You can use the jpegs as your material maps, but you will not be able to the material files. These files are for V-Ray for 3D Studio and the SketchUp plugin has its own format .vismat This site has some free vismats http://luzindirecta.org/ and there a ton on the Chaos site (for registered users).

@maeglin1 said: @dkendig said: There are new tutorials for our public beta that started today! http:http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/vrayforsketchup_beta.html Lynda.com have a tutorial course: "Vray for Sketchup" which is the best video I have seen explaining how to go about things. It is simple and clear... unlike some of the videos from ChaosGroup, where it's hard to understand the accents of the teachers. The worst part of YouTube tutorials is when the narrator starts talking about 500 things a viewer does not need to think, or hear about, at the moment. Also, it would be nice if someone at Chaos would have thought - gee, a factory reset button would be nice to get novices back to where things start.

importing an image only works for flat logos - the drinking glass one would have to be mapped. Also, make sure the "use alpha for transparency" is checked in the vray material. Yes it worked fine and i found the use alphafor transparency, this one must only in the diffuse layer with the imported logo. By the way nice bottles you made, i will try these also to make

Sounds like you are trying to render a heavy model file. I agree that saving and restarting SU will probably help. I have found that with these issues, VRay clears reflections and some alpha map settings when you get this error. You should go through your materials list and verify that this has not happened, the re-render.

Hi Fred, When SketchUp crashes, do you see a dialog where you can submit a crash report? If so, can you submit a crash with your e-mail (you can private message me with it) or with some unique comment that I can search on and find? I'll look up the crash and see if gives us any clues. Regards, Tricia Google

@valerostudio said: If you want to render an elevation, I just go to that elevation, turn on perspective, change you field of view to 1 and render with the physical camera. FOV of 1 looks like an elevation. But after changing FOV to 1, render is extremly bright - nearly white. What set, change then?

awww, too kind thanks guys.

@rspierenburg said: Once again though, the modelling seems nice and clean and pretty intricate. thanks. ...although i know there'sbeen a lotta triangulation of simple rectangle faces..making model untidy..vray ignores those bad lines that come

i just ended up here. Fernando's trick seems doest work fully with sketchup 2016. so as new user i have to crack up my brain. I simply used Text Mix in environment Load the hdri in text A and set the Text Sky in Text B.Disable the Text C (Mix). Then after series of trials. I unticked the Text B. Seems working. Shadows apperared with affecting the hdri's intensity. Hope thus helps.

All the manuals that exist for VR4SU live here http://spot3d.com/

I would imagine you can get most things in one layer. There are many map slots available for the different aspects of reflections. I know some of the metal materials use two layers because there are two different IOR values used. Is there a particular example you are working on?

hey, I get a message :vray encountered an error while trying to render, please check the ruby console for errors. can someone help? ruby console: "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:63:in call'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:63:in block in evalExternalCb'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:59:in each'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/3rdPartyHelpers.rb:59:in evalExternalCb'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/VfSExport.rb:1981:in start_render'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/R2PCallbacks.rb:538:in start_render_cb'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/VfSExport.rb:1938:in direct_send'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/VfSExport.rb:1938:in render'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/R2P.rb:1482:in launch_vray_render'", "C:/ProgramData/ASGVIS/VfS/Ruby/R2PToolbar.rb:30:in block in module:VRayForSketchUp'", "SketchUp:1:in `call'"] Scene fully processed in 0.050 seconds

i will recommend pixplant.

Have you tried Thomthom's vray toys? There is an aspect view setting with the plugin.

also, you might need to change your camera settings - decrease your shutter speed and your aperature settings.

I've attached my leather material for you. Just change the diffuse1 color to edit the leather color. When you import into SU you will see a BW image and no color on the leather in the model, this is how you adjust the scale of the bump map. Currently, this is the only way to visually do this. Its one of Fernando's workarounds. Adjust the reflection and bump as needed. Leather.zip

I think this article has the basic answers to this question. http://galaxycityradio.com/2012/01/04/biased-vs-unbiased/

I dont really ever use infinite plane because of its limitations. Doesnt seem like you need it in this case. Just draw a large face and then you can do whatever you want to it.

Will a SketchUp start shortly then?