Hello everyone,

I have lights oriented perpendicular to a mirror shelve in a niche. The adjacent wall is almost not enlightened - like if the light was going straight through the mirror without any bounces around.

In 2.0, when I was checking the 'Reflective' box into the 'Indirect Illumination' tab (GI Caustics), the effect was perfect. Easy way to set up.

From 2.0 to 3.6 the 'indirect illumination' menu seems to have been split into different other menus and I can't find a way to get a similar effect to the the GI caustics-Reflective option.
Could anyone advise how I could get the equivalent to this option by any chance?
V

Hi kimi kimi,

Thank you for your reply. Sorry for the confusion.
There are 2 ways to stop rendering: The teapot (Vray asset editor), or the stop sign (Top right corner of the Vray Frame Buffer).
Weither I click on the first one, or the second one, doesn't make a difference, it only stop rendering if I'm still at Building light cache.

As soon as I want to stop during the final path, the buckets stops, but the progression bar at the bottom of the Frame Buffer keeps going like the rendering is still going on and there is no way to launch another rendering before it finishes the previous one.

For a small resolution, I need to wait a couple of minutes, nevermind. But if I want to stop a high resolution rendering, I need to wait for hours before being able to launch another rendering (or I can force the app to quit and restart... which is not very professional).

Is this a better explanation?
Thank you for your help.
V

Hi guys,
I just would like to know if anyone had this problem before.
I'm using Vray 3.60 and Skp17 (Windows 8 x64).

Whenever I'm launching a rendering and I want to stop on the way, there is no way for me to stop vray working, until the time he would usually have used to go until the end of the full rendering is over.

I explain: The frame buffer 'stop' icon is grey (meaning it understands I said to stop), BUT the red sqare next to the teapot icon doesn't disapear, and the progression bar at the bottom of the FB keeps progressing saying 'rendering image'...
Then, no way to render anything else before waiting till the regular time is over, or forcing SKP to quit.

Could anyone help with this please?
Thank you very much.
Vv

Hi all,

Could any one try to help me find out what's wrong with my VRAY here?
I working with Sketchup 15 (64 bits), Vray 2.0.

The is my problem: some random times, it appears that the light reflections create an unexpected white noise on SOME materials, not all of them. See attached.

I checked a lot of other topics, tried to subdivide all materials, tried all kind of DMC options... When the output resolution is huge, the white dots are smaller but still here.

As you can see, the materials are not pixelated that much, just these weird white reflections... I can't explain how this is possible. It makes me really sad!

I would appreciate if someone could just tell me what parameter to dig into.

Thank you all very much.
Best,
V.

Hi rjh0016,
I guess you want to check the second icon, bottom left of your render frame called "force color clamping".
(When this icon is unchecked like in your screenshot, this indicates with colors the amount of work for the processor to render the image. The more you go to the red, and then the black, the more difficult the image to calculate. This view is just an indicator for you to know where you could potentially try to simplify the scene to make the rendering time shorter).
Hope this helps.
Have a good day.

Hi all,
Exactly the same for me.
SKP 15 and Vray 2.0, Windows 7 64 bits.
In addition, I'm rendering with 2 computers and a portable render farm, and every frozen buckets seems to come from the same computer (Render farm here).
I have a list of 30 images to render, same materials everywhere more or less... And after 20 images which went well, the rest is screwed up.
Does any of you guys can help on this?
No more since 1 year?
Thank you very much for your help.

@fredo6 said:

Just remove

• LibTraductor.rb (i guess this is the one causing the issue, as it must be old)
• RDE_dir
• SUCLOCK_Dir_11
• ROUNDCORNER_dir_23

Fredo

Great! I work properly now!
Thank you very much for your time.

A+

@fredo6 said:

Il semblerait qu'il reste des vieux fichiers (pas au format UTF8) dans la directory Plugins. Peux tu faire le menage ou montrer la liste des fichiers / directories dans le repertoire Plugins de Sketchup

Fredo

Ok voici la liste, je traine des pluggins depuis 6 ans donc c'est possible...mais je ne comprends pas lesquels!

Hello Fredo,

Je viens d'installer SKP14 ainsi que tous mes plugins via le menu Extensions de SKP (le SCF me dit qu'il ne sait pas unziper..)
J'ai toujours un message d'erreur au lancement de SKP:
"Erreur de chargement du fichier Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb
Error: #<ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8>
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:702:in match' C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:702:in block (2 levels) in load_from_config'
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:701:in each' C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:701:in block in load_from_config'
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:700:in foreach' C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:700:in load_from_config'
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:1070:in block in load_all_plugins' C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:1070:in each'
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:1070:in load_all_plugins' C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6/Lib6Core.rb:772:in load_from_config'
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb:188:in startup' C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb:335:in module:LibFredo6'
C:/Users/vivien.serveau/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb:34:in `<top (required)>'"

Qu'est-ce que j'ai fait de mal??

Merci pour ton aide! Et bravo pour ton travail!

Ok! I finaly found the solution. I saw on a forum that the problem comes from the fact I have 2 screens (1 DVI, 1 VGA).
Just unplugged the second screen, launch SU... replugged and now it's working properly.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hi guys!

4 years later I'm meeting the same problem with SU8 on Windows 7.
Since about a month, SU window always starts minimized. I have to click right "maximize" and reorganize all the toolbars which are superposed instead of being adjacent to each other.
My problem now is that I don't have any solution to reinstall it at the moment (office computer manage by wierd external admins, to make it easy).
Any advice please?

Thanks if you can save me!

Hi everyone,

I have a big problem after sketchup installation on a HP computer with vista. Tools draws lower than they appears and some windows like "scenes" make the soft crashing. Can somebody help me please! Thank you so much.

ps: there is a black bandage between menu bar and principal screen...strange

I have the same problem, i cannot place lights, and sometimes I don't have access to the dialog box
about pov-ray materials? what's wrong?

ok, it works. Thank you very much!

Ok, thank you, it works, the probleme was that i made group inspite of components...stupid error. In addition, do you know a script which makes it possible to reorientate the juxtaposed faces the same way (some normals are inverted), so that I can extrude the steps with joint push pull from fredo?

Hi everybody,

I'm searching for a script that gives choosen thickness to a group of surfaces. Does it exist? I attach an image of the object to which I wish to give a thickness (steps). In addition, is it possible to transform the lines into cylinders?

Thank you for your help.

vivo