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

The problem remain...

Dear Fredo,

thanks for your reply.

Actually, I did restart my machine, but the issue persist this morning.

Any other idea ?

All the best,

Olivier

Hi Dave,

profile updated !

Sketchup 22
Vray for sketchup 6.00.01

PC, Dell 7820 tower with Intel xeon bronze 3204 cpu @1.9 ghz, 48 GB Ram, 2 Nvidia Quadro P1000 graphic cards (4 GB GDDR5. Memory Interface. each)

Let me know if you need other infos.

Best regards,

Olivier

Hi everyone,

Sketchup crashed while I was trying to generate a clip with animator with Vray as renderer. After restarting sketchup, vray and animator, loading my file and launching the video creation process, animator doesn't render the sky anymore while vray is (both with the "Test image" button or the general "Generate Video" button). See screenshots attached.

Any idea ?

Help greatly appreciated !

Olivier

PS I'm speaking french as well.

Just an update...

It seems that the rendering with the GPU withing vray is working, but not when i'm using vray via animator... for an 800 * 450 pix image, it takes 58 seconds. I'm using Cuda with CPU and both cards selected.

Any idea ?

Hi everyone,

i'm relatively new to sketchup and animator and an absolute beginner with Vray. I'm trying to render a 90 seconds movie and it takes ages to render a single frame (to my opinion), ie 50+ seconds.

I've noticed that when processing, the CPU is running at 100%, and the GPU of both cards are not utilized at all.

Some details:

PC, Dell 7820 tower with Intel xeon bronze 3204 cpu @1.9 ghz, 48 GB Ram, 2 Nvidia Quadro P1000 graphic cards (4 GB GDDR5. Memory Interface. each)

Sketchup 2022
Latest version of animator
Vray 6.00.01

The skp file is 8.8 MB.

Anything I can do to speed up things or any suggestion (like trash the pc, buy another card, go back to office application, etc, ) ?

Thanks in advance for you help,

Olivier

PS I'm speaking french as well.