we were hoping to add hide/unhide support during animation, but I don't believe we were able to add that for this service release. It should be in the 3.0 release though.

If you are teetering on the edge of crashing, I would suggest exporting any "finished" geometry as a V-Ray proxy. Especially if we're talking about a component that is reused many times (like support beams, street lights, etc). If you are running a 64bit OS, the 64-bit workflow is rather helpful as well: http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/distributed_rendering.htm#settings

yes, it's a service release. It will be version 2.00.24261 I believe. We are experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment, but it should be posted on the site soon.

well if people would stop trying to hack our website, that would help... Not sure if you saw this notice at the top of the Chaos Group website, but it says in bright red:
"Notice: We may have been the target of an attempted website breach. To be safe, all website passwords have been reset. You can reset your password here."

Look guys... I know you want this service release, but trying to hack our website isn't going to speed things along

looks like the texture being used for the environment/dome light is not transferring to the dr node for some reason.

if the uv mapping tool you use, is calling make unique for the material on each face, then you're going to get a unique texture for each face.

Why are you using 1.60.22982?....

@unknownuser said:

I'm trying to render a medium size file (around 25mb)

File size is misleading. I've had a 10kb file run out of memory. SketchUp stores texture information in the scene, compresses some things, doesn't compress other things. Don't worry about the file size, that's not the issue. Memory usage is all you should need to worry about.

@unknownuser said:

I'm using VRay 2.0 and Sketchup 2013 and I'm trying to render a medium size file (around 25mb) in a high output quality (3000x2250) but everytime it crashes. I know sketchup is a 32 bit program and it uses only 3.5gb of ram.

how much ram is being used?

@unknownuser said:

1. Increase you Dynamic Memory limit

the dynamic memory limit is in place, to avoid using too much memory while rendering dynamic geometry (displacement, proxies, etc). Raising this value is going to give V-Ray the green light to use MORE ram, not less...

@unknownuser said:

I already tried to purge my model (lines, faces, materials...), to render in .VRimg .EXR and .hdr (with and without the preview window) and it keeps crashing.]

@unknownuser said:

2. Try rendering using 64 bit using the local Spawner technique.

Here's a link to what Valerostudio is talking about:
http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/distributed_rendering.htm#settings

timmyd2283-

@unknownuser said:

so, does it mean we cant use vray 1.6 in sketchup 2014?

Correct, but since there is no legitimate 1.6 version, and only expired beta/demo versions of 1.6 which give you watermarks, you will be able to continue getting watermarked renders with the 2.0 service release demo for SketchUp 2014, which will be available on our site in the next couple of days.

shoopa -

@unknownuser said:

will it be possible to release vray 3.0 core for sketchup2014?

short answer, no, probably not.

@unknownuser said:

WHY IS SKETCHUP COMMUNITY ALWAYS 2 STEPS BEHIND MAX etc. USERS?

There are many features that SketchUp lacks, which make it nearly impossible to support certain features of V-Ray. Prime example of just how behind SketchUp is... they don't have any concept of what a light is... or even better... what a mesh/object is. I understand the frustration, but our goal is to match the V-Ray for Max release as much as possible. In the past year we have hired more developers, testers, and have made some decent strides towards a more stable and feature packed product.

@unknownuser said:

You put proxy in new vray for su, but still its better to do the vrmesh in max - its lighter this way....

If you're referring to the time it takes to generate a proxy, that has been addressed in the pending service release.

@unknownuser said:

HOW MUCH ADESK IS PAYING YOU FOR THE DELAY`s WITH CURRENT VRAY RELEASES FOR SU?

ROFL

should be on the website soon, I'm not sending out beta versions anymore. Just wait a little bit.

I loaded up 1.49.01 a couple of days ago, to check for compatibility and upgrade issues that might be present in the 2.0 service release... It was a very sad experience... If you're not upgraded yet, you are DEFINITELY missing out. I had forgotten just how slow that version was in comparison to 2.0. I highly recommend you grab a demo from our site and give it a spin, if you haven't done so already. You won't believe the difference between the two versions.

you just have to run the installer again, and choose the SketchUp 2013 installation folder, rather than 7 or 8

@coreymurray said:

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

Actually, they changed the version of Ruby that is used in SketchUp 2014, which should break compatibility for a lot of plugins.

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.

it won't be addressed in the upcoming service release, but it will be something we look in to for our 3.0 release.

Trimble changed the version of Ruby that is used in SketchUp 2014, and as a result, our 1.49.01 product is not going to work. We have a service release for our 2.0 build that will address compatibility, but unfortunately we were unable to add support for SketchUp 2014 for our 1.49.01 build.

We have finished developing the service release that addresses this issue, you should expect to see it available for download on our website in the next couple of days.

oh! Yes, that's very annoying, and unfortunately we have no fix for that at the moment, nor will that be fixed in the service release. The window isn't being minimized, it's just losing focus. Very confusing issue, and VERY frustrating to track down!! Sorry it's giving you a headache, we will hopefully be able to address it when we update our UI for 3.0.

I have never seen this... could you record this happening with a screen capture app like Jing? (http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2405948?tstart=0
command + ~ key switches between documents within a given app on OSX, but on windows you need a 3rd party app to accomplish the same task

do you think you could upload the file so we can try to reproduce it in a nightly build?