Hi Guys:

I look in to a tutorial for sketchup and I saw this spirals plugins dock does anybody know what is the name of this plugin and what is for? I really appreciate.

Thanks again. Kalu.

Thank you to all for the amazing help. I was visiting my mom sick. I am back and thank you again for an amazing help guys.

kalu.

Thank you for your comments. I try buut I can't make the same effect , does anybody have this model or can help to at least build one of the Blades?

I really appreciate.

Hi Guys:

I have to create a design park for kids for my comunity and I need help. I hope someone can help me to design this wind turbine, since they want some art include I think this would be great for the park. I try to build the turbine without any good result. If soneone can help to build I really appreciate.

Kalu

Thank you Andy for the info, I look in to that right now. Hi Chon, thank you for the info, I am familiar with the video but render in a cloud day is very dificult since the sky is almost white and there is sun but without power, at least alsways is like that here in Seattle.

thanks again both for the info.

kalu.

Hi Guys:

I looking to make a render in a cloud day and I need to know some settings to reduce the power of the sun or some help to make a cloud day not a sunny day. I really appreciate some help. I try to make a building and match a existing photo of the site with the new design and the image have some light but in a cloud day over seattle downtown.

Thanks.

@stefanq said:

Andy, you are spot on! I was about to remove all those omni lights, but I got a bug splat and because it was late at night, I gave up. Before that, I noticed that the rendering buckets stayed to much over that beige-brown wall, and that's simple diffuse material. It was all those lights, as you figure yourself.
Another thing I noticed, was the fact that he have rectangular lights in some of the windows, even if he use Fernando's method for bringing more light through the GI, without having the sun there.So, no need for those lights.
Kalu, as a general advice, you should use components instead groups.The scene will not be as heavy as it is.

Thank you about al your comments, one more thing, about the weight and components, the owner make so much changes that was impossible to make components since change every aspect so many times...

Thanks for the advise...

Kalu-Kelper

Hi to all, Good morning:

I really appreciated all the comments, Andy you make things happened. I make the first render yesterday and now I work on the 3rd. Stefan I really appreciate all the comments too. I was follow all the tricks and comments of Fernando Rentas, and some things may not work well in my scene, things that I was missing was the rect. lights and the omni lights without that all was normal in the time for render. Wow it take quite some time to figure out but thanks to Andy and Stefan and fernando Rentas we make a success. I hope others learn from my mistakes and get some of piece of the pie...

Again guys, you are awesome as usual.

Thank you to all for all the time and effort spend in this matter.

Kalu-Kelper.

Hello Stefanq,

Thank you for your advide, i will try that now, I have a deadline but at this point I am stuck with a ggood result and understand the problem and fix that instead make it happened without understand the problem. Since i have a mix of materials new and older can you attach the material that you use in your kitchen (the metal) I use all the materials that i have and I never achieve the same look. I really appreciate, if you can't can you place all the settings either will be good help. I place my interior settings for someone that want to take a look maybe work for others. I made the settings base on webinars that i take on ASGIVIS, read almost all the comments in the forum and watch video training.

I attach my render settings, If someone have an a idea what is the wrong settings will be good. I just want to reduce my time, a render in 3200 x 2400 should not take more than 5 hours in HQ but 10.5 hours? It's just crazy...

http://www.filesonic.com/file/4032664614/interior_render.visopt

Again I take any good suggestions.

kalu

Hi andy:

I think the problem is the stainless steel material of the kitchen oven and the fridge, and the dishwasher, I replace the material and I have the same time to render 10.5 hours to do a simple render of 1600x 1200. This is crazy time. I save the Lc and the IR and I render with this parameter to a 3200x2400 and when I was 7 hours of process and 60% I just quite the render. I have to make 11 renders and I have not idea what to do. I follow all your comments, watch all the videos and webinars that I paid in ASGVIS with fernando Rentas and I am frustrated and lost....

Any other comment or help will be appreciate.

Please if you have any material that work great as stainless steel in the latest version of vray let me know.

Kalu.

I make a render test ful in color in 400 x 300 and the time was 0h13m14.0s. This is the sample.

@andybot said:

@stefanq said:

Hi!
The only thing that caught my attention, is your irradiance map min and max rate. They are way off.
@3200x2400
min/max = -6/-3

Good point - definitely decrease your irrmap rates as you render larger size. I'm curious - what is your time to render at 800x600? Also, what are your material settings for your glossy materials? Seems like there's perhaps some glossy reflection settings that are very high? By the way, which version are you using right now? Are you using 1.49.01? It has many fixes that help with render speed over the older versions.

Hi Andy I am using the 1.49.01 and I show some of the material settings for some reflection. the time for a render in 800x600 i will test right now and I will post. Thank you so much for your info.

@stefanq said:

Hi!
The only thing that caught my attention, is your irradiance map min and max rate. They are way off. Check this compressive guide:
@800x600
min/max = -4/1

@1600x1200 (doubled once)
min/max = -5/-2

@3200x2400 (double twice)
min/max = -6/-3

@6400x4800 (double 3 times)
min/max = -7/-4
There is a logical explanation about this, but it's just beyond me, so I stick with this guide.
Cheers!

Hi stefanq, I will follow your comments thank you so much for your help.

Hi Andy,

I made all the changes that yo suggested and when I render the kitchen with more shine surfaces (not displacement) it do the same or more time. I can't reduce the mount of time of render, very frustrated... Any other Idea are welcome!

thanks again for any comment.

Hey Andy how are you. I place the same issue in the both places since It would be good for many others that don't boder t ask I always ask questions. I take a couple of webinars in ASGVIS great work but I never achieve a simple reduction in time. I try many options with the version i.48, the latest version since that does not do the work fast enough...

Thank you for any comment I place a the base image of the house here:

Hi to all guys:

After a little while I am back since the ASGVIS is dead, and so the forum. I have a render of 3200 x 2400 and it take me 5 hours with the follow settings to get a great result. I have a Quadcore I7, 12 GB Ram DDR3, Video card 2 GB, etc etc. a Good machine. I am running windows 7 Pro 64 and I've looking to improve speed without kill the quality.

I place all my setting and I want to know if someone can share a better settings to achieve the same goal, Great quality render, FAST instead the 5 hours...

Thank you again in advance for any comment.

Excellent work Mike.

Hi to all:

I try the IVY plugin is awesome what I see but I don't understand what are the steps to make it grow. Can someone place here the shortcut keys to make it work and grow and show leaves and menu for some reason I cant see the menu I have sketchup pro 8 and Windows 7 64.

Thanks.

I talk to the support and many users and almost 100-200 users are gone move either move to another render soft or waiting for the mess to be clean and organize. I have a few comments about news and development and there are promise but really we are last in terms of enhance the soft. Rhino, Maya and MAX are over sketchup. The lack of help and the policy of the company about free materials and video training kills almost 99% of users.

My2cents.

I send 2 open letters to the chaos group and I am still waiting for the response, there is not support at all they only purpose to buy ASGVIS is terminate VRAYFSU. I am sad to see destroy all that Asgvis create most with all the users (beta testers) and the great feedback for people like Fernando Rentas.

Extremely sad I will move to another render engine, Any Ideas about some close to VRAY for Sketchup?

Thanks.