oh wow! i dint know selecting some thing would effect the preference menu! thanks a lot!

is there a way of assign a hotkey to "make unique" ? i cant seem to find it and it seems like it would be a good thing to have. am i missing some thing?

this worked...

http://markmail.org/message/o6zwdcccfwjevgic

the darndest thing happened today. i havent been using SU for a few months in the office, when i opened a previous model i noticed that none of the shadows were casting on model. i get shadows on the ground plane but not on any face. if i open the same model in some one elses computer i get shadows. i cant figure out what could be wrong... any sudgestions?

i had either followed a link from here or from sketchup artist. it has been quite a while. this is sort of a try to find it.

i disticly remmeber the green trees and sketchup boxes.

it was a tutorial about visualisation and had very easy to follow box diagrams drawn with sketchup and pencil. i need it to explain to some one about setting up cameras properly in sketchup, perspective angles, rhythm and what not.

does any one know of what im talking about?

is there a style that makes hidden lines dashed in sketchup?

cheers mate! now i know why i couldent find a solution for it google.

hm maybe a newbe question but im using sketchup 7.1 and cant find my sandbox. i want to pay. has it gone the way of the dodo along dwgs?

sketchup 7.0 with the first version of vray 1.5 i dont think it was ever updated.

i imported a glass material from the internet. i dont know how to make linked materials

i think its a legit version of vray. its our office computer and they are kind of stifflers about things like that. i would have to get back to the office to see

the shadow length should be about twice the actual length. so i should be able to see some thing.

thanks holms, ill give them a try.

the problem was a group and not a component but it was inside many components and groups so kid of hard to tell. i managed to get the group to render finaly after many explosions.

to apply glass vray material to model i sellect every thıng that is glass, right click on the white face and apply, then on the purple face and apply right?

will opening and closing get rid of the group/component rendering bug in vray?

my scene has heavily nested components and groups so ı cant go and explode all the components. would some thing like making the scene one large component and re aplying it from the component manager do the trick as well?

i have been trying out vray for 3 months now and i still cant get the hang of how SU relates to Vray. lights also wont render some times if they are in components withc makes me very sad. and glass and mirror materials act all funny depending on lots of small things like where i aplied my glass material to and what is touching the component. im slowly getting there and i have learned lots of tips and tricks but i had no idea it would be so hard and kind of intuitive for a noob like me

comments and help would be greatly apreshiated

hura!

it seems to render glass fine if it is closed cube and all the faces are the right way around. ı know if it is a group it refracts the immage kind of funny. does it matter what i have painted on the SU model if i dont paint both sides with vray material?

@kwistenbiebel said:

mmmm....
For a color tinted glass you need to model double glazing for the refraction to work.
Also see to it that the 'affect shadows' is checked in the refraction layer.
What is the light source? Physical sky?

ok. i just deleted the glass and i still get the green glow. now im totaly lost. it must be some thing to do with my texture. its just a native sketchup texture that i rotaded 90 degrees

my light source is an planar omni behind the scene and a linear light outside as the sun. physıcal camera off and envıronment off...

its actually kınd of a cool effect. here is the scene: were lookıng into a room from a green tinted glass wall. the problematic texture is only on the doors of the storage units. there isnt any emisive materials present in my model. sorry its so dark. there is only one light source behind the camera.

here is the su scene

im rendering a scene with lots of glass. for some reason vray wont render some sketchup materials like wood grain through glass. what could be the reason for this?

for some reason the shadow hittıng the chairs leg wont render. i have had this porblem with some other models as well. it renders if it is above the ground but not if it is touching it.