@fredo6 said:

@ars2rust said:

WHEN I USE ANIMATOR WITH VRAY, I CANNOT GET IT TO USE MY EXTERNAL GPU. SINGLE FRAMES HIT THE eGPU BUT NOT THE ANIMATION FRAMES FROM ANIMATOR.

THOUGHTS?

For the time being, Animator uses the direct API to VRay, which is not triggering GPU calculations.

Are there any plans for getting this to work with GPU rendering? I love the plugin and I would happily pay to have a version that would utilize the GPU.

I'm currently in the middle of a render with V-Ray that is going to take 17 hours for a 14 second clip with 211 frames at 785x800 resolution. Is there any way to cut down the time without killing any more of the quality? This is just for a test, I would like to render a much higher resolution.

My specs:
HP OMEN 30L
Ryzen 9 5900x
RTX 3090

Thanks to both of you. for what ever reason, importing the image without trimming worked this time when before I had the black shadow behind. I guess I did something wrong last time.

Thanks

I imported the PNG in as and image. It's originally a vector I saved as a PNG.
I traced out a rough line around the non-transparent areas to help speed up the Trimmer plugin but it didn't help. that's the screenshot I attached. When I traced it out and removed the empty space it made it no longer an image I think?
I don't know how to save as a PNG from illustrator and not lose 100% solid colors. In my vector, all colors are solid.

I want to place this on a 3d mock-up of a outdoor sign but it makes a black box around the PNG no matter what method I try.

the white areas are all transparent. it is rectangle cropped as tight as possible.

So, I tried to cut the transparent space down and now I get a error message:

I'm trying this plugin out on a pretty complex png. It appears to be running, going on about 3 hours now. Should I give up or do you think it's still going?

Sketchup 2019.2
late 2015 iMac (macOS Mojave 10.14.6)
4GHz 4-core i7 processor
32 GB 1867 DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon R9 M390 2 GB