I was able to look at Make's scene, I was unable to reproduce the crash running OSX Lion, SketchUp 2013, and our latest nightly build. gspalding - sorry you're having trouble on the CG forums, but you don't have to worry about jumping through those hoops to report a bug. Just send us an email: vfswip@chaosgroup.com will submit to our bug tracker, which we use exclusively for tracking down and fixing bugs in V-Ray for SketchUp. Forums and email aren't used to track/fix bugs at all, so if you only wanted to report a bug, there's no reason to even post about it on any forums at all, because Joe (the other developer) and I don't use those forms of communication for that purpose. If you have steps to reproduce the issue, or an example scene file that can be used to reproduce the issue on our machines, please send in a bug report so we can fix this. If the scene is too large, just start deleting things until it's about 10mb in size, and then send it along. The less complex a scene is, that still demonstrates the issue, the better.

there are no errors in that error log, perhaps if you can post a scene, or explicit steps on how to reproduce the error, someone can better assist you.

@valerostudio said: If you are using 1.6 beta - use the dome light to use an HDRI to light your scene. If you just want the HDRI as your background, go to options and under Environment. place the HDRI in the BG slot. In your Output under options, make sure to click Get view aspect so Vray will match SU. that i know.. but the Background is not placed according to the model.. its like my model will be on some wall, on some window or on some top, or hanging in air.

I think so - Look under Plugins- Vray - Pack Scene FYI - Currently, I do not think it copies vrmesh files. CORRECTION - this has been fixed, meshes pack now too.

suggest uniting the topics: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=53444

@andybot said: How's "yes"? A lot like this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30eiuIS5a1r95uueo1_500.gif. Click it. You know you want to.

hi, sorry the non reply was on a deadline, in the end I used a different monitor that had the correct ratio i wanted, not the correct answer but it worked

i'm having the opposite issue, if i apply the material to a plane it renders fine, if i do it to a component or a group then it doesn't shows up in my render...

In response to that old thread: No, we do not handle the way SketchUp on Mac handles multiple SU instances being open at the same time... it will cause scene corruption, crashes, and other horrible things to happen... You get 1 SketchUp instance only, Thomthom's utility probably won't do any good in this instance at all. Just don't do it. One SU window only on OSX if V-Ray is loaded. In response to this thread: I have no idea what that white dialog is, and I am unable to reproduce it so far on my own machine.

there's no benefit that I'm aware of. I believe it's just a bug.

still stuck... can't seem to figure out how to access the material id's on the mesh proxy once its in sketchup

I really appreciate, awesome work. You are a master valerostudio@ thank you.

there are certain controls that are disabled until you have another setting enabled or set to a given value.

crashes in the observers ::begins to weep and walks off to a corner of the room to collect himself:: My suspicion is that the crash is related to setting the scene attribute dictionary

I am one of that... I will apply.

I've attached an Excel file that I use to get a drawing to a scale. Just plug in a few numbers and it will tell you what percentage to scale the image by in order to get the correct scale. You will need a reference dimension to measure, so it is a good idea as suggested above to place a scale bar in the image somewhere. Scale Fixer.xls

trying... thank u...

I have a similar issue. Tried to install VRay 1.6 on Mac w SU8 - SU crashed on open every time. Uninstalled everything, created a clean install of SU13, no plugins except VRay 1.6. I can create a new model no problem and it works, but when I try to open one of our SU8 models, I get the warning message about saving in SU13 blablabla and then the never ending spinning color wheel. Have to force quit SU and it happens on every model (tried 4 so far - size range from 25-50MB).