@andybot said:

OK, so as an end user, I am just seriously underwhelmed by the state of SU development. For my uses, there has not been a single thing that I haven't already figured a workaround for since SU8, or seen any game changing developments. Shadows are better you say... I don't use shadows when I am using SU. Layout... pffft! I use a real drafting program - AutoCAD. You know, lineweights, hatches, stuff that's been around since even before I first used ACAD 20 years ago...
C'mon!!

Im in the same boat. I really wish Software company's were more transparent with the direction they were planing on travelling. Im the same as you Andy and dont upgrade for the use of Layout. I was really disheartened reading the Conversation between John Bacus and ronenbekerman http://www.ronenbekerman.com/sketchup-2014-released/
It just seems everything that I personally wish SU to be, John Bacus is militantly apposed to.

@cjryan said:

I've had great results with my ASUS Republic of Gamers G750JH-DB71 17.3" Notebook , it's heavy, and the power block is the size of a brick. But it rocks SU. I'm not that familiar with "Lumion", but I also use it for renders, and I'm a heavy PhotoShop user. It handles everything I throw at it.

Just a moment...

(www.bhphotovideo.com)

For what it's worth...

Chris

This laptop is def on my wish list, Ive had the G74sx for the last 2 years and its done a great job.

I have had that Laptop for the last 2yrs I think. Its been so good that my next laptop upgrade will be another Asus G(what ever it is then). I still run a desktop with higher spec's at the office. But needed another option for presenting to clients or working from home.

I use Sketchup, Autocad 2012, Vray4Su, Thearender. All of which work fine.

The laptop is a tank. I'd call it more of a mobile desktop rather than a laptop. Like Rich said mine has a GTX560m 2gb which is a good card for a laptop. But I drool over the latest G75 with the GTX780m 4bg. Mmmmmmmmmm very nice.

@dkendig said:

sorry, I get a lump in my throat when I hear any sob stories about 1.49.01. It was a very difficult release, many emotions involved, and sometimes I get a bit defensive.

Sorry Devin
Hate the thought I've made you feel like that. The way I saw it you were not given the chance to bug fix before being pushed into making the new version. I wouldn't complain if i had the money to splash out on Vray2. Id just get on with it. But new house, new kitchen and brothers wedding overseas equals zero money in bank. Hope to upgrade next year.

Hey hey I never said that i wanted a free upgrade. I totally understand that Vray2 is full of well worth buying features. But I do feel that the upgrade price is very high for people whom have had a pretty rough ride with previous versions. I'm just comparing prices and experiences with other render software such as Thearender.

Yes I was able to make money off rendering with 1.49.01, but also feel I lost money with its instability and god knows how many days/weeks spent researching work rounds. No insult to developers whom we all know work very hard and had their development road map changed when Chaosgroup bought ASGvis. Also the nightmare from what I hear developing a software within Sketchup's limitations.

I will upgrade at some point because a stable Vray is a fantastic tool. I was just voicing my opinion and frustration which i think I'm entitled to after blood sweat and tears with 1.49.01, which i realize isn't gona change a thing cos the price is the price.

Ok.....now time for me to let it go and convince my partner that Vray will be a good investment.

Still bugs me that we have to pay big money to upgrade to Vray 2 because the last version was never fixed. I just simply can't afford to upgrade at present. I lost pacientence using previous version.

What version Vray are you running?

Hi All

Does any one know how long we have to upgrade from the old version to Vay2 ?

After finally getting into the property market and having a brothers wedding overseas Im short of cash for the next couple of months.

Cheers
Jonathan

Hi all, been away from Vray testing because of heavy work load and haven't installed the latest beta. Did I miss something big, does Vray 1.6 use GPU to RT render?

@valerostudio said:

Also, how easy is it to install a GPU? I have a ASUS Gaming Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M, 16 gigs of ram. Approx how much does it cost and is it possible to install it on my computer? Does it make a huge difference in rendering time? is it like having a separate rendering engine... so i can continue to work on the model wile it renders?

I have the same laptop. Your GPU is the GeForce GTX 670M which is pretty fast considering it fits into a laptop. Like I said above I dont know if Vray 1.6 uses GPU's, but using the GTX670M with Thea Render RT works very well. So your GPU is fine

Pure class

Im trying to reorganize my computer. I work from an office and from home. Do you think the best option for me is to have all my materials saved on to an external HHD?

@andybot said:

@lcarlin247 said:

I am going crazy, i just installed the new vray for sketchup 1.6 beta, and every time that i apply a material on a surface the bugsplat screen appears, does anyone know why is this happening??

There's a very painful bug with SU8 where some materials applied from the SU material palette cause an immediate bugsplat. SU7 and SU2013 do not have this problem

Oh yes they do. Read my post above. I did a clean sweep, installed 2013 and no other plugins other than Vray. I just can't seem to fix it. I've tried alsorts of things.

@lcarlin247 said:

I am going crazy, i just installed the new vray for sketchup 1.6 beta, and every time that i apply a material on a surface the bugsplat screen appears, does anyone know why is this happening??

Yup me to on my Home Laptop, I deleted everything, plugins the works. Then installed SU 2013 and Vray Beta 1.6 and the same problem happened. Crazy thing is its not happening on my work computer. Ive sent a bug report.

@3dita said:

Hi there! Not sure what the problem is, but maybe you can try putting an alpha image of the leaf in the white channel of the fresnel reflections.

Your issue made me think about the fact that I never add reflection to a trasparent bitmap...

Thanks for your help
I had tried to put that inverted alpha into the Fresnel slots before. The result came out with a chrome like reflection. What I forgot was to lower the value of the reflection multiplier. I had to reduce it to 0.1. So you were right.

@valerostudio said:

I am working on a tutorial that will explain how to use Blender to make meshes. It will be up on the Chaos forums in the next day or so.

Cheers mate
That would be so helpful

Hi
Im a bit rusty on Vray. Its been awhile since Ive done a project with it. Im having trouble remembering how to do things. I imported a 3ds model which was mapped with tiff images to make into a proxie. The tiff images have transparency. When I try and make a reflection layer, reflections show up in the transparency areas. How do I fix this? I feel I should know this, but like I said its been awhile.

@pepa said:

@holmes1977 said:

Hi
Im working alot more from home so using my Laptop
-ASUS G74
-i7 CPU @2.00Ghz
-8 GB RAM
-Win7 64bit
SU8 Pro
Im having problems with using this pluggin. I draw a simple rectangle, select the rectangle, select Subdivide selection, which divides the rectangle. I again select subdivide selection and I get a bug splat. I have tried this 10 times with the same result every time. Ive uninstalled the Artisan and re installed it, but still with the same result. This problem does not happen on my work computer. Do I need to delete all pluggins and slowly reinstall to see if there is a conflict?

Hi I tried instal new vray 1.6 and started exactly same issue. If are you using new vray try turn it of in extension panel or uninstall it, works for me.. maybe some ruby conflict

BINGO
You are so right. I turn off Vray4SU 1.6 beta and it works fine. Thanks so much. Im gona post this in the beta forum.

@bahri said:

Hi ...Could you please share about the render setting for a good result like interior and exterior setting..i'm using thea too but never get a good result like yours..

I haven't tried to do an interior in Thea yet. Best to go to the Thea site and ask for help. They are a friendly lot over there.

@mitcorb said:

Hi, holmes:
Can this be anything to do with the "physical" size of the rectangle? or scale? Just asking. I don't know if that is relevant.

The rectangle is randomly about 5m by as 10m. Its really got me beat

Hi
Im working alot more from home so using my Laptop
-ASUS G74
-i7 CPU @2.00Ghz
-8 GB RAM
-Win7 64bit
SU8 Pro
Im having problems with using this pluggin. I draw a simple rectangle, select the rectangle, select Subdivide selection, which divides the rectangle. I again select subdivide selection and I get a bug splat. I have tried this 10 times with the same result every time. Ive uninstalled the Artisan and re installed it, but still with the same result. This problem does not happen on my work computer. Do I need to delete all pluggins and slowly reinstall to see if there is a conflict?