With the previous version of VfSU one trick to gather all resources where to use the Distributed Render. You don't need to use any other machines than the one you sit on. Just turn on DR and set it to save assets to a folder. However, in the last release the DR is broken - need to wait for a patch. As for SU to Max - I don't know.

ok thx! but I still have the same problem... even with DMC umpf

Interesting. Please let me know if everything is fixed now. I think the new version of the script functions better with SU and plays niced with rendering engines. Chris

Hired by ASGVis? maybe I should be... I'm just one of the more vocal users.

Wow!!! 3 yrs of having SketchUp..... never noticed this cool option!!! Thanks a lot ThomThom!!!!

@dkendig said: Did you also check the box for "Include Frame Number"? yes that was my problem at first.... now i have a new problem here it is: http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?topic=7600.msg44499;topicseen#new

Direct download without that trial non-sense is under the support section: http://software.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182&Itemid=480

Another option is to use a blend texture. That's what we would set up automatically in our old version. This unfortunately caused some undesirable results in some situations though, so it wasn't added in this version. SketchUp's colorization method is rather unique, as far as I know. You have to edit texture images in an image editor for any other 3d app or render engine I've ever used. ::shrugs:: maybe I'm oldschool.

@unknownuser said: I believe Vray should take a page from the Modo rendering engine. Allow the user to select a small window of his or her scene for a quick developed rendering of that particular area. This way you don't have to wait 2 hours for a fully developed scene of a caustic effect, which ultimately turns out to be total CRAP. LOL! Good research.

There has been cases where a bitmap texture has been corrupted and caused problems. It could be that you have one of these trouble textures in your model. No quick and easy way to find it, other than removing one by one. Or you could resave them all into another format.

@thomthom said: Have you checked out the Arroway FAQ? http://www.arroway-textures.com/en/faq/14 yes that's where I copied and the 2 lines on my first post. Thanks very much for the quick answer!

I downloaded the Lithonia catalog of IES light data. http://www.lithonia.com/Photometrics.aspx It worked on the new Vray beta, I had to crank up the power to 1,000,000. I also created a little test file with each Vray Light in its own scene, I can attach a copy if anyone is interested. [image: VCQX_testscene.png]

@martinph said: This afternoon I purchased and installed the new VRAY after having used the demo of the old version to great satisfaction, and without any problems. I have attempted to make several renders, using simple default settings. However, each and every time SU shuts down completely a few minutes after the start of the render process, and I get a bugsplat message. Have I just wasted $800...!!?? I noticed that after installing the new VRAY a number of pop-ups flash by very quickly when SU starts (way too fast to read them, you can just see the outline of the window before it disappears again). Are there known issues with this new edition of VRAY, or am I just having bas luck? I do hope there is a way to solve this! (P4, dual core, 2.133 Ghz, 4 GB ram, Nvidia Geforce LE videocard) I also had this experience with the new demo version. Su started slow and the GUI of the V-Ray responded very slow and caused SU's freezing! I uninstalled it completely to get my SU back in shape! Nice render, but the GUI is very crowded and too uncomfortable.

@tomot said: Why is there a Vray sub-forum at SketchUcation. There was a growing number of V-Ray questions appearing in the forum, so it was decided to make a sub-forum to group them.

I have a problem to install the demo version of vray. can someone help? use sketchup 7.1 in Spanish windows xp sp3 in Spanish [flash=853,505:2hiyelkq]http://www.youtube.com/v/cy_cwWDSZ20&fs=1[/flash:2hiyelkq]

Window->Preferences->Extensions->V-Ray for SketchUp, the version number should be listed along with other plugin info below the list of extensions.

@bulbangs said: @thomthom said: Oh yea, it works very nice. It often makes the render pick up more details in the corners. But I'm vary of over using it. The Dirt map is also nice. can i ask what the Dirt Map is and how i can use it? http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/vraydirt_params.htm http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/examples_vraydirt.htm

@frv said: I can't seem to make any light to work, for instance the rectangular light can be edited but the effect is none, no light. When you use Physical Camera the light usually needs to be bumped up. Exactly what value will depend on what light unit you are using. @frv said: were is the low priority setting for rendering as is mentioned in the manual I asked about this yesterday. It's missing from the new version. Hopefully they'll add it soon in a patch. But there has been no promise. @frv said: there is a difference, and sometimes big in the manual and the actual OSX plugin. I assume this is due to the newer version. Yes - things have changed and the old manual will not always be relevant. For reference to how V-Ray works you can use the V-Ray manual: http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/ @frv said: Is there a quick guide to good architecturel glass. I think there should be bundled example material with VfSU. In general you got two ways around it, if you use glass with thickness you can add refraction, and effects such as glass colour and make it frosted. But it does need thick faces. Faster way, if the effects are not needed is to use a single face with to refraction, and only use reflection. In both cases the diffuse should be 100% transparent. Use a Fresnel reflection map, in the default values the parallel value is comletely black, I like to add a little to this so you always get a faint reflection. @frv said: is there a quick guide to speedyhigh quality archviz settings for exterior work under the phycical sky. Speed and Quality is hard. That needs to be tailored to each scene. No holy grale there I'm afraid. But my most common setup starts with Irradiance Map and Light Cache as IR is faster than DMC.

Upload the images to the forum directly. There is an "Upload Attachment" button right under the textbox when you post.