Vray for Sketchup - Materials

dkendig

Hi, can someone help me please, I am using SketchUp 7.1 with the latest version of V-ray on a Mac 10.6.2 and every time I tried to use the material editor, SketchUp just quits. Even with vismat or jpg image by creating v-ray material in the material editor it quits and also when using the bump and displacement the same thing happens. Any ideas please.

You said "every time I tried to use the material editor, SketchUp just quits". What do you mean by "use"? Are you opening the material editor? Are you rendering a material preview? Are you clicking on a material? Are you importing a material? Are you creating a material? Are you modifying a material? Are you editing a texture? Are you adding a texture? Are you removing a texture? Are you using a specific override map or setting? What are you doing? If the rest of your post was supposed to explain that, then I apologize for not being able to understand anything you're saying. We would like to help though, if we can. You said you tried to contact us about the issue, and you waited a week? How did you contact us? We don't use our forum as a point of contact. Email support@asgvis.com if you want us to answer you.

raddern

Hi, There were actually some issues with the new version of V-Ray after my last communication with the support team. I sent them the vistmat materials, they tried them and same thing happens, so they said they needed to do a patch. The issue was the importing of the vistmat materials that causes the problems.

Kaczor

Hello everybody. I'm looking for sample scene with globe to render sample of material (example 1, example 2). I couldn't find it anywhere.

thomthom

I believe that they are Rhino scenes. Think I remember seeing a reference to it in the Rhino section over at ASGVis.

chango70

Anymore finds anyone?

boo9ie

Hy, i'm new here, so i appologize if i post in the wrong place.
My problem is i recently started using vray for sketchup, actually, i'm still learning. As i red the manual for vray, i discovered there is something missing from my program. This might sound stupid, but i don't know if i have vray materials. In the manual it shows that if i right click on a surface, there should be "V-ray for sketchup"...in my model, it does not appear...
Does this mean i have no materials, or i haven't installed vray properly...i tried to download materials for vray, but i don't know where to copy them..
please help. Thank you

thomthom

It is because you are using the first version of VfSU

Since SR1.0 the menu was not there because all materials are automatically linked.

When asking questions it'd useful to post what version of VfSU you are using.
There is the first version, that didn't list any version number.
SR1.0 - v1.00.74
SR1.5 - v1.05.30

And now the latest which is a complete rewrite that provides OSX support:
v1.48.?? (can't remember exactly what is the latest revision number)

thomthom

I'm sorry - you do NOT have the original version. But you are reading the manual for the original version.

ali64risk

hi
i have a question about Displacement...
please see the attached file by the link below:
http://www.2shared.com/file/PlBGMQqP/Desktop.html
it contains vismat material and visopt options which I used in my rendering.
when I render first skp, the result is the first jpg...
but when I add a simple plane without Displacement (second skp), the Displacement of first plane is gone (as you can see in second jpg)!
please tell me what is wrong here?

andybot

@ali64risk said:

hi
i have a question about Displacement...
please see the attached file by the link below:
http://www.2shared.com/file/PlBGMQqP/Desktop.html
it contains vismat material and visopt options which I used in my rendering.
when I render first skp, the result is the first jpg...
but when I add a simple plane without Displacement (second skp), the Displacement of first plane is gone (as you can see in second jpg)!
please tell me what is wrong here?

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

ali64risk

thank you Andy...
my problem solved

ali64risk

hi...
i have a problem with vray texture color.
I chose a texture in:
vray --> material editor --> Diffuse --> texture editor (m) --> textBitmap
how can I change the color of texture for vray rendering, like what we do in sketchup rendering in
sketchup --> materials --> edit --> color
does any one know how I can solve this problem?
thank you

thomthom

@ali64risk said:

hi...
i have a problem with vray texture color.
I chose a texture in:
vray --> material editor --> Diffuse --> texture editor (m) --> textBitmap
how can I change the color of texture for vray rendering, like what we do in sketchup rendering in
sketchup --> materials --> edit --> color
does any one know how I can solve this problem?
thank you

Change the colour with an image editor, like PhotoShop or Gimp. VfS doesn't support the colour adjustments in SU.

ali64risk

@thomthom said:

@ali64risk said:

hi...
i have a problem with vray texture color.
I chose a texture in:
vray --> material editor --> Diffuse --> texture editor (m) --> textBitmap
how can I change the color of texture for vray rendering, like what we do in sketchup rendering in
sketchup --> materials --> edit --> color
does any one know how I can solve this problem?
thank you

Change the colour with an image editor, like PhotoShop or Gimp. VfS doesn't support the colour adjustments in SU.

thanx...
and one thing more:
is there any way for changing textures width and height in vray like what we do in:
sketchup --> materials --> edit --> texture
(I am using V-Ray 1.48.91 td)

thomthom

@ali64risk said:

is there any way for changing textures width and height in vray like what we do in:

You use SketchUp to do that - VfS uses the width and height set in SU.

@ali64risk said:

(I am using V-Ray 1.48.91 td)

Update to the latest - 1.49.01. Lots of bugs are fixed.

ali64risk

@thomthom said:

@ali64risk said:

is there any way for changing textures width and height in vray like what we do in sketchup?

You use SketchUp to do that - VfS uses the width and height set in SU.

thank you Thomas...
but what you said is exactly my problem

I used a material from:
Sketchup --> materials --> select --> Colors-Named

then:
Vray --> material editor --> maps --> bump (or displacement) --> texture editor --> TextBitmap

and I chose a texture to bump (displace) the color I had chosen.
how I can change the width and height for the bump (displacement) texture?

thomthom

Add a dummy texture in SketchUp. Just a tiny solid colour texture. It's required for SU to generate mapping data.

ali64risk

Thank you Thomas

valerostudio

You will not be able to convert MAX VRay materials but you can take the diffuse, bump, reflection, etc maps and make your own materials from them. The best resource is the Chaos Group website, but you need to be registered. The other resource out there is http://luzindirecta.org/. I would not use the Material Studio if you are using the latest 1.49.01 version because a few things changed since that studio was created and I think it might be outdated. Can someone else confirm this? Your best bet is to take a few minutes and watch a couple of the videos on Chaos Groups YouTube Channel. You can watch the SU and Rhino videos because the principles are the same.

ali64risk

hi everyone
i started to learn interior rendering with vfs
I need some tips and techniques for how to provide light source and where to place it in closed rooms, and how to show lamps and lights in rooms.
can anyone gives me some related links?