@valerostudio said: What is the version number? Sorry forgot to mention that, Sketchup v. 8, V-ray v 1.49

@dkendig said: Have either of you tried our 1.6 beta, or tried SketchUp 2013 (Make or Pro) that was released today? I can't recall if it was one of our bugs, or a SketchUp bug with their observer system, but I believe this may be resolved now. If you still have the issue with our beta, you can supply us with an example scene and a bug report (send an email to vfswip@chaosgroup.com), we could test it ourselves, or you could install those updates and try it yourself. Just as a heads up, we are rather busy at the moment with our beta, so I wouldn't expect a speedy result from us testing. However it is tested, if the end result is that a bug exists in our product, please let us know so we can have this resolved in our next public release! Dave, I sent you at vfswip@chaosgroup.com a 19 megabyte Sketchup file and the email address rejected it: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: vfswip@chaosgroup.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain chaosgroup.com by mail.chaosgroup.com. [195.34.120.71]. The error that the other server returned was: 552 5.3.4 Error: message file too big Do you have another point of contact?

Oh right, sorry about that. I'll take the link off, it might be the website. Any ideas on a file-share link?

Have you tried rendering a very simple scene (ie a box)? If that works then I would assume it would be something in your model. The next step would be to set override materials in Vray settings to see if its one of your textures that is causing the issue. If it still will not render then perhaps take a look if lighting is causing an issue. It also will help to post some more information regarding version of sketchup and vray and computer specs etc. Rob

@panixia said: thank you. that's pretty nice stuff.. in addition i discovered that i'm just logged to it as if i used it in the past, but can't remember when or why i did it! This happens to me so often, it doesn't bother me anymore

thanks, HDRi probably is the way to go with night scenes... i still have to find my workflow though, so thanks for the tip

save your rendered in VFB history, klik on the icon "H" (at right bottom VFB), VFB history window will appear, then klik on the save icon. when you open sketchup again and open VFB history your file still in there and can be reload for region rendering.

Screenshots of your setup please. You have to make sure Include Frame Number is checked.

Have you tried applying the material to negative [back] faces too?

@valerostudio said: I am working on a tutorial that will explain how to use Blender to make meshes. It will be up on the Chaos forums in the next day or so. Cheers mate That would be so helpful

share your camera settings. it would be useful to help you.

It helps : When loading heavy bitmaps at the beginning of the rendering. When you run out of memory, and vray has to swap a lot on the hard drive. (It's easy to see, your CPU is not at 100% in that case. It's limited by the HDD)

You can now also using proxies in 1.6 and never have to deal with fake trees ever again!

If you save as a PNG, you wont have to apply the alpha in PS. Make sure your background matches the correct lighting conditions of your render or it will look very fake. ie - an image where the sun is clearly on the left but your shadows are opposite.

Tick the "Use color texture as transparency" in the Diffuse layer of the material. [image: sMzr_UNTHICK.png]

Hi , thanks for replay, I am still new to vray and could't find that options you suggested. Thats a shotscreen , maybe that will help? [image: dAUJ_Picture13.png]

@jiminy-billy-bob said: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=445477#p445477 Thank you.

Hi Lila, One quick answer for you: in render "A" You are using "material override", that is why your glass material is not showing. Go to your glass in the vray material editor, and uncheck the option "Can be Overridden" A more complicated answer: You'll probably want to do some testing with a smaller file sized model, or you will be very frustrated waiting for your 65MB file to render. Since you have an interior scene, I would try to put in lighting like you have indicated in the model. Make a simple model of a similar shape, and start adding in vray lights. It takes a while to learn all the tricks of vray, so the best is to take one concept at a time. If it makes you feel better, my first renders with vray looked just like yours, but it didn't stay that way for long. Also, I see that you've started making changes to the camera settings, that is important to know, and I would keep adjusting the camera as you make changes to your GI and your artificial lighting so you get proper exposure of your scene. Lastly, one hint: If you want daylighting in your space, I would use a high GI multiplier without sunlight. In your "Environment" options, go the the GI (skylight) option, and click on the texture (The "M" button) and change from TexSky to "none" Then, after you change the texture, change the value in GI from 1 to something like 10. This will bring in much more light to your scene from your exterior openings. Good luck Andy

You can also get it by clicking on EDIT menu and then GROUP, then Vray for Sketchup, and then edit light.