http://www.ronenbekerman.com/10-free-hdri-spherical-skies-maps/

Sounds like very good news. I hope the timeframe from the release of the Rhino update to the release of the SU Beta isn't too drawn out. In the meantime, I took advantage of the Maxwell promo and bought a Suite with 5 render nodes at 30% off.

interesting, those are glazed then. I am more familiar with the unglazed type. You might want to add a second reflection layer to give a deeper reflection. If you look at some of the car paint vismats (available in the download section at the chaosgroup site) those use a combination of reflection layers to give depth to the reflection. I couldn't tell you offhand which ones to look at. The increased subdivisions gives a cleaner rendering. With low subdivisions, the result is sometimes noisy.

Not necessarily darker as the projection light source is independent of the exterior sunlight. When in doubt, I will google for an example and if that produces nothing I will do a small quick-and-dirty mockup to study the effect I am trying to reproduce. Of course, you can also build the projection effect right into your model and not have to do anything in post. However if you understand what the result will be it can be quicker to fake it.

Try the vray two-sided material. There's a tutorial about it too (floating around somewhere) Simple steps: 1.make your curtain material - (it should be opaque, but if you want it sheer, you can use translucency and maybe a texture map) 2. create a vray two-sided material (from the vray materials window - and make sure it's NOT the SKP two sided), set both front and back materials to your curtain material, check the box for force one-sided, and set your color to a light gray) 3. apply your material to your curtain. (I also apply the original material to an edge to make sure my material doesn't get purged.)

@thomthom said: @peter_shaw said: i have 1.48.89. Update to the latest version, currently 1.49.01. Many bugs are fixed since your version. Always check if your software is up to date. thanks for the heads up. just updated to 1.49.01. wow, didnt think they updated that much in a 0.0012 version jump even the UI is all cleaned up and nice

I've deleted your other posts. You need to get your posts approved before they appear on the forum. This is for all new members. So please stop posting the same thread over and over. Thanks

did you read this post? This may answer your dilemna. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=28593

you maybe can try to take a look at camera settings that control the exposure.. The GI light intensity as well also effect the brightness of the scene.

@valerostudio said: V-ray really is not a simple rendering engine. I would say that if you can get through the PDFs I posted and all the YouTube videos that Chaos has posted, you will be in good shape. Up. where are the pdfs that you've posted.?? ..link please. Im mostly interested in lighting, coz that's the chief thing in renders, materials i know and r easy 2 setup

@thomthom said: SU uses only 1 core at any time - so that should not be an issue. i meant that SU and the vray renderer use the same thread ID. so the windows method of limiting cores won't do anything, if i want more perfomance for modeling in SU while rendering. f.ex: i set max cores to 3 of 4 for the SU cpu thread -> vray uses all 3 cores, SU can't use any.

I some times use the override materials option on my entire model, apart from on the materials I am wishing to render where i untick 'effected by override material' within the material editor. if its an interior scene remember to have any glass also unticked otherwise you will end up with no natural light coming in

It's been discussed a lot. Chaos Group says after they release Vray for Rhino update, then they will focus on rolling out Vray for SketchUp with all the improvements from the Vray for Rhino update. Rumor is an RT window, proxies, DR Spawner that works, etc.

With decay set to inverse sqaure, you will need a much higher value than 5. I set my Units to Radiant power (W) and use a value between 100-300 depending on the scene. Also, I would not use pure white as your color. In reality lighting gives off either cool or warm tones depending on the type of fixture. I like to set my omnis to a very light warm yellow/orange.

@andybot said: My workaround for this is to do the copying and pasting with the vray plugin disabled. (actually, I just do my copy and paste on another machine instead of the one I have vray on.) Works, nice trick wish i had done that earlier

Yeah, the reflection layer will do that (reflect the environment)

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Yea - 1.49.02 is unsupported - because it's a pirated version. ChaosGroup is a advertiser on this forum and many here work closely with them - there is no way anyone will answer this. Nor will I allow it. To get support, buy it.

@valerostudio said: This seems useful also http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=lens+flares#/d2momj0 Great source: thank you