Thanks for the replies.

I often model this kind of thing too, but thought it would be cool to have as a texture. The texture is tiled along the surface, so should be continuous.

I have bumped up the resolution, so i'll see how that goes.

Any other ideas would be great!

Cheers

Corey

Hi

I am having trouble with a displacement map, which I generated from ZDepth. I'm getting seams along some of the edges...

The geometry is grouped and subdivided. Displacement map filter set to none. Image is TIFF with no compression.

If anyone has any ideas, that would be great!

Cheers

Corey

zip file of model, render and disp map

Hiya

I think you need to synchronize materials under Plugins>VRay>Debugging>Force sync for all materials.

I have this set to a shortcut because it's buried in sub-menus

Cheers

Corey

Hi

Each time i start a new file the Ivy components are present even when i haven't used tool. Not a big issue, but it would be good if these could be added only once you run the plugin.

Cheers

Corey

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

@coreymurray said:

(double sided tick box in option in mat editor)

This tick box only means that the material will be applied to both sides of the polygons.

A Vray2sided Mtl is a really special material. It allows you to have different materials between the front and back sides of your polygons, and blend these two materials together (and the light they receive) depending on a grey value (or map).
This allows you to mimic translucency for very thin objects (one face only): Paper, leaves, curtains, etc.

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Thanks for the explanation Jiminy - that's a really powerful technique.

@majid said:

Better to use a light emitter material for the light bulbs to mimic the colored bulbs, with the same amount of intensity IMO.

Thanks Majid - That's a nice simple solution, i was quite keen on the fall-off/shading on the bulbs which i couldn't replicate with emissive material.

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

You can easily do that using a 2sided material (so you keep only one light type)

Thanks Jiminy - that worked a treat.

Can anyone expand on why? I thought the material was double sided before (double sided tick box in option in mat editor).

The other thing that worked was adding a refractive layer and changing the refraction colour

Cheers

Corey

Hi all

SU2014, VfS 2 Sp1

I am trying to create some colored rope lights - see image.

I have placed an area light inside a colored bulb, which uses a 'standard' material with diffuse color and transparency.

I am wondering why the light on the wall is still white, and why it isn't being tinted by the material that it is passing through.

I guess i could change the color of the area light, but was hoping to retain control of all bulbs via the base component, i.e. same bulb in all lights

Any ideas or comments would great!

Cheers

using 'force sync all materials' then using Cleanup³ seems to help...

Thanks Valero,

I'll keep that in mind and wait for any progress.

Cheers

Corey

Hi all

I'm running SU V2014 and VRfSU V2sp1.

I want to create a proxy library of 3D trees. Many of the the models share the same materials.

I create each proxy from importing .3DS into blank SU file, and materials come in as as they should.

When i add more than 1 proxy to a model, duplicate materials are added with new numbers, even though the multi-materials only reference the correct ones.

This doesn't seem to affect the rendering - even when i remove the duplicates, but i don't really want a whole lot of useless mats in my material editor, especially when potentially placing a lot of trees. Duplicates stay when purged, in SU material pallette or VR material editor

This doesn't happen when using normal SU components.q

Hopefully the images help illustrate my issue - hopefully this makes sense!

Thanks in advance for any help

Cheers

Corey

2dkendig

Thanks for your hard work getting this update out!

Much appreciated!

Corey

Hi Dave - profile updated.

We have just moved to SU2014

Hi all

We have about a floating license setup with about 10 active users.

I want to standardize extensions that are installed so that everyone has access to the same tools.

Would i just get other users to login with the same account?

Any ideas would be great

Corey

@dkendig said:

a service release will be published on our website in the next couple of days to address 2014 support, as well as some other issues that were present in the 2.0 release.

So..... a week later. Hows that service release going?

Copy that Andybot - Cheers

Hi all

Has anyone successfully installed VfSU 2.0 with SU2014?

I'm assuming the problem is location change of plugins folder, but was wondering if anyone had anything definitive to say before i start hacking?!

Cheers

Corey

Ok Thanks CuttingEdge - good to know

Hi All

Does any one know if the VfSU V1.6 Beta (or final further down the track) works with SketchUp 2013?

I'm just about to upgrade our licenses and don't want to get caught short...

Cheers

Corey

try:
http://www.vray.com/vray_for_sketchup/manual/sun_and_sky_in_vray_for_sketchup.shtml