@fuzzion said: @john2 said: i'm trying to create pebbles. just a jpg file and a bump map produces tiny ugly mountains in the render. can anyone help? Over 3400 free vfsu mats. But if you use them and like the mats, pls donate. He also sells you the entire collection on a dvd for cheap $. http://luzindirecta.luxisessentia.com/ I used cobblestone, road1 and gravel mats found on his site. Excellent quality , no low res limitations. [attachment=0:p5z5wutc]<!-- ia0 -->Sample_roads.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:p5z5wutc] yeah i'm aware of it.

that looks very nice. I wonder if playing with the parallel/ perpendicular slots in the fresnel settings (adding a flake map) might do the trick with adding flakes. I'm curious to see how this compares with the Chaosgroup vismats - like thomthom, this is what I've been using as a starting point. Andy

Reverse question - is there a way to exclude 100% transparent material from the material ID render ? Say I have a texture of a tree where the foliage is opaque and an alpha channel masks what's not needed. Material ID still considers the transparent surface as a different material. When a lot of objects are in background, selection is not optimal. Thanks [image: smU8_render.jpg] [image: 66zi_materialid.jpg]

Thanks guys. i finally got my IES light working

did you save your file, close completely out of sketchup (no other windows of sketchup open) Then open back up and try rendering again? Sometimes the vfs cache gets corrupted and you need to close out and try again.

Again me. I've solved the problem. I just installed new version of V-ray: 1.49.01 ( I had 1.48... something) And now I can import materials from the same vismat library I used to use. Now I have: Windows 7 home (64bit), sketchup 8 pro and V-ray: 1.49.01) This set works fine. Thanks for anwsers.

Reduce the Ambient Occlusion under Indirect Illumination.

@john2 said: you can also write ur version of vray, windows version in ur signature. so that you don't have to write it everytime. just like i've done But now you're using Trimble SketchUp ...

Does it say VRay Processing on the lower left of the SU Window? You might have to wait. Parsing on a large file could take a while. If VRay processing starts and then disappears, then you might have a texture issue. Are you textures high resolution?

I may be wrong but I think its in the frame buffer but it is not fully implemented into the SU plug-in. Ask at the Chaos forums to be sure.

it is a nice reminder not to give the glass any thickness, when you're doing an interior shot. however i would still opt for giving the glass thickness, when you're doing a shot from exterior (double faded reflections in the windows).

I meant that I don't even have V-Ray loaded at all. I find it to add too much too SU startup time - and there are bugs when copying geometry between models when VfSU is loaded.

also when you create a material you can save this and reuse it in the next projet. you can also do your variations and save it or you can start from a library material and modify it and save the variation to a new material.. so why not?

That's looking nice, hmmm, sip. You can also try increasing your refraction depth so you have fewer of the dark reflections in the liquid. If you're using caustics, you could add some point lights to get sharper caustics.

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Curious in this world all works with guns! [image: a69722ea.jpg]

@ valero took your suggestion and replaced the object in the scene. Since you authored the scene is ok with you? I had to lower the emitters on the sides slightly to suit my need. Material Test Studio.skp

Yeah best to use vray material for this. [image: 5l9x_BASKET.jpg]