New vray

sketchup_fan

Has anyone bought the new vray for sketchup 7? If you do, could you share your impressions about the render engine with us?

thomthom

Been using the beta. Had V-Ray before that.

Many nice new features.

IES Lights
Ambient Occulsion
Render Region
More procedural maps

Many good improvements:

Materials can be copied between models - V-Ray data is preserved
Missing groups are fixed
Group/Component materials doesn't cause instance parsing slowdown any more
2sided materials accepts bitmap as blending map

Very nice update.

sketchup_fan

Wow, i'd buy it i f i had the money, but you see, i'm missing 350 euros.

steelers05

thomthom....so if I set materials up for an object and started to overhaul my 3d import library, they should import into my projects with the proper material settings? If that is so....im pumped. That would be an awesome workflow change

thomthom

Yea, you can now build components with V-Ray materials pre-setup. Big workflow improvement. Plus the fixed group/component material issue which previously used to add insane processing time.

That and you can render Image elements - and VfSU uses the alpha channel from the diffuse texture.

It's a very good improvement over the old version. Not to mention that this was intended as a pure rewrite to make it work on OSX. We got so much more new stuff. I mean - render region!

broomstick

and ambient occlusion!!

Have you tried the AO in the new version? Does it work well?

thomthom

Oh yea, it works very nice. It often makes the render pick up more details in the corners. But I'm vary of over using it.
The Dirt map is also nice.

broomstick

Yeah I know. Sometimes the AO render is a very nice image in itself! As soon as I get to do something decent I'll post it

nomeradona

additional spotlight too. i think its faster. still trying to look on material editor. still having difficulty with the amount of multipliers. but overall its an excellent upgrade.

Ruturaj

Hi,

that information is very helpful,

but my problem is i can't activate demo version

please help me thanks ............

thomthom

@ruturaj said:

Hi,

that information is very helpful,

but my problem is i can't activate demo version

please help me thanks ............

Contact support@asgvis.com for license problems and program errors.

Ruturaj

@thomthom said:

Contact support@asgvis.com for license problems and program errors.

Hello,

Thanks thomthom.............

edu1987

where is the manual for the new version with all the new improvements?

thomthom

@edu1987 said:

where is the manual for the new version with all the new improvements?

Being written.

sketchup_fan

Thomthom, if i have a model in one sketchup file with vray materials made in the material editor, if i copy the model to another sketchup file, will the materials in the material editor transfer from one file to the other? In the older version of vray the materials didn't pass from on file to the other.

thomthom

with the new version they are transferred. You can make components libraries where V-Ray materials are already set up. And copy between models works as well.

sketchup_fan

Does the new version has come out, or only the beta? Because when i go to asgvis under 'buy' doesn't mention anything that this is the new vray.

thomthom

Did you really look?

On the front page, http://asgvis.com/ it says in the little speech bubble: "Why am I here? To announce the release of the New V-Ray for Sketchup [...]"
When you click on Software, the next screen says in big letter "Introducing The New V-Ray for SketchUp"
Ditto with the Store section.

The new version was released last Wednesday.