@jcarchitecture said: I'm rendering with Vray for sketchup and I've got a background with overall cloudy sky. Right now, the background doesn't really look right with the amount of light comming in the building. I need to know how to diffuse the shadow and make the whole look more realistic. SO the light shinning on the floor as to be less direct and more diffuse like on cloudy days If you use an HDRI for your lighting you'll most likely get a very diffuse shadow. An alternative is to change the V-Ray Sun Size, try something like 10-20.

Thanks Scott, good share.

Wow, I just saw this, thanks.

Pete, thats a very god start. If you want your verticals to go perpendicular to the horizon, you need to adjust the len shift value in the physical camera. When I was using VfSU, I would start with about 0.1 for a shot from ground eye-level. Quickest way to get this right is to tick the material override and reduce the render output size whilst you test out which lens shift value gets your verticals upright.

It worked. here are some of the models with alfa and inverted alfa files just to say thanks The models are not my own work Vray friendly.rar

@akabear said: I find some textures apply to the model and display as a colour. But some don't. Are any of the textures TIFF by any chance? [quote="AkaBear"I also find that I end up with multiple materials on a face sometimes and the only way to avoid this is to start with a blank and adulterated model if wishing to change materials. Can you post a screenshot? I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Indeed and I'm more than happy about it! I havent used it since November IIRC when I got a job role switch to an Arch visualiser

Ditto Scott. There's so many things that could be the cause. Often it's multiple causes. Also, please post what SU version and what V-Ray for SketchUp version you use. The various version behave quite differently on some areas. FYI: the ASGVis forums is a good resource.

No problem. There's a few quirks in VfSU. The ASGVis forums are a good resource to find ways to deal with them. What version do you have by the way? The original?

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Same here with Vray 3.6

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@thomthom said: @chango70 said: Just downloaded and installed VRay V1.5. Does the render make background black for you? Yes, by default it does. They changed the default settings so it doesn't use the Sky or the Physical Camera. To use the old default settings load the 'sketchup_default' setting. Thx for the reply. I was too hasty as it came as bit of a shock to see my rendering go black. I am beginning to figure out the settings now sorry for the bother.

@thomthom said: Do you use the V-Ray for SketchUp manual? Have a look at the V-Ray manual (non-specific to host system): http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/ hmmm... failed to find anything about the subject in this manual... (but there were some good examples about the physical sky)

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@nomeradona said: just follow what andybot said. thank you yes it is working

Thanks to you both, I have fixed the problem with the small plug-in uv tool, very practical... Bye

Thanks for the advice, but I traced the problem to an outdated version of v-ray. Apparently a new release was recently made available that fixes such bugs. Still great advice for future problems.

Sounds like a lighting issue more than a material issue. Try rendering without physical camera in vray and see if that helps.

You could also try this excellent tutorial on the ASGVIS forum http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=90&topic=5225.0 David