Did anyone every make a plugin for or find a solution to this? I am experiencing this now and it's extremely time consuming to sit and watch each scene render so I can manually change to the next scene, where certain objects are hidden / unhidden.

If I just hit render, whatever is hidden or unhidden in the first scene is how all scenes come out. Only thing close to a solution I've found is to manually change each scene in between renders... which means I cannot sleep tonight lol.

Thanks!

i got frustrated and slammed the shutter speed up to 200 just to see what would happen and it actually came closer to my desired results. The problems now are there is less glow and I am guessing I will need a ton of spot lights to illuminate the scene now since it appears so dim. SO weird.

with your settings

closer but still very white.

let me check out your settings.

thanks! will try and report back

Look... it reflects the correct color and intensity but no matter what i try, it emits the bright white

I'll keep adjusting until i am doing this the right way with the right settings but in the interim, for this current project which i am trying to finish within the hour - why does this happen (attached)?

The slightest change in color or multiplier (value of 1) turns the color white. I know I have had previous projects where the value was 30 or even 100 and had a perfect glow to it and maintained its color, didnt change to pink or white... something must be different that I am not noticing.

Here are the results with those last suggested settings.

Those changes produce basically black results...(same intensity - 20)

Physical camera on

heres a shot of my lights set up

Mmmmm I see...
Can you give a little more guidance on how to accomplish adjusting scene exposure? I am currently using 4 lights to illuminate the whole scene, no sun or bg color... each light is at about 20 intensity. Thanks!

So I made a model with a glowing color in it (blue.) Settings looked perfect once I rendered.

I need to change the blue to purple.

I adjusted the blue color that was working previously to a purple and all of a sudden the emissive layer became WHITE and will not change to purple unless I bring all values to 1, which means no emissive light-glow happening.

When I start from scratch and add purple, then add the emissive layer to the purple, and then increase values, it turns bright pink... unless I keep the values so low there is no glow happening. I need it to glow purple, not pink. What the hell is going on here?

I just want the same effect I had happening with the blue lights to happen with a purple light.

Someone please assist.

Thanks!

Ed

Indeed, I am... or at least I was... Just had to use the "ZIP file with a different 'extension'" technique...

Saved the rb as a zip and then change the extension to .rbz for it to work. This plugin is wonderful and the help I get here is unmatched, thanks!

BTW, I'm pulling really old .max files, opening htem in the 3ds demo, saving them as 3ds and then opening them up in SU and running this plugin. So far the results have been amazing.

Ed

Hello, when I download this plugin, it is saved as an "rb" file. Sketchup doesn't see this file when I try to find it form the sketchup, preferences, plugin window. It seems to be looking for "rbz"

This is my first plugin I am installing so pls bear with me if this is a common issue.

thanks,

Ed

FIXED!

I guess I deleted the plant while batch render was in progress. I just had to stop the rendering process, delete it again, purge unused materials, save and close. When I re-opened the model and did a test render, the plant was gone... hopefully forever.

Thanks anyway... hope this can still be helpful for someone

Thanks,

Ed

Hello all,

It has been a while since I have been stumped but this is an interesting one...

I created the attached model in SU, added a couple of plants from the 3D Warehouse, set up my scenes to batch render over night and then hit render.

Only problem with the finished renderings is one of the plants decided to show up right in the center of my axis, even though I did not place it there and it doesn't even show up when I am working on the model in SU. I even went into Outliner and deleted the plant all together from my model but when I hit render, the thing still shows up.

PLS HELP!

Thanks,

Ed

@ dkendig, indeed I did... I always appreciate all the help I get from everyone here. I'm going to try not having VRFSU loaded when I have (2) instances of SU loaded at the same time. Thanks everyone!

Silly question though, when would I save a material? Wouldn't I have loaded it from a saved location in the first place?

hmmmmm some interesting info has been uncovered here... i do often have multiple windows of sketchup open, i do often copy and paste entities between projects and Vray is always loaded. Looks like i should learn what a vismat is

video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

What the hell!!!!!!!!!

Why does sketchup do thisssss! I have a model... I render it. I change views and click to render again only to have it say "v-ray is processing" and then after it hangs, it just closes the render window and sits there like it never started the rendering process. This is so freakin annoying. I dump all the unused materials and save and close. Then I open it and hit render and it works. Why is this so hit or miss? any suggestions? I can't keep saving and closing and opening project just to hopefully get a scene rendered before it stops working.

Thanks