mmm.. maybe you can try to resize the model.. not sure..

Very nice of you to ask. The more shared, the merrier, and folks can help more that way as well (with models, renders, etc.). Which is not to say that any help is needed. Makes more sense to me personally now that I can see more - the way it all works physically. Looks very nice, BTW. Whatever you have time for is swell, indeed.

valerostudio, so you suggest adding reflection layer, setting its color to ~50 and then using the Transparency in Diffuse layer?

There has been a little bit of a discussion from Chaos that they are considering moving the plug-in to an environment outside of SU in order to take advantage of 64 bit. The rumor is that Trimble has no plans of taking SU out of its 32 bit confines anytime soon.

the grass material looks pretty good. Could you share it?

Hi everyone, Sorry for my english. First the nomenclature VFB (Vray Frame Buffer) .vrimg - VFB saved image format The problem is easy to solve Follow these steps: **1-go to the address (PC \ Users \ "YourUser") and you will see the .vrimg files that have been saved in the VFB 2-look for the last file that has been saved, and put them in another folder or delete 3-open Sketchup and VFB and try again to open the history - Solved 4- If the problem continues only check the .vrimg files that are saved in PC \ Users \ "YourUser" to see which of them is that they have to remove** This has happened 2 or 3 times in very large and heavy files that I have saved while still rendering, the file is damaged for unknown reasons and the VFB no longer responds until the damaged file is deleted I hope this works for you

or your lights are simply not bright enough; right-click any light and choose 'Vray for Sketchup' > 'Edit Light'. You'll get a panel where you can change its intensity.

There's a separate checkbox for affect reflections - could that be your issue?

V-Ray for SketchUp was developed by ASGVis - they where not 100% consistent with the UI labels that V-Ray for Max used. Now that ASGVis is part of ChaosGroup this might (hopefully) change.

LC is only calculated on the local machine - vray does not use DR for LC. For the irrmap - if you are using "incremental add to map" and using a frame rate 1/6th the speed of your final render, the calculation goes pretty quick, so shouldn't be too much of an issue to not use DR. Once you have the GI solution, then you can use your DR for the final renders. (make sure the saved maps are available for all your network.)

vyonyx strikes again!

40th or Jenny had done this tutorial how to correct this here.. http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2011/09/tutorial-displacement-subdivision.html

@andybot said: lol, I didn't say it's not useful, you should just know that there are many things that are different with the current version. The manual is still the best place to start to understand the concepts, but I would also recommend looking at the video tutorials, as they explain a number of the newer features that don't show up in the manual and I think are pretty helpful. There's been a lot of frustrations - if you read through some of the posts in the vray section of this forum and the chaosgroup forum - regarding the slow pace of development of vray for sketchup. thanks

Same material. Reflection and mapping changes. [image: TBdb_Balls3.jpg] bling1.skp

That's an amazing take on the problem! In this way the single window pane can become a component to copy around the building... (and it takes care of material and uv settings too!) What would be the perfect distance between glass pane tho?

hi every one, I have also problem with rendering my file. It is big file, a tower, I tried to delete objects as much as I can but not much helpful. It so weird sometimes rendering but mostly caused my PC hang and even cannot shut down. mostly I have to press and hold power button to restart computer. I tried copy it and paste in new sketch up file, purge, explode those groups with many components or subgroups but still the same. Since it is for on going project, seriously I need ur help.

@eddiemoney said: Silly question though, when would I save a material? Wouldn't I have loaded it from a saved location in the first place? i think its not have always loaded from the first place, since when you create a vismat, vray will make it into zipped folder (vismat file and also the bitmap used will be included (diffuse, bump, displacement, etc.)), and you can put and load it from everywhere as long as you keep it on one folder.. regards, vd

Fixing the greyout issue and many of the crashes is a pretty neat update. It is after all a Maintenance Release - one cannot expect major features from that. Btw, there is an announcement thread here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45516

What is the name of the render ? Edit AAAh that is the section V RAY

HI, I'm a newbie here. recently I'm facing the same problem. I ve done all the suggestion made above but all in vein. My skp file size some where around 250mb. Either SU is crashing or vary is not starting at all once I hit render. I'm using mountain lion on mac with 8GB ram. Pls advise. thnx. Rgds, Sanjeev