Can i save to an .skm with .vismat link?

[tomb85]

Hi all,

I'm having this problem with .skm and .vismat materials. I'm using Sketchup Pro 8 with Vray 1.6 on windows 7. My materials are stored on a NAS. I was wondering if i save a material in my model to a .skm, will it i some way remember the .vismat related to it?
I would like to just add materials to my model with the paintbucket from my the materials library so that the vismat settings are automatically applied.
If tried this but when I use the paintbucket to paint my .skm i get a bugsplat. When copy/pasting a material from another model, or when embedded in a component, this does work. But when importing directly from the sketchup materials library i get the bugsplat.

Any thoughts?
Thanks

[valerostudio]

Unfortunately, SU8 and VR 1.6 have a bug together that if you apply a SKM to a object and that object has information tied to it, like VR info or Maxwell info, etc. it will cause a BugSplat. You have 3 options.

1. Just right click the SKM and choose add to model,then apply, it should not crash
2. Apply all materials with VR disabled (you can use ThomThom's Vray Tools to restart VR)
3. Upgrade to 2013 where the bug has been fixed.

Honestly, it was the #1 reason for me to upgrade to 2013 as there were no new features that were really all that exciting but I need this bug fixed. I would push Trimble to patch SU8 to fix this bug.

[tomb85]

Sorry for the late response, but thanks for explaining valero!

[dkendig]

I believe Trimble is already working on 2014, I highly doubt they are going to spend even a second, trying to improve SU8