do i have a like button here thom thom?

excellent job pete. i love mario.

wow beatiful model and render.

Wow Adam that is a cool tutorial.

@liam887 said:

Finally managed to get a decent place to show my work, most of it is sketchup and has been posted around here before but now its all in one place!
http://liam887.carbonmade.com/

very nice looking blog Liam.

@dkendig said:

Since we're all the same company now, it doesn't really make sense to have separate websites for our two plugins, and the rest of the company. Once we get the username stuff straightened out, everything should be fine. All of the posts have been ported over I believe, so all that's missing is user permission and naming convention issues. We understand that it's a rather big change, but by joining forces with Chaos Group as much as possible, and sharing resources, I am sure we will have a better end user experience once we are finished the merger.
i hope, all the tutorials, materials downloads, galleries, featured users, blogs and other things will still be there.

@hayduke said:

Has anyone found the .vismat material collection and tutorials/models...?
i think it will be there too.

and hand and foot

@dkendig said:

We are working on integrating the forums with the Chaos Group site. It is their wish to have everything unified, which totally makes sense. There shouldn't be an asgvis site anymore, if there is no company called asgvis, right? As with any merging of data, there have been some hiccups, but we're hopeful that everything will be resolved soon.

glad to hear from you devin.. i just wish they just rename the former asgvis into whatever name they wanted.

well, well well... it seems to me that all the postings are being migrated to http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums. There is now a new section for Vray Sketchup and Vray Rhino which is previously only VrayMax and Vray Maya. I tried to post something, but i have the same message as stefanq. I have written to maria paldalski, the one who took kimberly's job, i beleive she can help on this issus. so fingers cross hopefully the migration will be easy and we will not loose all the old postings.

light leaks? maybe you have lower irradiance map.. min/max

@pepa said:

I see there's another problem. The more the number closer to 360° the more the picture is brighter. Does anyone know why?

yap i can see that.. i dont know the answer.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=37519from my posting HERE, I have done a polar version. I hope you like it.

the image is too big to embed. i just link it,
http://nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/05/sponza-polar.html

excellent i love to try this software now.

@unknownuser said:

These images can't be created in SU with just project an image an some internal hemispheres then flat them?

i did not really get what you mean pilou..

@sepo said:

I know this link....thanks Nomer.Wouldn't you need several exposures to convert to true .hdr... save as in photoshop is not really the same.

that would be the ideal hdr, but if you are rushing to have one as an IBL, you can just convert it into 32bit image, maybe adjust the radiance... again this is a fast technique. it might not be a true HDRI, nevertheless it work. But also if you are using it as a background image, it work nicely too.

@arail1 said:

@thomthom said:

@arail1 said:

(odd that someone else has that site name), not Asgvis.

You mean ChaosGroup - which are the ones that actually develop V-Ray. ASGVis just made the plugin to bridge SketchUp and Rhino with V-Ray.

No. Chaos Group doesn't own the site name vray.com, that was the point I was making. It's owned by Visual Dynamics with a banner stating: "V-Ray is a trademark of Chaos Software LTD. This web site is not sponsored by, endorsed by or affiliated with Chaos Software LTD." I'm just surprised that Chaos Software didn't license the site name right at the beginning - rather a large oversight on someone's part.
yeap i can see the potential difference of interest here. nevertheless, i think these guys are professional enough to honor the things like this. again merger and acquisition have both two sides of the coins.

@sepo said:

Nice one Nomer... It would be nice to be able to download these spherical images. Some of those are quite nice and would be useful for rendering.

indeed sid. once they are there you cant download them. but i found these tons of collection as good as..

Equirectangular Panoramas

Explore this photo album by Alexandre Duret-Lutz on Flickr!

Flickr (www.flickr.com)

sizes are 7500px x 3750px these are really excellent size. if you want you can always turn them into HDRimages.

again very nice. really the super guru of sketchup modelling.

what will happen to the old Asgvis.com site? rerouted to chaosgroup. log on with the old one and change the password. forum is purely vray, maya and vray max. i know downloading and everything will be now at chaosgroup site, but what about the old forum?