Thanks everyone. I don't know what the problem was, but I restarted Sketchup and it worked fine after that. So thanks again for all the kind help. @Thomthom; No problem, I know I was asking for alot. And without trying to come off as too rude, would you mind sharing your vray settings for the floorplan? Mine turns out either too bright or too dark, but that might be the problem of the floor plan itself. It's rather large (office building) and I'm not working with any extra light besides the Vray sun and GI. Would you recommend adding extra (a.i.) lighting? EDIT: Just watched the video, I guess that answered all my questions, thanks!

I appear to have solved it by asking VRay to tile the bitmap.

You just change the sun in Sketchup, the vray sun takes into account the color of the sky at different parts of the day. You may need to adjust your camera exposure for morning or evening light or your render may come out too dark. Best, Andy

With 64 bit you will be able access to more memory, so you will be able to render higher resolution images and higher poly models. i7 processors are multithreaded and Windows will see 8 cores, so Vray see's 8 cores and you will get 8 render buckets. I found that my i7 renders at least twice as fast if not more than my last workstation which was a high end Xeon. I cant imagine that SU will be slower in a 64 bit environment. I was using 32 bit Photoshop for the longest time and when I went to 64 bit it was night and day. Much faster and more responsive, even it its just an illusion because I access to more memory.

watch this http://youtu.be/8D_3bPg_62w

Cheers guys

Holidays range usually one and a haft months around the shortest day of the year here. Have a good day then.

Hey Kalu, Glad to help! We all learn something. Stefan, I hadn't even seen the rectangular lights at the windows. No wonder the render times were so high, that's a lot of competing lights. I used the global "lights" option to turn off all the light sources. My thought is that if you can't see the difference of the light in the scene with the GI on, you probably shouldn't have it in the scene. Andy

Really cant help you on that. Post your question here http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums where the developers will be able to help you.

Agreed. I have been using 1.49.01 since its release last year and I have never had a Bugsplat. Knock on wood.

@edison said: My V-ray is 1.48.96, windows. Default number is 50, and I made 150, now renders looks great, but takes more time.. Glad it worked for you Do you want to post an updated image?

Are you making that texture from scratch? Or are you trying to make a seamless texture from a photo? On creating a seamless texture in PS: http://www.photoshoptextures.com/texture-tutorials/seamless-textures.htm Or maybe you could try this: http://www.bricksntiles.com/

This topic is veeery old, bud I find myself having the same problem in v-ray 3.4 And I have a beast of a machine - threadripper 1950x + 32 gb RAM + GTX 1080Ti. No luck with xeon at work. Any new info on the solution?

Correct. We have to direct the license server to the folder where the licenses are, this bat file does exactly that.

I'm afraid that Time is something that I'm in desperate shortage of. I guess regulars around here has noticed that I've been less active in the V-Ray section, which is due to the time it takes to make a good reply. I've barely been able to keep in track with my plugins even lately... While I appreciate the praise, "guru" I am not. I just know enough to get me by with what I need. Nomeranda ...or however it's spelled... has been doing some nice tutorials, and he really knows his stuff. Keep an eye on his blog. (will see if I can dig up the link )

i had two windows opened at the same time - the one with 'repository' and the new project. 'repository' -> find desired material -> save material -> open project window -> load material -> catastrophe i followed your suggestion about having two windows open at the same time, so i tried to: open repository -> find desired material -> pack material -> close rep. -> open project window -> load material -> win thanks for reply.

The complete explanation maybe http://nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/10/tip-correcting-textures-that-are-not.html

hi, are you sure, absolutely sure, that lights are enabled in the global switches? Also, check intensity, color, if they are on a hidden layer, if the orientation of faces is right. Hope it's useful