Proxy doesn't show on render

gianfranco_bm · 10 Feb 2015, 17:58

Hi, I was modelling my project, and test renders were coming out fine, not taking too long. I added some grass proxies from another project (copy/paste) on a small area and made some more copies of those proxies in that same small area. The test render came out ok as well, pretty fast. So I proceeded to make more copies of the proxies and cover a greater area and that's when I had the problem when rendering; the proxies stopped showing up in the render. I have deleted many copies, trying to have the same initial area covered with proxies, but nothing happens. On the v-ray progress window I found a line that says "Could not load mesh file "C:/Users/...Grass.vrmesh" (address apparently from the computer where the proxy was originally made). But why would it load the first time and not now? Any suggestions on what to do? The file weighs 127 mb, but the render is pretty fast.

Oh and something +/- similar happened with a car proxy I copy-pasted some hours before. I didn't make any copies of that car, but it simply didn't show on the render from the start.

Sketchup version 15.0.9350 64-bit
Vray 2.0

andybot · 11 Feb 2015, 18:10

I've had issues too of some older proxies not showing up when I opened in the most current vfs 2.0. Sometimes you might try copying it in when vray is not loaded. (I use the vray tools plugin to only load vray when I need it.)

gianfranco_bm · 24 Feb 2015, 19:18

Thanks Andy, I tried your suggestion, but I couldn't get it to work. On a similar case, a proxy tree was showing up ok in the render, but a couple of days later, when I reopened the file, it stopped showing up. The textures associated to the proxy were fine. My only solution was importing the original tree model again and creating the proxy again, inside the larger file. This time it did show up.

valerostudio · 24 Feb 2015, 20:35

If you dont have a centralized location for your vrmesh files and move folders around then vray might not be able to find the mesh file. Best practice is to have all meshes live in a proxies library on your local or network drive. if you need to remap the location of a mesh, just right click and your should be a menu item to relocated proxy file.

When you start a render and the log pops up it will show you all maps and proxies that are loaded, if it cant find a file, it will say so.

TedVitale_CG · 27 Feb 2015, 17:29

Be sure you are running the current build, SP3. You can download it at http://www.chaosgroup.com.