Posts made by tpskinner

Hi guys,

Im on SU8 on Mac with 1.49.01

I've always had issues with region renders when saving to .exr and I've finally decided to see if anyone has any answers.

With the small preview window open from the exr render (which always looks funny cus its covered in checkered lines), I can't seem to draw the region render box where I want. I try clicking and dragging but it always seems to only want to cover a small corner of the window.

I dont have this problem when I'm not rendering to .exr

Any ideas?

Hi guys,

MAC, SU8, 1.49

Another problem im having... I am doing a scene where I am trying to use rectangular lights to give a little bit of ambient light to particular parts of my scene. I have check the invisible check box but when i render it is still visible.

Any suggestions? ive tried checking and unchecking, deleting and recreating, but no change.

Ah yes, i meant 1.49 not 1.48! my bad!

Thanks very much... is there a reason they changed it from Burn Value?.... in contrast, what would the dark multiplier do then?

Hi guys,

Im using SU8 on Mac with latest 1.48 Vray...

Hopefully an easy question to answer...
I am doing a scene where the camera is outdoors looking through patio doors to an indoor scene, so I have the issue of a combine indoor and outdoor scene. I am trying to make the Reinhard colour mapping control my issues. I have read about the controls, but everywhere I read it talks about using the Burn value to control whether its more linear or exponential, and VRay for skechtchup does not have a Burn control for Reinhard. How do I control this?

Thanks,
Tim

Hi guys,

SU8 on Mac, vray 1.49

I have been having some strange problems with rectangular lights today.

I have a scene with some IES lights and default sun... I have had no problems with them.

However, when I have put a couple rectangular lights in I have had some issues... it seems if I make the light into a component, when i click render it will say the standard vray is processing your scene but then nothing will happen... no preview screen... it just goes back to normal sketchup functions. I tried remaking the light in no group or component and the render starts.... i tried then making it into a component and same problem! I am pretty sure I have never had this problem before.

any help?

cheers!

Nope... just using my machine. Its not the file either, I have had the same result on different models.

Hi guys,

Im using VR 1.49 with SU8 on Mac.

I have been having troubles with rendering my z depth. I have looked at numerous tutorials on how to render the z-depth and I am reasonably confident I am doing it right. However, I am always getting an image that has lots of white blocks. Underneath it looks like it was rendering ok! here's the image of what I'm getting... can anyone help?

Hey guys...

found a decent fix for this...

If you duplicate the Sketchup Application in the applications folder (Mac)... it automatically calls the folder Sketchup 9... you can then open up two separate SU8 applications at once (similar to windows, prob why they dont have this issue). If you use one for your Vray file, you can use the other to copy and paste anything across without losing Vray material info.

Hope it helps for now... can't wait for all the bugs to be fixed properly!

Hey guys,

Mac, SU8, VRay 1.48.01

Does anyone else have any issues with materials when you have more than 1 file open in SU?... If I open up a file with some furniture to copy into my model for example, as soon as I open the second file the textures in my model are reduced to the basic sketchup diffuse maps... not bump, reflection etc. Don't know what to do!

Cheers,
Tim

Hi guys,

Im running SU 8 on Mac, with VRay 1.49.01.

I am having some very annoying problems with vray materials. I build a model and create or import vray materials with bump/reflection etc... these all work fine when they are initially created. However, when I save, close and open the model another time all my material settings (bump, reflection etc) are all gone, all i am left with is the diffuse map. I have read other posts and realise that this was a problem with previous versions of VRay, however it was supposed to have been fixed with this version. I have tried the technique of opening the options window before closing, but this does not work. I have tried testing with new model with a basic box and applying materials, saving and reopening and only on one occasion of about 10 attempts has the material successfully loaded.

various people have suggested in previous topics that its because the materials were created in older versions of Vray. However, I cannot believe that all materials suddenly become redundant with the new version. It also does not explain how I managed to load the material with one of my test models.

Can anyone shed any light on this subject? ... I'm getting very frustrated at work having to constantly reload all my materials every time I open a file!

Thanks,
Tim

Hey guys...

Still can't get this plugin to work... Im on Mac, SU8 and using 0.6.3 Ivy.

I can successfully open the parameters dialogue box and move sliders etc... However, this is all I can do. Clicking on my model does nothing, CMD clicking does nothing etc.

any ideas?

Thanks,
Tim

Hey guys...

Ive been trying to go through all the posts and I realise that theres been some issues with MAC but some seem to have got it to work...

Ive got SU8... I unpacked the 0.6.3 RAR file and put the files into my plugins folder. I can open the Ivy window with all the various options... but when I click on the model nothing happens. Ive tried various clicks and alt clicks cmd clicks... but nothing. There are no error messages, just nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Tim

We have recently reinstalled Vray so quite possible it was from the old version... thanks! At least it shouldn't be a problem with future projects. Thanks for your help!

Hey guys,

I am running the 1.49.01 version of VfSU with SU8 on Mac. I am having issues with the vray materials on one of my models. I have a variety of materials that I have bump/displacement settings for, however, whenever I re-open the model these settings and maps have gone and I am left with just the basic diffuse material. Interestingly, my brick material does open with the bump settings but none of my other materials do! its very frustrating having import all my materials every time.

I have tried a making a box on a new file and adding a few settings and these will save and load fine! very strange!

Anyone have any ideas??