Dear Dave R, dear Fredo, dear (ntx)-Dave, dear Fletch and dear Rich,

many many thanks for all your support so far.

I realized many things in the course of this discussion:

-I should either get a pro version of Vray or twilight as it appears the test versions limit me to post question on forum (vray) or test the renderer with Animator (twilight). Not sure I can afford those for test purpose and artistic use that I practice as a hobby...
-As I'm thinking of creating an NFT Art Piece and given my PC and graphic cards capacity, I might need a pro with the right material to do the final rendering anyway (It takes me 1 min/frame for an 800*450 pix and if I wish to go that way, the resolution should be much higher). (@Fredo, if you know anybody willing to help me, speaking french, with experience in SU, Animator and Vray, let me know in private message.)
-I also had some discussion with a cabinetmaker and another woodworking professional that incite me to modify some part of my model (and hence redo the whole animation). I'll then be able to possibly retest the rendering part.

In any case, I'll keep you posted.

Thanks again for your inputs,

All the best,

Olivier

@fredo6 said:

@darkparadise said:

I also tried with a prior version to the crash and the problem persits. So it's not due to some file corruption of some sort.

I uninstalled Vray and re-installed it, and the problems remains as it is:

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It is so strange. Should I also try to uninstall/install Animator ?

I don't think you need to uninstall Animator (the video management is in LibFredo6 anyway).

Likewise, if this happens with any model, I don't think this is useful to send me the model.

There must be a setting left in VRay which is used by the VRay API. So, I would recommend you post to the VRay forum, asking whether the API has a separate configuration versus the direct rendering within VRay.

Dear Fredo,

the vray forum is locked unfortunately

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Am I missing something ?

Thanks,

Olivier

Dear Dave,

Sorry for my silence, unfortunately no resolution yet. I'll try the vray forum as mentioned by fredo6 and will keep you both posted !

Thanks,

Olivier

Dave, hi again !

I've installed Twilight 2 in Sketchup. Rendering seems fine with the render engine from the software itself, but I can't see it in the Generation of Video in Animator.

Any way to fix this ?

Thanks again,

Olivier

Dear Fredo,

I also tried with a prior version to the crash and the problem persits. So it's not due to some file corruption of some sort.

I uninstalled Vray and re-installed it, and the problems remains as it is:

It is so strange. Should I also try to uninstall/install Animator ?

thanks again for your support.

Olivier

Hi Dave,

thanks for the tip ! I'll give it a try with the hobby version... Are you aware of any limitation with this one ?

All the best,

Olivier

Thanks...

That's why I'm desperate, What other renderer would you use ?

I'll keep you posted for the re-install.

Hi Fredo,

I'm desperate... Do you think that a reinstall of Vray would change something ? Any other idea ?

Best,

Olivier

Thanks again for your help Fredo...

Yes I do... so strange...

here is a comparison of natural vs vray render through animator...

but within vray alone, everything works...

Hi Fredo,

I still haven't found a fix to the problem... I'm getting

Is the setting of the sky in vray correct ? Should I try to re-install vray ? Could I send you the files so that you could do a test on your machine ?

Any help greatly appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

Olivier