i guess read the manual. if you are telling us about new materials and everything. The way i see it is you have the very old one. how to apply material, create material etc. are there in the new manual.

@pixero said:

Has anyone been able to get the 0.6.3 version to work?
yes working with sketchup 8

thanks to 360cities they published the sponza VR:berserk:

@unknownuser said:

Shaggy has an amazing resemblance to you Pete. Great work.

hahaha great eyes.

sorry for the confusions guys. yeah it's all about the HDRI image done in SKetchup and Vray + Photoshop. I agree that we usually do it using several photos and stitch them together. But the crazy i just realized was to create it in sketchup world and use rendering engine to produce the enviroment. Did i thought it was possible? I know some people might have thought it.. but i dont have any idea that it was.

Why it was an accident? because it was not the intention to this. My orginal intention was to do a big spherical map 4000px X 80000 px for 360cities.net. They required at least that size. The only way to do this in vray is by rendering using VRImage outputting it in EXR file, thanks to the timely video of fernando rentas. The EXR output file (VRImage) is 32bit. When I saw the 32 bit I was enlightened.. yeah I can save this in HDR. I saved the spherical map in HDR. Immediately, I opened Keyshot and loaded HDR. The original intention was gone, inspiration came to try this new workflow. Lo to my surprise, if you use the HDR as background and IBL in keyshot, look at the amount of details you can see. Ussually in Keyshot, you need to have an extra backplate, while being lighted by HDRI. In this case I did not use any backplate because the detail generated by the HDR done in SketchUp in Vray was cool with that amount of pixels. This i beleive open further with the possibility of an excellent animation with frame rendering by less than a minute.

I knwo Stefanq can identify on me on this because, he played with HDRI in vray that much. so i am sharing you this accidental workflow which was not intended in the first place that way.

I have done VR for my SPonza using 4000px X 8000 px. http://www.360cities.net/image/sponza

I ended up doing this. render less than a minute using keyshot.

read more here on what happened:
http://nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/05/hdr-done-in-vraysketchup-photoshop.html

statue courtesy of michalis.

it needs push pull tool...

thank you guys.. I have added an interview every second week like this.. http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2011/05/featured-visualizer-jhan-philip-co.html

@robert111 said:

vray good rendering nomeradona
thnaks for your tutorial to export sketchup to max
but can you make another tutorial for vray max lighting et rendering plz
show your setting for vray max light and setting for your vray max renderer
thanks robert , i wait your reponse

this is not really my niche my friend. but honestly my approach with max is the same as vraysketchup. just differnt terminology sometimes.

I need your feedback with my latest blogsite. This one focus more and resources and introducing people who use sketchup as part of the workflow. Aside, i am listing all the resources i know, texture, hdri, ies files etc together with my tutorials.

http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/

i use 359.9

first of all thanks for this pluggin. its wonderful. I have the following request.

1. two skp files were done in su8, its better if they are done in SU6, they can be opened in su7 and su8. if they were done in SU 8 then it has error in SU7 and SU6.

2. Please make the leaf textures as png file with background as transparent. its easier to render. instead of tiff or jpg

3. HOw is the possibility where user can load its own skp files. rather than depending on the three skp file leaves.

again my honest to goodness thanks to you pierre.

@rabba89 said:

I try to install the last two version but i still have the same problem.
This message appears when i open sketchup: Error Loading File LiveIvy.rb Can't insert empty component.
Than i'm able to use correctly the plug-in untill the last step.
If i hold click+shift nothing happens. It the same when i only click (generate ivy)

Can you help me?
thanks a lot. Very good work, great idea

rabba the components inside the texture pluggin two of them were done in sketchup 8. download the su8 free and resaved the file to su7 or su 6 depends on what version you are using,

adam why dont you push your light up more.. add another innovation MaterialUP, bumps, reflection etc.

thanks srx. good point. iam actually using su7

i dont knoe why i have this

Error Loading File LiveIvy.rb
Can't insert empty component.

Here is the next part of the tutorial. http://nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/05/virtual-reality-tutorial-part-2.html

Here is the final render spherical output

Here is my first ever virtual reality. I used vray sketchup.

http://nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/05/trial-panoraman.html

excellent render. i think grass needs a bit of displacement.