Seems Twilight Render makes that naturally! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCyZlS6xfRs

Yes, I can see where such a script would definitely be a hit. Just got the older version of Housebuilder working (with no beeping?). Such a plugin would compliment it tremendously. Paul

@valerostudio said: That makes sense! Thanks Thom! As you found out, setting an aspect ratio in SketchUp and matching the VfSU view usually works. (Though I've had issues at some ratios...) But I find it generally best to set an aspect ratio in SU as the scene can then be rendered on any machine and still be matching. Without the different size of the monitor will mess things up. I also found that rendering Photo Matched scenes doesn't work well. But I recreated the scene as a normal scene with the Ruby API and then it would render. It will be in the update of VfSU Tools 2.0 which I am working on.

That is ..... AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This fixes the issue perfectly. Hopefully this is a bug that will get addressed by Trimble.

Fixing the greyout issue and many of the crashes is a pretty neat update. It is after all a Maintenance Release - one cannot expect major features from that. Btw, there is an announcement thread here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45516

Might be worthwhile to look through Brodie's posts. I seem to recall he was explaining some of his workflow for the maxwell competition a little while back.

That dialog has really changed the way I work. My favorite is that you can edit the segments of an arc or circle after its created.

That is correct. I hear a lot of folks use it for interiors, if they have the time to let it cook. It does produce some nice grainy results. Perfect for what I am looking to do.

I'm not the best representative of the entire company, I really only get to see a small window of what's going on. I get to see a list of bugs from customers, and a list of requirements from those above me. I just program and try to keep as best of a pulse on what's going on as I can. ASGvis, when it existed, was able to resell it's own product, which allowed us to play around with numbers some, but the underlying pricing scheme was always based upon the way Chaos Group did things. When 2.0 came out and RT came out, they charged for an upgrade. Now we are at the point where RT is working in our plugin core (with VfR at least). It's all still in the air though. I haven't heard any talk of definite pricing, licensing, etc. We are still at the point where we are trying to figure out what we need to tackle, when, how, and how long it will take. I wasn't told the final price of the VfR upgrade until the day of release, so I'm really not the best person to talk to about that kind of stuff. Tom - I understand the frustration, we will do our best to make our next release worthwhile, regardless of the pricing or feature set. We have made tons of fixes and optimizations already, it should be exciting to see what else we can improve. If it were up to me, I'm not sure if I'd opt to spend the time ripping features out of the current implementation of our product so that we could put out a bugfix patch, or if I'd spend that time to get the current features in VfS. Both options would probably take a similar amount of time, and each have their pros and cons, so it's a tough call.

I would turn up the IOR on the reflection and refraction layer for the wine glasses to 1.8. I would also add a little color to the glass by making the refraction color a very light gray. Then set the IOR for glass on the cabinet to something lower like 1.2.

Now if they could link them so that all you have to do is click MXM and then click that pencil, we would be golden! It's really the only complaint I have about the plug-in right now.

Cheers again

For me Rendering in general is a good idea, software specific is not really nessecary. At the moment the way this forum is set up allows you to access information fast without trawling through endless subsections for support information. Kudos to the team The only subforums that would assist this for me are a separate place for 'whatever versus whatever' threads and a place for polls and discussions of polls both of which are surplus to my own search requirements. Oh yes and wise words Mike.... Regards Sam

doesn't VRay for MAx use newer core? EDIT: also, yeah, if you could post a side-by-side comparison (with rendertimes), that would be awesome.

I have it and enjoy it... I only use it for a few things but it's much more powerful. I just haven't spent the time studying all the things it can do. I recommend it.