Yes actually it was the whole house I was referring to. I have purged unused components....just found out a few of tips which were to :

1. Use wire frame mode when rotating/editing a large object as this works much quicker.
2. Use smaller bitmaps/jpegs for materials when rendering.
3. Use classes (cant believe I didnt use this before!).

@lvl1201 said:

My money is the pc is running out of ram.
How much ram do you have?
If you have more than 4gb then i would suggest to do the LAA thingie (large addres aware).
You can download it from here. (http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112556)
You can try too "cook" your light engines (IR LC or QM) for separated.
30 minutes is NOT that much time.
I used to render on a E8400, final renders took up to 3 hrs.

Hey Thanks! will check that out.

@unknownuser said:

@junior-architect if it's not too late, post the model or section you want to render on the site and maybe some of us can have a look and try and give some tips.

Matthew

My model is about 90 mb lol! how do i decrease the fil size...Rendering Time is taking ages (about 30 mins per render) most times it takes ages to respond of even rotate when not rendering.

Here are the details under Model info - Statistics -

Edges----------------------1715497
Faces----------------------717820
Component Instances--------37201
Guide Points---------------31
Groups---------------------37141
Component Definitions------165
Layers----------------------27
Materials-------------------345

Im guessing I have to decrease Edges and Faces to increase the Rendering speed.

Is there a way to do this?

Oh sorry I am using Vray 1.49.01

Hey i am having problems rendering...they areas follows

1. Rendering Time is taking ages (about 30 mins per render) and sometimes crashes, most times it takes ages to respond of even rotate when not rendering.
   Here are the details under Model info - Statistics -

Edges----------------------1715497
Faces----------------------717820
Component Instances--------37201
Guide Points---------------31
Groups---------------------37141
Component Definitions------165
Layers----------------------27
Materials-------------------345

Im guessing I have to decrease Edges and Faces to increase the Rendering speed.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

Thanks for all your help here is my latest render...what do you all think? be as honest as possible please, constructive criticism welcomed!

Thanks for all your help.

@ stefanq - could you send it again please...im getting a corrupt file - thanks

@ bhbarchitects - WOW thats the type of render i am looking to achieve! Is the furniture rendered in VRay or Added via Photoshop? Oh and excuse my basic knowledge, on the camera drop-down which do i change to between 30-60?

@ valerostudio - Yes i did set it to invisible but i just realised "Show GI only" was selected also...silly mistake...

Thanks will check up on those bitmaps...also i think the problem was in some components downloaded from the sketch up warehouse. Once i deleted these, sketch up was rendering perfectly...(well a little slow but rendering nevertheless).

@ Andybot - Ive just tried your technique but the GI WITH sky came out with more clarity and depth. Thank you for your advice though and il have a look at Fernando Rentas tutorials also.

@ valerostudio - I have added a large planar light to the window however this just blocked off the suns light and i was left with less sunlight on the floor and was a not as realistic as without a large planar light. I have also tried adding a light behind the camera and this worked very well with a Planar light warm colour. Thanks mate!

@ Roger - Nice one mate i will be touching up my render on photoshop once im done and post it up so you guys can have a look at the final outcome.

Thanks again all!

Thanks mate but im trying to avoid indoor lighting for this image as i intend to add indoor lighting for the evening indoor image.

HI there i have created my first 3D image using V-RAY and Sketch Up.

In order to create a bright afternoon shot I have had to increased the GI from 1 to 6 (The 1st image GI is at 1 & The 2nd image GI is at 6.)

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/8880/livingroom12.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1197/livingroom15.jpg

Would you guys advise that or not?

Im under the impression that the GI should stay at 1 for realistic images and the brightness should be adjusted via other parameters if im correct?

I have also increased Subdivs from 500 to 1000 and Caustic Subdivs from 1000 to 2000.

Any other tips are more than welcome.

Thanks.

I used these materials....

http://www.vray.com/free_vray_tools/vismat_material_collection/

@russell.call said:

Hey there. I just downloaded the materials pack and followed the steps above. The material is displayed in the preview fine and changes in the sketchup model but when I go to render I get an error message. The error heading is "ASGvis" and the message reads, "We have encountered errors while trying to render. Please check the error log for more details."
I know this is a vague message but any help would be greatly appreciated.
It might be helpful to note that I don't have sketchup 8 pro and am currently running the trial of vray but I've had no problems with rendering before this.
Thanks!

Hi there i am having the same problem as RUSSELL.CALL please let me know if this issue has been resolved. Thanks.