Advice on how to clean the materials out of file and start
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Looking for advice on how to clean the materials out of file and start fresh.
I have file that are two years old that started in Sketchup 7.0 and Vray 1.48. (Mac OS)
They then went to Sketchup 8.0 and 1.49
Now I am working with Sketchup 2013 and Vray 1.6
Crashes seem to caused by the materials palate going bonkers. It add and subtracts materials in the palate as the cursor spins. Then it crashes.
I need to get to the bottom of this or look to a new solution THIS WEEK.
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@dave r said:
Delete him from the drawing window and then go to Window>Model Info>Statisitics. Click on Purge Unused.
quoted from Dave R from another thread. try using the purge all plugin too which streamlines the process.
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you could always revert to 1.49.01 also. Although we appreciate your testing feedback, if it's impacting your workflow, by all means, revert!
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there is also the V-Ray Debugging tool: Plugins->V-ray->Regenerate all V-Ray materials
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Maybe the latter. Devin, what does the bug report say that it was related to the file I sent you?
The form topic posted by Olishea above was helpful.
The debugging command "clear texture cache" has seemed to stop the crashes for now!
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For cleaning materials from model i suggest Thomthom's Material tools plugin. Works OK with vray materials and great for cleaning messy models.
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make - I honestly haven't had time to investigate that report yet. I've been trying to resolve some nasty plugin conflicts that are destroying our stability and causing crashes left and right in both Windows and OSX at the moment. It's taken me a bit longer than I had expected to track down the conflict, but I have some help from TIG, Fredo, Thomthom, and the Sketchup Extensibility Team now, so I'm hoping we will be able to make short work of it from here. I will be looking at your report next, or very very soon though, as it is another crash bug, which has a very high priority.
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I certainly hope you find the crash issues fast. I have several projects that I can not open now as sketchup either crashes on startup or on file opening.
Regards...
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I was able to look at Make's scene, I was unable to reproduce the crash running OSX Lion, SketchUp 2013, and our latest nightly build.
gspalding - sorry you're having trouble on the CG forums, but you don't have to worry about jumping through those hoops to report a bug. Just send us an email: vfswip@chaosgroup.com will submit to our bug tracker, which we use exclusively for tracking down and fixing bugs in V-Ray for SketchUp. Forums and email aren't used to track/fix bugs at all, so if you only wanted to report a bug, there's no reason to even post about it on any forums at all, because Joe (the other developer) and I don't use those forms of communication for that purpose. If you have steps to reproduce the issue, or an example scene file that can be used to reproduce the issue on our machines, please send in a bug report so we can fix this. If the scene is too large, just start deleting things until it's about 10mb in size, and then send it along. The less complex a scene is, that still demonstrates the issue, the better.
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