@unknownuser said:

Good to know. Well done.

Is it only the Demo versions that is available?

Cant find the full versions on the website.

I would assume that if you have a dongle it will be recognized as a licensed version when you update.

I'm not sure I understand the question. When you click render, a black window will appear and depending on your scene, it may take up to a minute before you see your light cache come through. I would guess that you are using displacement in your model and this is what is taking so long for VR to calculate.

Does you rendering eventually begin to appear?

It's a huge update folks and tested quite vigorously I might add.

Rect light with color applied to it behind a glass plane with the refraction glossiness set to something like .7? Use a good amount of subdivs on it. Play with fog color to achieve the 'milkiness'.

Just tested a DR render with a dome light and another with an HDRI in the GI slot too and now issues here. Make sure to update all of your spawners when you install a new version / release.

So a whole bunch of plugins do not work with 2014 and this is pissing me off.

Maxwell, Vali Architects Instant scripts, Compo Sprayer???

Was there really no way of making the old ruby scripts work regardless of the Ruby 2.0 changes? Cmon man! WTF 2014!!!!!

I'm in the same boat here... WTF 2014

And it's totally worth it. This service release fixes many little annoying bugs and adds some awesome features. Batch Render and Auto Material ID are my new best friends! Hooray to Devin and the Chaos crew!

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did see this issue once with VR for MAX not transferring the HDRI to the environment on DR. I will test this in VR4SU and report back.

That's an old crappy bug alright.

I would honestly just use the internet.

Evermotion has 2 great series on VR4SU and the info on Youtube that is $0 is a very good place to start.

You can use any V-Ray training to learn the engine. Most principles from VR for Max do carry over to VR4SU.

If you want to chat, send me a private message.

2 things to try

1. Increase you Dynamic Memory limit

2. Try rendering using 64 bit using the local Spawner technique.

(Are you using displacement? Proxies?) A 25MB file should not be crashing. I have rendered 100MB files in 2.0 on 2013 with similiar machine specs no problem.

Put a bullet in 1.49 man. It was great for it's time but it's a bit of a turd in comparison to 2.0.

Yep. I agree with the above. Render at higher res and turn of AA. The filters create these edges. Just use unsharp mask in Photoshop in post after to clean up.

If it is a 360 HDRI, you don't need to change anything. Check that you have the mapping set to Environment. If it's blurry its because it is a low res file. There are some hi res ones on here for free, give it a try. Consider buying some commercial ones if you really want hi quality domes.

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Try this. unload all of your plugins that you have installed from Sketchucation for FREE. Try to work on a project now. Trimble seems to be laughing all the way to the bank if you ask me. SketchUp is great because the 1000 plugins I have that do what I need. If I only had push/pull and follow me, I would be in trouble.

At least I can make an arc 3 ways now!

Conspiracy theory - Trimble buys SU from Google for who knows what, $30mil? Trimble holds on to SU investing very little into development, waits... Trimble sells SU to AUTODESK for $75mil in 2016. Quite the return on investment if you ask me.

I may get lynched for saying this, but I think Layout should be it's own separate program (add-on). If Layout is Trimble's focus, and I think it's obvious that this is where the efforts are being mostly put into, then let the people who use it, upgrade that part of the SketchUp suite. 2013 was a disappointment, but I told myself that 2014 will have to be amazing. They wouldn't put out another stale release, right?

We were all terrified when Trimble acquired SketchUp, and I think it's all being confirmed now. They are looking to create a BIM-like program. Those of us who use it to model or render should probably begin to look elsewhere.

Seriously, Sandbox isnt working at all???