nice use of proxies Good cheer to all! Andy

@monkers said: Whats bug(splat)ing me is, sometimes when I import the component into my sketchup model they will load in no problems I can have a few different ones in with no problem. But sometimes it crashes and gives me a bugsplat error. I'm struggling to single out what causes this other than it only happens the instant that I add the component to the model. Is there anything that stands out to you guys? I think there can be errors if you try to bring in the same linked proxy as one that is already in the scene. I'll have to check again, as I haven't seen this in a while. Maybe check that you have the latest version of Vray for Sketchup.

Thank you! It worked!

@valerostudio said: Which V-Ray and which SketchUp version? Sketchup 8 Pro and Vray 1.49 adn 2.0 both

This are the Settings I used at last, as suggested by valerostudio: () Set the "Max. subdivs" to 100 (one hundred). Leave the "Min. subdivs" to 1. (Done) () Set the primary GI engine to Brute force GI. Do not change the subdivs. (I left the Irradiance Map option, there was no "brute force" in the version of vray i'm using) () Set the light cache interpolation samples to 5. (I assumed this is called "Filter Samples in the version i'm using, if so, done) [] Noise threshold 0.001 The rest of the sugestions were already set by default. I think the render improved a lot, feel a lot better with the result, i'm posting the image for your critics if possible. Thank you! [image: CExI_COMEDORDA4.jpg] [image: VE4t_COMEDORDA5.jpg]

thanks! it worked.

try one of the carpaint materials from the ChaosGroup materials downloads.

It's not quite clear from your post - are you using the dome light? If so, you can edit your domelight to be hidden. Further down in the light editor window there is a setting under "options" for dome light to be invisible.

thank you for your reply. but it is possible to pull the noise shader in the length? in VRAYforC4D it is possible to change the relative size! see here: [image: PbHU_2013-12-02_151713.jpg]

Hi Tom, Have you played with your Dynamic Memory Limit settings? I was having trouble with Displacement doing strange things as well, and after some testing I've found that having your dynamic Memory Limit set to somewhere between 1024 and 4096, I seem to be getting better faster renders.

Which version of Vray are you using?

you could reduce the reflection mutliplier.

I forgot to mention I have a dual core. If I add anything refractive it slows down render time....but I'm not using vray anyway, so my render time comment is wholly irrelevant.

You could make a double sided material that is Transparent on the back-face and opaque on the front-face. This will allow light to pass through without being to see out. I've done something similar (actually the reverse) for the ceilings of units so that I could get a sense of lighting by windows by look at the unit from above.

what are the error messages you are seeing - either in the vray error log or in the ruby console?

I didn't realise you could read them with a text editor, I assumed they were some form of code. Which is seems many of those I downloaded are. I also think I now realise why they don't work. In many cases the directory path from the original location is set within the vismat. So naturally when I try to use them the location is different and the vismat or Vray can't find the relevant bitmaps. Luckily many of these textures include the necessary bitmaps, so it seems as I use them I'll eventually build my own library. Thanks again for your help Andy, Regards Joe.

this shouldn't be an issue in 2.0. If anyone is still using the outdated 1.6 BETA version, please upgrade to the latest release. 1.6 was a beta only, was buggy, and was not ready for commercial use.

no, the dongle is required in order to use our GUI or render.