Light - as suggested
Reflection to your material
Render higher resolution image, with AO and higher quality settings.

Yeah, there is no way thats a 8000 pixel image. Your demo limit is only rendering at 600.

You have USE COLOR AS TRANSPARENCY ticked on. Turn that off. I would also load a glass vismat from the Chaos site, something with reflection and refraction.

1.6 was a beta and that is over now. We are now on 2.0 and this was a bug that was fixed.

I dont think its all that big of a deal either. Its made licensing much less of a pain in the butt too.

If you have 2.0 I would use proxies and stay clear of displ grass.

What version of V-Ray? Only the latest 2.0 will render a pure elevation. One trick is to setup a perspective with a field of view set to 1 and that should do the trick.

What's a better tool, the pencil or the pen?

Pencil - comes with built in eraser, can create soft shading, needs to be sharpened often...

Pen - smooth dark lines, no need to sharpen, somewhat permanent...

My point is you can make great images using a turd and a paper bag if you have the most important thing... TALENT.

Here, try this link provided.

http://bit.ly/1i18wp6

I have 2.00_24622 because I have nightly access and I just got the error. And I will add this, when I deleted the component and added a brand new omni light, it gave me the same error. I should note that this light is nested withing another component, within a group, so it is buried in there a bit.

This is a bug when lights are made into or placed into components. Bug report this please.

Might have to sync materials.

Seems that Andy is correct, you can just right click it and make it a component. Glad to see this is working now.

Im not sure if we have this ability yet, although Batch render does render a series of scene tabs, but I am not sure SketchUp is the tool to do this type of animation.

If I open a new clean copy of SketchUp, everything loads fine. If I open a file directly from Windows Explorer, I get this error, which in turn prevents all Fredo plugins from opening.

You need to do this with all lights that you make into components and I find if you group it, then make it into a component, the light becomes broken.

If you have the latest 2.0 release it should work, but there has been bugs with this. Typically, I draw a small line from the edge of the light and then component those 2 things. Most of the time this works.

Pixero, can you show us a screenshot of your Pano2VR Settings?

I am also working on a project using Pano2VR and I am curious as to what resolution you render your final at and what settings you use in Pano2VR so that it loads so quickly but at such a sharp quality. Can you share a screenshot?

Slightly off topic, Pixero, which engine did you use to render those scenes? They are really nicely done!