I some times use the override materials option on my entire model, apart from on the materials I am wishing to render where i untick 'effected by override material' within the material editor. if its an interior scene remember to have any glass also unticked otherwise you will end up with no natural light coming in

@gaieus said: Change it to something high indeed but also press the check button. I think that will trigger the next update. so far so good, it works. THanks

@andybot said: My workaround for this is to do the copying and pasting with the vray plugin disabled. (actually, I just do my copy and paste on another machine instead of the one I have vray on.) Works, nice trick wish i had done that earlier

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There's a wealth of built-in inference/snaps and modifier-keys too. BUT these are not 'scriptable' or editable. Shortcut keys to common tools are very powerful and in many ways better thanA CAD - in SUp a single 'L' >>> Line, versus 'L+space/enter' for ACAD or 'LL' for Revit. You need to practice using them in varying circumstances - ans get to understand that SUp is not ACAD - it's different, and more suited to 3d modeling work. The pulled out direction line is colored RGB if on axis and holding Shift locks it, or the arrow keys pre-lock directionality to the axes. A magenta line is parallel or perpendicular to a line over which you have just hovered. An arc/circle center is the snap if you have just hovered over one. Picked points assume vertex, on-edge, edge-middle etc depending what's under the cursor. Modifier keys used with other tools change them to copy [M+Ctrl or R+Ctrl]; auto-fold [M+alt]; or hide lines [E+shift] or soften [E+Ctrl] etc etc...

You just change the sun in Sketchup, the vray sun takes into account the color of the sky at different parts of the day. You may need to adjust your camera exposure for morning or evening light or your render may come out too dark. Best, Andy

You can take a vismat glassmaterial from chaos group. First you have to download some materials : http://www.vray.com/free_vray_tools/vismat_material_collection/ Load it in the material editor and apply material to selection. Play with the reflection (set:1) and reflecion glossiness (0,85). This will work. Succes

actually i searched but a lot of posts containing the word trees came up. it was greatly difficult to find my requirement in that huge no. of posts.

TIG's method works extremely well. I've used it to create elements for various grilles. I can make a grille of any dimension quite rapidly with just the three components. [image: 5979597868_808f4b6fcc.jpg]

And thats why V-Ray rocks!

THANKS Gaieus!!

You want to "bind" the XREF to the drawing before import (do this to a copy of the drawing). Or you can import a dwg of the XREF file separately.

Have you tried Thomthom's vray toys? There is an aspect view setting with the plugin.

I've attached my leather material for you. Just change the diffuse1 color to edit the leather color. When you import into SU you will see a BW image and no color on the leather in the model, this is how you adjust the scale of the bump map. Currently, this is the only way to visually do this. Its one of Fernando's workarounds. Adjust the reflection and bump as needed. Leather.zip

I think this article has the basic answers to this question. http://galaxycityradio.com/2012/01/04/biased-vs-unbiased/

With decay set to inverse sqaure, you will need a much higher value than 5. I set my Units to Radiant power (W) and use a value between 100-300 depending on the scene. Also, I would not use pure white as your color. In reality lighting gives off either cool or warm tones depending on the type of fixture. I like to set my omnis to a very light warm yellow/orange.

@valerostudio said: V-ray really is not a simple rendering engine. I would say that if you can get through the PDFs I posted and all the YouTube videos that Chaos has posted, you will be in good shape. Up. where are the pdfs that you've posted.?? ..link please. Im mostly interested in lighting, coz that's the chief thing in renders, materials i know and r easy 2 setup

@john2 said: @charly2008 said: Hi, I used the free PDF Creator charly how are you able to get this?!! i tried pdf creator but im not able to get the same result as yours. i'm still getting the old white pdf. is there any setting that you do? What are the exact steps that you take to make a pdf? In google chrome i'm just right clicking and print and i get the pdf. Charly's example is just a bunch of (rasterized) screenshot placed into a .pdf.. if you're ok with that then it opens up a lot more possibilities? -with the 'white' pdfs you're making, you can keep zooming in and the text remains crisp because the font size is actually updating instead of simply zoom in on a rasterized font.. -you can select & copy/paste etc from the 'white' pdfs -the links will remain active (if they're written in http:// form..) zoom in on charly's pdf for comparison and you'll see the difference.

It's been discussed a lot. Chaos Group says after they release Vray for Rhino update, then they will focus on rolling out Vray for SketchUp with all the improvements from the Vray for Rhino update. Rumor is an RT window, proxies, DR Spawner that works, etc.

@unknownuser said: Can you not simply move them out of that folder? Customize Settings (the wrench) > Bookmarks > Bookmark Manager Just select and move all your bookmarks to the appropriate folders. Maybe that's too simple.