It’s a vaulted ceiling church renovated into a shop.

I think the clothing and small details I added to the shop mainly from Google warehouse have upped the component amount.

Also I created all the different areas in small pieces, made each bit as an individual component then joined the pieces to make more components. Bit component happy lol I never knew I would later have to delete them. Is this what you mean by “nesting”?

That’s a really good idea to delete the stuff on the side that Zorro will be cutting, as the shop is symmetrical so that should half the amount of components

Hi Dave,

I deleted the main components and ones I thought zorro sliced through and gave that a go but still got a bug splat

But tested the plugin in a quick little model i made containing no componenets and it worked perfectly!!

So it seems I just have to continue with this evil mission of exploding the components.

I seemed to have gone on a component mission when I built this model as the model info says i have 6316 component instances and 225 component definitions which seems like an awful lot.

Hi guys,

Glad to have found this post, it has reassured me!

Ive been trying to explode all the components in my model and waited an hour and a half still to only see "sketch up not responding" so glad to know it is working and is just going to take a long time!!

I seem to have 6652 component instances and 366 component definitions

Hi guys,

So no luck, it crashed the program.

But I read back over older posts and it says to:
purge unused materials
fix problems
which I have done

I also read that this plugin doesnt work on components or groups of which I seem to have hundreds in my model

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to explode all the components in one go as my model is running slow anyway and doing it component by component is taking forever.

Many Thanks

Hi Dave,

Fantastic that has worked!! Thank you very much!!!

I am now going to try it out

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your quick reply.

I am using windows 7 and google sketch up 8 pro.

I shall give what you have said a go now

Hi guys,

This plugin looks amazing and just what I need!

Many Thanks for sharing!

This is the first plugin ive installed, would someone please be able to help?

Ive downloaded the file and stored it in the google sketch up plugins file, now what do i do?
It does not appear in my sketch up under tools.
I tried clicking on the folder but I cant open it, my comp doesnt know which software to use to open it?

Sorry if this is a really basic question.

Any help would be amazing!

Thanks in advance

Hi Al,

Thank you for replying to my post.

First rookie error....I forgot to switch on the sun lol!

I really like the caustics effect you have given an example of as my reflections of light are very stiff. But I cant seem to find that option in my vray materials editor. Do you know if this is avaliable in vray?

I love the smoke/haze effect aswell, how did you create that?

After reading posts on here and info from a few other sites I created my stain glass windows the following way. Its prob not the best way but it works and thought it would be useful to share for other beginners

1. Adding the "stain glass" image to the window as a material.
2. In vray material editor adding a "refraction" layer
3. In the refraction layer changing the brdf diffuse transparency to white
4. In brdf refraction adding a map of my "stain glass" image

If someone can let me know how to upload images onto here I will post the results

Hi Guys!

Ive just joined up!
A google search brought up a thread from this site on a sketch up problem that I had, and I saw how many talented users are on here!!!

Im a sketch up beginner and this is in fact my first forum so ive lots to learn, its just great to see how much is possible!

Hi guys!
These renders all look amazing im really impressed!

Im currently trying to render some stained glass windows in a church model.
I have read all these posts put they are a bit over my head and was hoping someone could give me more instructions.

Im using google sketch up 8 with vray and want to create the best effect I can get using an imported stained glass image.
I believe this is what 'Andybot' did and it looks great.

Many Thanks
Nina