Easiest way would be to do it in Photoshop (or similar program) after it has been rendered.

I believe the 4 light restriction is due to you using the Demo version of the software. If you upgrade to the full version that should go away.

Rob

And in my opinion, the elevation you want won't benefit from rendering that much. The benefits of a rendering vs a sketchup elevation has to do with material and light, right now your reflective material looks flat because there is nothing to reflect, just a grey background, try adding a billboard or something to reflect behind the camera. Secondly, the lights have very little material to lighten, the glass has a bit of reflection of the light but nothing more. Maybe add a floor plane to show the effect of the lights.

Rob

The other issue might have been the scale of the texture. It looks very small.

Try to sub-divide the face into smaller quads.

Try turning of displacement just to check. I know that if you have large faces with displacement (large wall for example) you have to subdivide it into small pieces otherwise weird things would happen.

In my opinion the displacement in the material is helping the scene. The view is too far away to benefit from it. All it is doing at this point is slowing down your rendering (and messing up your material). I would just leave the bump on for the materials unless you are planning some close-up shots to really show the material.

Rob

Because Sketchup is only 32bit and Vray runs within Sketchup. There is a way to render using DR Spawner to use 64bit but I've never personally tried it.

Rob

Just another quick question. As far as materials are concerned there seems to be new products on the market daily and it seems most of clients want to out-do each other by using the newest and shiniest. Are there provisions in PlusSpec to allow you to create new materials and add BIM information to it? Now I have to apologize, I have not watched all the videos as of yet so perhaps my question is already answered there, if so just let me know.

Thanks,
Rob

You can definitely try what njay suggested, but it would help the community to know what version of Vray you are using as there have been bugs in earlier editions that have since been fixed.

What version of Vray are you using?

Just to let you know, posting the same post in two forums is considered bad form. As I mentioned in the other thread we need to know at minimum what version of Vray you are using. Because that sounds like a bug that occurred in an earlier version.

Rob

We will need a little more information, for example what version of Vray and what version of Sketchup are you using?

Thats because Sketchup and Vray are two different programs. Sketchup has no idea what a Bump map is or a specular map. But with Vray you can pack each material independantly but unfortunately I don't think you can do the whole model at once. I could be wrong though.

Rob

What version of Vray are you using?

I think this is a really good start. I think to get more realism you need two things, better materials and more modelling.

For example, what is the blue material supposed to be? Will the owner of the house really want a Blue house like that, does the material have any kind of texture to it? reflection?

Secondly, it looks as if this is more of a massing model. When trying to create a realistic rendering you need to think in more realistic terms. How would the soffit inside your overhang attach to the walls, is there any trim around the fascia, walls etc. It almost needs to get to the point where you model it as if you were building it for real (almost).

And finally, if you look at 90% of the best realistic renderings out there I would say that 60% of it is modeling/rendering and 40% is post processing in Photoshop.

But yeah, very good start, just start looking around you at different building materials and see the texture, reflection, refraction, gloss, and connections to other materials. And then create you own Vray Materials to match it or model it in sketchup.

Hope this helps,
Rob

Well just like a regular camera your best bet would be to render several scenes and stitch them together in Photoshop or a similar program. The only other way I could think of would be to remove the opposite wall and render a large image and then just crop out the corridor portion.

I looks like something odd has been checked in your Frame Buffer that is changing the colors. I can't quite think of exactly which setting it would be. In any case, 1.48.49 is VERY dated and had numerous problems, you should definitely be looking at Vray 2.0

Rob

First off I would like to say that yelling because someone didn't answer your post less than 12hr after you posted is not a great way to get people to help you.

Secondly, a little more information is needed. Does it crash only when opening an existing model? Can you open a clean instance of SketchUP (no models) with Vray installed? What versions of Vray have you tried specifically?

Rob

I'm not sure I understand. If you are using DR it should definitely be quick on the final pass. I'm not sure if the initial passes use DR yet or not. But for the final pass, for instance if your main computer uses 8 cores and you have another computer setup for DR that has 8 cores then in theory the final render pass should be half the time (I say in theory because no 2 computers are ever exactly the same).

Rob

@valerostudio said:

This takes the award for craziest thing I have seen.

A little off topic but..ok.