@fredo6 said: @khulaifa said: I am fairly new to the Sketchup scene and I am now looking into making a video that is energy industry focused so need I to make it convey gases/water moving I thought I could do this by using section animations but not sure how to on animator. In Animator, section planes can be animated in the Movement Apparition. You may want to have a look at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_cxTxjG5w I really appreciate you reaching back out so quickly and amazing plugin even for a beginner such as myself.

You seem to have a wrong program assignment... For whatever reason, Animator is trying to open 7-zip instead of FFmpeg. Can you reinstall FFmpeg properly (following the instructions), that is extracting the FFmpeg.exe file. It looks like you have just renamed the zip file you downloaded as FFmpeg.exe.

@rspierenburg said: One thing to check would be if the Pebble face is grouped or not. I believe VRray Displacement in Sketchup only works on grouped faces. Thanks! That worked. I applied material to a group and displacement showed up!

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@gianfranco_bm said: When I explode components, and reverse their faces, the interior face supposedly is the default material but it shows black and I know it is related to the color problem. Only when I turned every face to default and applied a new material, it rendered correctly. But I can't do this for every component. I tried to apply the Vray Glass Cristal material to a wine glass component and I had the same problem. After playing a bit with the cushion from the image attached, and deleting one of its faces, I saw it was still appearing in the render. Even after I deleted the whole cushion, it still appeared in the render! I purged the file and this stopped, but the problem with the color continued. I'm not sure if it's related, but I think it is. Help! Meanwhile I think I'll reinstall sketchup Hi, sorry for the late answer. You can not run from a problem with SU if you on purpose or accidentally apply a material to a group or component, it messes up your default material and produces problems as you have described. I really do not think you will get rid of that problem by reinstalling SU. What I do is if I get to that problems I explode a component or a group and apply default material and reapply new material and then make a group or a component again. I am almost sure that there is a plugin for that but since I do not get into those problems often I never investigate options like plugins for resolving them. Also, you need to follow advice for all non-single polygon object, ex. like curtains, keep a good orientation of your default material when you are creating a model.

your main problem is cr@ppy PC- get something decent. But now, in your situation only one thing could help you- aggressive vray denoising. If you got lots of transparent materials in vegetation- switch transparency type to 'clip'. Keep noise threshold at .01 or .02 (preferably). Lowering it to .005 is nonsense- you'll render forever.

Indigo renderer is OpenCL type so here is link, try it. https://www.indigorenderer.com/download-indigo-renderer LuxRendere is free one, so you could try this one also. https://luxcorerender.org/download/

I think the problem is with Vray. there is a freeze when you exit the video mode and VRay is not properly stopped. I have the issue only with your model. So I am trying to find out the cause. Same for the change of view camera. I got it only for your model.

Hi. Are you still seeing this issue? If so, which country are you from? (And have you tried connecting via a VPN?)

OK, i've got solution On Environment Tab, i've repliced Background map which was /sunlight to color black, and turned on GI replacement and set there /sunlight. Edit:dont forget to also edit reflection replacemet same as GI [image: ISa1_1_VRAY_SETTINGS.JPG]

Figured it out yesterday. Had the Geoplane in vray on, then turned it off. I don’t think any question is ever stupid. It happens.

Please format the image/video line properly - we can't see it...

Is your selection a group or component, with inside, other groups or components? In order to troubleshoot (since I cannot reproduce the problem), could you Leave the Ruby console when you work with Animator, in case there are errors post or PM me the model Many thanks Fredo