2-sided material I would think would do the trick.

2sided fabric.jpg

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A: The one that you enjoy using.

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You shouldnt always depend on a vismat to create materials. Go to Youtube and watch a couple of basic tutorials. An epoxy floor seems to be pretty easy to setup. Look at photos on the web and then understand what parameters will get you that look.

Seems that you need a base diffuse and then maybe just up the reflection on it as epoxy floors are very glossy.

http://www.cgtextures.com might have a good diffuse you can use.

I may have found the answer. I closed my Outliner and that seems to have fixed the save time issue.

Beware that old vismats - especially from version 1 (dear God version 1) will just cause issues in 3.x

Start fresh or use the library that VRay comes with.

My opinion is that this is very good for this subject matter, scale etc. When you get into architectural or other types of design, a more polishe photo-realistic or artistic style may be needed. (The corduroy waves look a little unusual, but sort of cool too. I mean they could be there, but usually you'll see that sort of wave action very close to shore.)

" change the sky image be it physical from sketchup" how do i do that?

Can this help you?
http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/150SP1/examples_material.htm

google 'light portal', tweak dark multiplier (color mapping), increase camera's ISO

If that is group or component try exploding it first and see if a scale of that texture is changed.
Also, are the faces of your floor object inverted?

Thanks Doppel, I uninstalled VRay and it immediately began running at a normal speed again. The issue was occurring for all file sizes, even upon starting a new file without any materials or parameters at all.

Thanks again!

Andrew

Which version of VRay and SketchUp? If you are on the latest version, head over to the Chaos Forums. They are a little more active then these VRay forums these days and someone from Chaos might be able to help.