@ppoublan said:

I uploaded in sketchucation plugin store a new version that is working with SU2016 and SU2017.

What about your customers that PAID for your plug-in and upgraded to SketchUp 2018? To heck with them fools?

I PAID for this plug-in and have waited PATIENTLY for an update to make it work in 2018, or at least a reply to the many emails I have sent the author, and have been completely ignored.

Still need to figure out how to get alpha to work behind window glass...

Thanks again, filibis,

I also posted on the chaos forum and someone there has helped solve a few issues. All I have remaining now is to figure out why my glass (VRAY glass material), will not let daylight in when I render in CPU mode...

I had to turn the glass off to get this (I dropped a sky background in just to make sure I could still do it):

@filibis said:

If you could describe why you think the ceiling is 'wrong', that would be better.
For me it looks like you have an omni light on top of table and that causes an unrealistic lit in the middle of the ceiling. If that's the case, try removing it or tweaking its settings.

Thanks for your reply, filibis,

What you see on the ceiling is the light from the pendant lights over the island, glaring through the glass cone shaped shades...

I had to crank the lights to get anything to light the interior - to my eyes, the ceiling looks unevenly lit, as if there is NO "global illumination" whatsoever.

Trying to determine HOW to INCREASE global illumination, without a PhD, is mind boggling.

Also, ever try to MAKE a transparent material in VRAY? Try to find the "TRANSPARENCY" adjustment - then TRY to find instructions for how to increase or decrease transparency...

Added a VRAY infinite plane - applied VRAY grass to the infinite plane -- the infinite plane is unusually rectangular (like 1:4) and the grass is stretched and looks obviously wrong through the hole in the box in the render.

If you view the infinite plane in SketchUp, the material looks like it is supposed to.

Must be my computer, huh...

Win7 Pro SU2017, VRAY 3, i7 980, 24G memory, and Nvidia GTX 980...

Started from scratch - created box, cut a hole in the side, added a portal light - changed the intensity from 30, to 5000 to 0, no effect on the interior, whatsoever.

And before anyone gets all Einsteinish - YES the light is enabled.

SO there must be a secret switch somewhere, burried in a place that s NOT obvious, that will get the portal light to actually do something?

@maeglin1 said:

@dkendig said:

There are new tutorials for our public beta that started today!
http:http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/vrayforsketchup_beta.html

Lynda.com have a tutorial course: "Vray for Sketchup" which is the best video I have seen explaining how to go about things. It is simple and clear... unlike some of the videos from ChaosGroup, where it's hard to understand the accents of the teachers.

The worst part of YouTube tutorials is when the narrator starts talking about 500 things a viewer does not need to think, or hear about, at the moment.

Also, it would be nice if someone at Chaos would have thought - gee, a factory reset button would be nice to get novices back to where things start.

I've done what you suggested -- no luck; I am having the same annoying ceiling result even of I follow every step in VRAY's tutorials.

One would think that by 2017, someone could come up with a rendering add-on that makes rendering an interior, easy.

I'm not trying to do a 3D Art school project that has to look like a photo - it just has to be a reasonably clean illustration and spending days reading Chaosgroup tutorials/instructions from 2012, is beyond frustrating, and I shouldn't have to write and essay on every spec of my system or every setting in VRAY, just to create a simple lighted interior illustration that doesn't look like an 11-year old did it.

What is wrong with my ceiling????

SU Pro 2017 Vray 3 (no comments on the interior design please this is just a test render - I downloaded Vray this afternoon).

Any ideas to get me pointed in the right direction will be much appreciated.