You must have 2 different versions of VRay though because SU8 is 32 bit and 2015 is 64, right? I wouldnt mix versions like this. Stick with one or you are asking for trouble in my opinion.

Oy, a bug! Glad I could help. Hope it gets fixed soon. @tedvitale_cg said: Unfortunately, you sir, have found a bug. I've logged the issue and it will eventually be resolved in future versions of V-Ray For SketchUp. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

Yeah, hard to give you a good answer... I have tried many sketchup renders : kerkythea, podium, maxwell, twilight, lumion, v-ray... They are all fine, but i prefer v-ray. I have the feeling that i can more control my architectural renders. But parameters are complex. Podium and Kerkythea are easier to handle. Besides, Kerkythea is free.

A way to quickly cheat if the terrain clipper tool doesn't work, is to lift one surface off of the other by a half inch or so. At that distance and scale you shouldn't be able to see the edge either.

Yet again V-ray loaded model and MSWindows gives this message, for the 1st time ever. Even if with 16GB of RAM and 3D model using only 3GBs. While building raycaster accelerator the computer freezes and mouse cursor moves very hard. No displacements, totally cleaned model, purged and with synced materials and maps. Any sollution to this? Later edit: Solved it. It's just the model management wrong. Had to hide some components that were invisible on this scene, the second floor and some plants on there right that are visible in another scene. Thanks in advance! [image: 8Pt6_vraymemoryfailure_3.jpg]

@valerostudio said: There is no magic button. You have to light a scene the way you would in real life. Fixtures with IES lights, windows letting in sunlight, maybe you even setup a few rectangular lights behind your camera as additional lighting, the same way a photographer would. http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2013/03/how-to-mix-light-sources-to-warm-interior-photo http://www.cg-blog.com/index.php/2012/09/04/living-light-balance.htm I like the clear and simple way how you have expressed this. Your three sentences should be the introduction for each lighting chapter of any Render Tool. However, I would like such a "magic button"

Do not unplug the dongle while you're rendering. V-Ray will loose the License and most likely drop the render mid way through. [image: 1CBV_1625933.jpg]

How did you do it? I've got the same issues like yours.

Thank you all for your input. Very Helpful...

Can you post screenshots of your material diffuse and material maps settings ?

Thanks mate, it's so helpfull Love from Indonesia,️

Well, I hope your renders got out on time, but two quick suggestion I can make is to first, try deleting any lights in the scene. Sometimes lights become corrupt and cause a scene to not render. If that doesnt work, a last resort would be to go to Extensions> V-Ray> Debugging> Regenerate all materials. You'll have to re-build all your materials from the base diffuse layer up, but the model should render again. Let me know how it goes with the model.

Doh! I realized I can simply freeze vray via Preferences-> Extensions. Thank you for response.

@timothyfranks said: Hi All, I've had great success using the method caecarvalho suggested - however I have just run into the issue where the transparency setting in the Vray material editor only adjusts the brightness/contrast of the material i.e. 0.25 gives a washed out look, but no translucency. The Alpha layer still makes the correct areas 100% transparent. This seems to have happened for almost no reason i.e. models which have previously rendered perfectly now don't, and as far as I can tell there have been no significant changes to the models or to either the SketchUp or Vray programs. Any ideas? Hello Timothy, if I understand right,I see you're trying to adjust the transparency in a wrong way. The correct way would be to use the color parameter in the tranparency option and not the number. What I mean by that is, if you want a 75% transparent text, you need to use a 75% gray color. You can leave the value 1. You will use colors from white to black, being black no transparency and white full transparency.

@tedvitale_cg said: Try this glass out. You'll need to apply it to a thickened geometry for the refraction to work (model the glass pane), but it should give you a good starting point. Thanks for that, really appreciate it! I will get some rendering done this weekend using that glass.

Are you using the demo? The demo has resolution limitations.