@vigge50 said: @tedvitale_cg said: It would definitely be possible. You would have to create an "x-ray" style equivalent material in V-Ray and apply it to the component you are trying to highlight to have the effect your looking for. Try the material I've created and attached. Its going to render a bit more slowly, but it should work for what you are trying. I maybe wasn't clear enough but I would like to use X-Ray one everything except the componen I want to highlight so that it's easier to see. It would be a lot of work if I would have to change all other material in the model to be X-Ray. So you would need to apply this "xray style" material to everything but the object you would want rendered.

Please email support@chaosgroup.com with this issue.

You have to use TexMix material in the Diffuse slot. Choose Color A slot to load the first texture and Color B slot to load the second texture. Blend them using Color Mix with the alpha texture loaded in Mix map slot. That's it.

Yes! This is high up on the list. It's very annoying then the triangulation disappear as you are working with the mesh.

This is a little old, but you're welcome to it: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u228e649d-c1ce-41c3-91da-830af100437a

I disagree, It's a very clean model tut and model embed. Congratulations!

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@valerostudio said: It seems that Maxwell already does something similar using Pixar subdivision. Yea - I just noticed they appear to have OpenSubdiv support. (Which is what I'm working on right now - replacing my own subdivision engine with the industry standard.) But yea, as Thomas mentions - we've been talking to some render engines in trying to find a generic way for extensions to be able to provide high-poly replacements for objects in a SketchUp model. A generic system that would allow any extension to declare itself as a proxy provider and then have render engines consume the result without needing to know anything about the other extension.

Looks like you've got the demo version. This doesn't render larger... So for bigger output (and losing the watermark) you have to buy it. Regards,

@fouronethirty said: ive been trying to download the new version and intalling it , and it replaces the licensed version and and such that it doesnt work anymore. The extension doesn't work? (Oh wait - you asked in regard to Vertex Tools? You coming from an older version and updated to v1.2? You no longer use a username and password to activate. You now use a serial key. All existing customers would have received emails with their serial keys. Though some times they get caught in spam filters. You can use this URL to have the email sent again: http://evilsoftwareempire.com/recover-order)

The picture you have uploaded is the reference picture or your render result? Without two pictures for comparison is difficult to give proper advice, but assuming that what you are after that kind of look and you have indeed the proper texture already, a high glossy reflection layer + choosing the correct size in the REPEAT section of the diffuse layer will be very important to achieve the look. RL.

Does it need to be Vray?

@valerostudio said: You cant depend on solely exterior light to render an interior. You need to add lights, the same way you would need to light a space in real life. Sometimes I add a couple of planes just inside the windows to fake in some more light, but you definitely need more lights in your scene or you are going to get splotchy renders. I have to disagree with you here. I use HDRI + VraySky most of the time which gives me more than enough lighting for any interior scene (considering that an interior has a right amount of openings). I guess your statement is more valid when doing night/evening renders.

Hi, I thought I should post an update. In the end I have found that the best and fastest way to map the textures properly is with the help of SketchUV plug-in from Whaat, available at https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sketchuv and that in case it gets complicated, combining the fix from Rob rspierenburg mentioned above in this same thread does wonders. So a two-level solution for the problem, depending on the disaster grade that your geometry brings to the material Hope it helps, God knows I have been bugged by this one... RL.

@horsinho said: I mailed my country's reseller with several questions, but no reply. ditto

Using i7-4785t 32GB of RAM. It's ok until you start rendering something like this.

I'm use http://www.vismats.com and not have problems

It could be a lot of things honestly. But most often its either a bad/overly complicated material, or a corrupted scene. Be sure you are using the latest version of V-Ray for Sketchup, found on http://www.chaosgroup.com under the downloads section after you log in. You can also submit your issue to support@chaosgroup.com.