in-vray.html

it might also be caustics. i was having the same issue but for me it was glossy reflections that were the problems. it depends on your specific situation. but try it still. i know that vray can be really overwhelming.
cheers

good to hear, I look forward to seeing this bug in our bug tracker.

You will need to contact a local reseller. I would imagine that it would not take long for a local reseller to ship it to you. Here is our list of resellers in that country: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/purchase.html?g=5&pID=10

I believe that the 2.0 demo has a watermark from the start. Our 1.6 beta gave you some time before the watermark kicked in, but this is no longer the case.

1.49.01.. i have maybe a big scene.. its about 160MB. and i cant render.. still writing.. weve encountered an error.......

Nice ! Can't wait to see the whole guitar 😄

you may change the background, or also put some hdr maps in the reflect slot, or maybe create some coloured light sources which are invisible to camera but affect reflection..

@valerostudio said:

What is the version number?

Sorry forgot to mention that, Sketchup v. 8, V-ray v 1.49

@dkendig said:

Have either of you tried our 1.6 beta, or tried SketchUp 2013 (Make or Pro) that was released today? I can't recall if it was one of our bugs, or a SketchUp bug with their observer system, but I believe this may be resolved now. If you still have the issue with our beta, you can supply us with an example scene and a bug report (send an email to vfswip@chaosgroup.com), we could test it ourselves, or you could install those updates and try it yourself. Just as a heads up, we are rather busy at the moment with our beta, so I wouldn't expect a speedy result from us testing. However it is tested, if the end result is that a bug exists in our product, please let us know so we can have this resolved in our next public release!

Dave,

I sent you at vfswip@chaosgroup.com a 19 megabyte Sketchup file and the email address rejected it:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain chaosgroup.com by mail.chaosgroup.com. [195.34.120.71].

The error that the other server returned was:
552 5.3.4 Error: message file too big

Do you have another point of contact?

Oh right, sorry about that. I'll take the link off, it might be the website. Any ideas on a file-share link?

Have you tried rendering a very simple scene (ie a box)? If that works then I would assume it would be something in your model. The next step would be to set override materials in Vray settings to see if its one of your textures that is causing the issue. If it still will not render then perhaps take a look if lighting is causing an issue.

It also will help to post some more information regarding version of sketchup and vray and computer specs etc.

Rob

@panixia said:

thank you. that's pretty nice stuff.. in addition i discovered that i'm just logged to it as if i used it in the past, but can't remember when or why i did it!

This happens to me so often, it doesn't bother me anymore 😄