@peerman said: Does this trick also work on OS X? Using the DR spawner on the local machine? You can try using a 64bit spawner that is running on windows, but there is no 64bit spawner for OSX at the moment. @peerman said: @dkendig, busy updating to 3.0 ? heading in that direction, yes. Had to wait until this service release was out the door before we moved on to some of the bigger changes

thanks. i fixed it in photoshop.

Are you using 2.0? I see a huge boost in rendering times even with just 2-3 computer slaves. There really isnt a whole lot to setup. Have the slaves on and running the spawner. Make sure all of your licensing is setup correctly, click render. Assets are transferred quickly and I see a boost in both my LC pass and IR passes. If it's working, you will see more render buckets at final pass time. If your machine is running low on RAM, just open the 64 bit spawner on your machine and check "Dont Use Local Machine" and just make sure localhost is checked on in your DR setup. With this method, you will not see you LC pass, but it is essentially 64 bit rendering on your local machine because you are no loner confined by SU's 32 bit environment. Now this is all assuming you are on 2.0, if not, then DR is pretty busted and I wouldn't recommend it. For more info on DR, see the manual http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/distributed_rendering.htm

You can create a custom channel in the VFB. For example, if you want a channel of a 2-sided curtain material for post processing. You can use this feature with lights also, so you can get the result of a single or multiple lights for post work.

I've heard rumor that we might get environment fog in 3.0 but its a no no in 2.0. You can try faking it with a ZDepth pass maybe?

Sorry to sound crass, but if you need help loading a preset, then you really need to look at the manual and some tutorials. V-Ray is not a magic rendering engine. You will never have clean noise-less renders if you don't learn the parameters of the engine and understand them clearly. If you are using 2.0, then this is how you load a preset. http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/tutorials_preset.htm Bookmark this page and reference it... a lot. http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/

Thanks. I knew that but I forgot to put it in there.

If you are using an HDRI as a dome light, you only need to disable the GI and BG in your Environment. You should exposure in PC. I dont know why you would ever disable this.

In case there is still someone wondering about this, I have experienced LC freezing while trying to render a scene using caustics. I would recommend to turn on caustics just if you are completely certain about its settings. An error in the caustics settings can blow up your LC. I have also experienced freezing of the LC when the network supporting a DR is not properly set up. Specifically, slaves not having access to resources in the model. I solved it by getting a network with a server that contains all textures or proxies. So, appart from what said before me, also check caustics and DR settings.

apparently this problem has been fixed in version 2.00.24

Thanks!

Wow, smart person. I wonder why your illegal software doesn't work? What a butt wipe.

I would highly recommend using Fredo's Thrupaint plugin for applying textures to your SU model. Note that default texture size in vfs is 10 inches (254mm) = UV of 1.0 The bump maps should correspond with your SU material and there shouldn't be any need to adjust the UVW scale in vray.

In general, there are far fewer options exposed in the vray interface in vfs than the other versions. You may have to wait until 3.0 comes to vfs to really get better convergence.

I would recommend exporting that landscape as a proxy if you do want it in the scene. 4mil faces isn't an issue with proxies. It's an issue when they are just faces in SketchUp though, because that means we have to crawl through 4 million entity objects in SketchUp, examine what material is applied to each entity, build the mesh, etc... could take ages. If it's a proxy, the geometry is already in a format V-Ray understands, and it can work with it very quickly and with little overhead.

Rect light with color applied to it behind a glass plane with the refraction glossiness set to something like .7? Use a good amount of subdivs on it. Play with fog color to achieve the 'milkiness'.

@albebrigati said: Hello I use vray 2.00.02. 2.00.02 is not a version number. Should be something like 2.00.25774. You can find the specific build number when you go in Sketchup to Window --> Preferences and look at Extensions list and find vray for SU.

Lynda.com online tutorials are also very good