Actually, If you have SketchUP 2014 (or an educational version), you can purchase an educational trial of VRAY for SketchUP from Novedge, here: http://www.novedge.com/p/8841 It's $138, compared to the $700+ commercial version. Good luck!

... that looks like an email from v-ray.com? Am I correct? That isn't the company that makes V-Ray for SketchUp, they're a reseller.

I'm not saying there's no workaround - it's just that this effects regular groups in a model, not just when you make a proxy. I think best practice when modeling is to not add material properties to top-level groups, only low level groups or faces only.

In my very honest and humble opinion, 1.49.01 is just not a great rendering plug-in. 2.0 and moving forward is where you want to be. Stop killing yourself with that bug-ridden version and update as soon as you can!

You can definitely try what njay suggested, but it would help the community to know what version of Vray you are using as there have been bugs in earlier editions that have since been fixed.

Hi, sorry for that...not happen again since I am a newbie here...it has been replied to the other thread..please close this one if you dont mind.

Hi...thanks for reply..i think i have the latest version....or how to update vray pls? I have already re debuging vrqy material but still blank result after rendering like a blue sky...please advice

please contact support@chaosgroup.com. We should be able to get you up and running quickly

If you match your viewport ration in V-Ray, then what you see in SU will always be what comes out of V-Ray. If you want to customize the ratio, for example, you what a true 16:9 proportion, then you can use ThomThoms V-Ray Toys plugin. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15491

I think it's a limitation of the demo version.

I noticed that the illumination are the ones having this weird pattern ...the objects itself in the reflection are not..

Hi, Could you share the file? I'd be interested to see how you are going about creating the elevation. What I think may be happening is the exported 1:200 elevation have a different resolution than the rendering. Have you tried just exporting the un-scaled scene from SketchUp at the same pixel resolution as the rendering and composite those two? Then you can re-scale the rendered elevation in Photoshop based on the 1:200 elevation you've already exported. I think SketchUp takes some liberty when it exports a scaled drawing so there may be some discrepancy between the scaled view and the rendered view. Let me know what you come up with, and I'd love to see the final result. But again, if you still have trouble with it, post the scene here or send it to me directly, and I can give you some more direction on how to best solve this.

i figured setting the transparency value of the diffuse to 0 use a bitmap for the mask effect. it works. yea, i think the 2 sided material will make the material even better. thanks for the help [image: KJHY_ScreenShot2014-04-26at11.16.18pm.png]

2 pt views are not able to render in VR Make sure to go to your options - output - image aspect ratio - click get view aspect If it's a parallel (elevation) view this is only supported in 2.0 SketchUp sections are not supported in VR (use a plugin like Zorro)

we just need to fix the bug, that's the solution.

very cool, thanks for the share!

@valerostudio said: In VR 2.0 there is a pack scene feature. This copies all the files (HDRI, maps, IES, etc) into a ZIP file. Its located in the V-Ray menu. Yep found it! its under Plugins- Vray - Pack Scene... Great - makes life much easier.

There have been other reported issues with vfs.rb : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=41055 Have you checked these issues too ? The error you show is because it is trying to find the 'entityID' of a reference that points at 'nil', rather than at a valid SketchUp entity Does this occur when SketchUp starts or when you try to use the script ? To get a fuller error type: load 'vfs.rb' in the Ruby Console and post the error messages - if any...