That sounds like an old old bug from 1.49.01 I think. The best way to avoid this is to upgrade to 2.0 where a million bug fixes and improvements have been made.

None has THe same issue? I'm working on PC, Windows 7, Sketchup 2015, Vray2...

I think this is a really good start. I think to get more realism you need two things, better materials and more modelling. For example, what is the blue material supposed to be? Will the owner of the house really want a Blue house like that, does the material have any kind of texture to it? reflection? Secondly, it looks as if this is more of a massing model. When trying to create a realistic rendering you need to think in more realistic terms. How would the soffit inside your overhang attach to the walls, is there any trim around the fascia, walls etc. It almost needs to get to the point where you model it as if you were building it for real (almost). And finally, if you look at 90% of the best realistic renderings out there I would say that 60% of it is modeling/rendering and 40% is post processing in Photoshop. But yeah, very good start, just start looking around you at different building materials and see the texture, reflection, refraction, gloss, and connections to other materials. And then create you own Vray Materials to match it or model it in sketchup. Hope this helps, Rob

thanks for your replies!!!really appreciated.

using 'force sync all materials' then using Cleanup³ seems to help...

Make a copy of the model and use section slice.

the initialization of our plugin is the slowdown, we don't wait for xmlspawner to start up before allowing you to continue using SketchUp. The spawner is necessary if you do an RT render, so it runs in the background. Using DR with a spawner on your local machine would be pointless.

no, sorry, we don't have a way to get it back to another 3d format once it's been converted to a vrmesh.

there should be a multi material for each proxy. There should be sub materials for each multi material, which are displayed when you select the multi material. You can edit each of these materials, by selecting each one in the list to the left, or you can change which material is applied to each material ID for the multi material.

Ok. I think I will just keep looking for different HDRI and continue experimenting. Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I already started thinking about the lack of shadows in my render but wanted to tackle the size problem first. Thank you for helping me. You have a very interesting blog and many great renderings. Best regards niX.

I am also have this problem. How do I check the XMLDRSpawner running?

I'm guessing you have a material in particular that is hanging it up. You can choose which materials can be overridden, which will allow you to override all materials, and then enable each on individually until you find the one that is causing the huge slowdown. That could help people troubleshoot the issue with you.

The 2.0 beta is over, please update to the latest service release that is available on our website. This may have been addressed in the service release.

please contact support@chaosgroup.com about this issue. We would need more information in order to help. For example: the version of SketchUp, version of V-Ray for SketchUp you have installed, version of V-Ray for SketchUp you have a license for (double check you have the correct version installed for your license), Operating System, when did the issue first happen, what did you do just before this issue first occurred. Feel free to continue this thread, but I highly suggest you contact our support department also.

@vagadesign said: Would that cause the effect in my renderings though? Yes, it can cause effects like what you see in your rendering. There's a checkbox to use UV, you want to have that box unchecked.

You don't have to save to a separate vray material (vrmat), you can just save the SU material (skm file) to a library. Look in the SU help documentation about saving a material to a library.

yes thx, 'make unique texture' is works now

@nd1969 said: I have got the same problem with the same build as mentioned by Brodie. It doesn't want to start te next render. Anyone have a solution for this problem? I could use some sleep, batch render would help! The build described is an old build. Id recommend upgrading to the latest version of V-Ray for Sketchup, Service Pack 3, which is on the website under downloads: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/downloads.html. After you log in you'll have access to the latest build.