Cheers for your replies...two different approaches so gives me a busy weekend - It's a steep learning curve, frustrating at times but also gets the old grey matter working.
Do either of you know of any Vray For Sketchup courses available within the London area that you could recommend? Its just the little 'tweaks' that need to be learnt/shown that would help me understand the full render process.
Well tried some new options of the lighting techniques, the one with GI HDRI I like the tonal values but I also wanted the sun light to shine into the room - but this adds a lot of pink/orange to the scene.
This is where I get confused as there's so many different options to choose from... it's a never ending journey of learning (which is a good thing)
I also think that maybe I'm trying to achieve the finished scene within Vray with out taking into account the amount of post work to be done in photoshop which inevitably improves the final quality.
Nice article, I'm just about to try a dome light... As it's lunch time at work.....to see how this effects my settings and results, cheers for the input.
Cheers for your comments. Now with AO on and omni light added. Also knocked back the pure white...improvement but still getting there
Looking for some help as I'm going a little mad. I've spent the last few weeks trying to get to grips with internal renders using VFs Beta 2.0 and Sketchup 8 Pro.
I've spent a while trawling through the 'interweb' looking at other peoples settings, videos etc but I'm still finding it frustrating in gaining a decent interior lighting set up.
This is my latest attempt with my settings..... as you can see there's no/little detail showing in the cornices, everything thing looks blown out.... basically I'm lost!
Any help would be appreciated as I really wont to 'crack' this and have that Eureka! moment when it all falls into place.
Cheers
Agentorange
My problems where never solved so basically left Vray alone (hopefully the new improved version - if its ever released) - will solve many of these issues on a mac.
I now model in sketchup (for speed) and the render in C4D
@thomthom said:
@agentorange said:
Any news from the Basecamp presentation by the Vray gang?
I got to see the future - and it's great!
Even though I didn't get a presentation of proxies there was lots of other really cool stuff there. RT - for those of you who care about that. Progress window is back, some very nice VFB features.
Really looking forward to get my hands on the beta!
Thank you for this update
Tobobo,
This is what I've ended up doing too, although I have had the same problem again a few times - managed to get the rendered model out to the client in time but still unsure of how stable this product is on my mac - which is a shame as I really enjoy using it due to its speed and simplicity and being integrated into Sketchup. Lokks like I may go back to exporting to Cinema 4D and render out from that.
Keep having serious major problems with my Sketchup and Vray models.
I'm currently modelling a large office interior and its been fully modelled and I've started to add Vray materials - most of them downloaded from Chaos and FlyingArchitect (all placed in the same folder on my desktop) - all been going well until I start to render - major crashing happens and then every time I reopen the model all goes well until Vray starts to reload the materials - BANG it crashes. So now I can't even open the weeks work I've done - bugger.
I'm using the most recent Sketchup and Vray - so really a bit annoyed as I've spent a bit of money purchasing these two products - and now its costing me time and effort - which is a shame as I enjoy using both products and produce brilliant results.
The size of the sketch up model is 75meg - is this a problem?
This is the latest vas report but I've had plenty of these this morning
Made it after UIManager.initialize
/Library/Frameworks/ASGVIS.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Ft/Xml/InputSource.py:346: DeprecationWarning: functions overriding warnings.showwarning() must support the 'line' argument
FtWarning, 2)
FtWarning: Creation of InputSource without a URI
My mac is a 2.93Ghz Intel Core i7 with 16 GB of memory so the machines up for the task.
Any help or more info required can be provided.
Just need to find out what the problem is so I can understand why this is happening and if there's anything in the future I can do to my models and render settings to make my work less frustrating.
Drew