SketchUp loads slow and temporarily goes black
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I am using SU 2013 as I have the V-Ray plug-in and it does not yet work with 2014. I have a brand new Dell workstation with 4 monitors and a Nvidia Quadro K2000 PCIe/ssE2 Graphics card with GL Version 4.4.0. SU loads slow and it goes black before kicking in. What can I do to fix this? Also, I have a 30 MB file and when I render it in VRay it crashes and says I am out of memory. I have 32GB of memory. HELP!
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First of all, which version of Vray SU are you using? This information helps us figure out whats going on. Secondly, sadly having 32GB of ram will do nothing for Sketchup (or Vray for Sketchup for that matter) as Sketchup is only a 32bit program which can use a maximum of ~3Gb of RAM. You should first try purging out all unused components, materials, etc to try to reduce the size of the model. Then if you still can't render normally, try rendering to a file (.exr) and then fix up the image in something like Photoshop or Gimp.
Rob
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Thanks for your response. V-Ray came out with a newer version just yesterday and I am now using it with SketchUp 2014. I have been watching some Daniel Tal videos and discovered that my model had 4,000,000 faces which I guess is too big -- I had lots of 3d landscape. By removing a lot of landscape everything is working OK.
I still have the issue of the black screen when I first load SketchUp and it loads slower than it did on my previous machine that only had two monitors and an older graphics card. Do you know how to fix this? I have all of the new video drivers.
Thanks.
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I'm not sure I understand the question. When you click render, a black window will appear and depending on your scene, it may take up to a minute before you see your light cache come through. I would guess that you are using displacement in your model and this is what is taking so long for VR to calculate.
Does you rendering eventually begin to appear?
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The black window appears on only one of my four monitors when I first load SketchUp. I have the latest drivers for my video card. I have resolved the render issue in V-Ray by eliminating about 3,000,000 faces that were landscape items.
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Opening Sketchup with Vray active will mean longer times for it to be ready to run. Use ThomThoms Vray tools to load Vray only when you need it
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I would recommend exporting that landscape as a proxy if you do want it in the scene. 4mil faces isn't an issue with proxies. It's an issue when they are just faces in SketchUp though, because that means we have to crawl through 4 million entity objects in SketchUp, examine what material is applied to each entity, build the mesh, etc... could take ages. If it's a proxy, the geometry is already in a format V-Ray understands, and it can work with it very quickly and with little overhead.
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