Make sure that your grass is a separate object from the pool tiles (or anything else really). Also could be that your grass object has a thickness and that's what i'm seeing come through the pool tiles (hard to tell from looking at this picture). This isn't needed, a flat plane works for grass too.

@fredo6 said:

There may be a bug.
Could you open the Ruby Console before launching and check if there are messages.

Thanks

Fredo

Very strange, works like a charm now Maybe that's what i get for not giving Sketchup some love for 2 weeks Thank you anyway and i'll check the ruby console if it ever does it again

Not sure if this is expected behavior but i fired up Sketchup earlier, it told me there were updates for a couple plugins (libfredo, curviloft, round corners, ...) , i used Sketchucation Plugin Store inside Sketchup to update the plugins and now Curviloft shows a progress bar in the middle of my screen whenever i use it, and it stays there until i submit, which is very annoying. Is it supposed to be like that now ?

Try Curviloft http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28586

Whoops ok, i was still running an old version of V-Ray tools, installed last version and it works fine now !

When i press "Start V-ray" i get :

Error: #<LoadError: no such file to load -- C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/plugins/VRayForSketchup.rb.disabled>
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/VRayToys/vr_loader.rb:101:in load' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/VRayToys/vr_loader.rb:101:in load_vray'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/VRayToys/vr_loader.rb:37

When i press "Load V-Ray on demand" i get :

Toggle
activating...
Could not activate loader. File not found.

Hmmm, does the on demand loader work for anyone with the new v-ray 1.6 beta ? Or did i do something wrong ? lol. I disabled v-ray from extensions, but when i reload sketchup and click "start v-ray" from this plugin, it says in bottom left that it's loading v-ray but nothing happens.

Yes i know, i never had it happen before and it doesn't make any sense. Anyway, thank you Fredo and TIG for trying to help. All this made me realize how addicted i am to Sketchup and all the plugins you guys make. Half a day with Sketchup not working and i was going completely nuts.

OK nevermind, somehow rebooting my pc fixed the problem lol (yes yes, first thing everyone should try when a pc acts weird, i know ! lol)

Checked and everyone has full rights

Windows 7, administrator rights

Nevermind, same thing is happening with 4.7a now too all the sudden .. and sketchup works again when i remove it. I don't get it .. fresh install of sketchup with just libfredo works, anything else i add : bugsplat until i delete libfredo.

Ok, uninstalled and reinstalled Sketchup
Installed Libfredo 4.7c : seemed fine at first
Then went on with installing the sketchucation plugin store : bugsplat
Removed plugin store : still bugsplat
Removed libfredo 4.7c : sketchup works again
Installed all my plugins except libfredo 4.7c : works
Installed libfredo 4.7c again : bugsplat
Uninstalled libfredo 4.7c and installed 4.7a : works

I think something is wrong with 4.7c checking for updates of other plugins or something like that ?

Haven't installed any plugins lately.

Ok just tried again to make sure.

Step 1 : delete everything in plugin folder.
Step 2: start Sketchup to test : works
Step 3 : download libfredo 4.7c from 1st page here, unzip to plugins folder
Step 4 : start Sketchup to test : bugsplat

Hmmm i have a problem suddenly that if i have libfredo 4.7c installed, my Sketchup bugsplats. Worked fine yesterday. Tried reinstalling, clearing plugin folder : sketchup works then and keeps working while i put my plugins back until i put libfredo back. Even tried clean install with just libfredo installed, no other plugins at all, crashes too .. looks confused. Can i get 4.7a somewhere still to test with ? Or anybody has any ideas what the problem might be ?

Oh wow, yes it works with 3 groups selected ! Strange lol

Yes i do, i select 2 sollid groups, open the launcher, search for Union, it finds it (says Tools > Sollid Tools), i click it and nothing happens, both groups stay selected too.

Love this tool but for some reason, when i use it to select the native Solid Tools, it finds them but clicking them doesn't do anything ?

@thomthom said:

You're looking to create brick walls where there bricks sticks out significantly from the mortar? You might want to use displacement then - given the view you posted earlier. If you enable Ambient Occlusion you'll enhance the effect in the mortar grooves.

I don't want the bricks to stick out that much really, but right now it looks like in one spot they stick out more than in the other spot. I'd like it to look the same.

@thomthom said:

@missy_x said:

I'm guessing the bump depends heavily on the lighting (or maybe cam angle ?) too, or so it seems from the last thing i've tried. The brick in the shades parts seem to pop out much more than the ones in the light. The again, on the far right wall, the bumps are clearly visible even in the light while on the closest right wall they're much less, is that because of the cam angle ?

Yes, the light and camera angle will impact the effect.
Do you have a reference for the effect you want to achieve?

Would it be possible to get the effect from the closest left wall on the closest right wall without making the effect more on the closest left wall ?

And thank you for all the help btw