For anyone wondering. Mind.Sight.studios servers are located in texas, USA. due to the current storms going through the area their servers were impacted. They have since resolved the issue and the servers are active once again.

Following up on this. Apparently in my system turning off antialising of textures made the issue go away. I am laying blame on the graphics card.

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@penumbra said:

excellent, many thanks.

You're welcome!

@unknownuser said:

Why have the refraction layer at all?

For many render engines - "architectural glass" or "thin glass" gives you the same look when at the scale of a building, there is effectively no refraction. It's such a small volume of glass that it doesn't matter if you have refraction calculated or not.

Well, those were just suggestions. I sometimes get quirky behavior with selection box left or right. Seems coincidental but I hear my processor fan kicking up at about that time. It could be Sketchup autosave, my security software updating behind the curtains, or something like that.
Yeah, I know this is kind of random off topic.

mine does as well... although it does save, so there's that.

Thanks Oli! Superb!

Hopefully the SU masters share their work with beginners as previously and not only in the shop for money...

@ valero
took your suggestion and replaced the object in the scene. Since you authored the scene is ok with you? I had to lower the emitters on the sides slightly to suit my need.

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@cveti said:

Hi all,

I see that the topic is old, but I think that I can help somebody else, who just starts with VRay for SU.
I'm a brand new newbie and I'm still busy with the manual of Vray for SU.
I also just stuck with the translucent materials - I made tousands changes in order to get the proper look of the material, but the result was - just solid opaque material.
Than I started to search the web and I found this helpful tut:

Link Preview Image Page not found - Richard Rosenman Advertising & Design

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Richard Rosenman Advertising & Design (www.richardrosenman.com)

The MOST important here is that we don't needed to check the translucent checkbox! Strange, but it perfectly works! Then the result is great and what is needed!!! ☀

thanks a lot ... 😍

that's right, that's the original source. Trying some more.

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Thanks for the feedback. Attached is mty refined version. i think i am finally getting somewhere with this one.

CW.skp

Hi I have an thought.
by expanding yout process to include all these steps may help

Make 10 to 12 double group models Use section tool to work into each outside group with group edit, copy paste one, section .to ea group model. Compometize inside group for later editing. Use 5 different skp files to work ea scene way you want them. Open another sketckup (6ea maybe ok) you cut and paste too and from.(child and parent) Use layer tool in parent Use scene tool in parent Right click for context menu or double click all sections, to get action cuts. (your work out right) Now play your scene.

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The best way: is to double click on ea sections for action cuts. done.