Failed to add the proxy object to the active document

[fotenn_lind]

I have purchased a bunch of vegetation elements to use in my renderings and have been going through creating proxies of them. Everything had been going smoothly but I just received an error message of "Failed to add the proxy object to the active document". Any sort of troubleshooting for this or things I should be looking for?

[georgi.georgiev]

Hi,

Could you please advise what is the full version number of V-Ray (V-Ray > Help > About)?

Does this occur with specific model? Are the objects exported one by one or as a multiple selection?

[fotenn_lind]

Hi georgi.georgiev,

Thanks for the response. I have V-Ray 3.60.03.

Yes it only has occurred with one specific model and has been working with all the other model's I'm doing this with. When exporting, I am selecting multiple meshes. This is how I have been working through all the other models as well and it has been working fine.

[ANDREW_CHAN]

I'm having the same issue with a bunch of objects downloaded from 3D warehouse. It seems objects like rocks made up of single meshes work ok, but most of the plants + cactii that are made up of many meshes don't work.
I'm using Rhino 7 and V-Ray 4.20.02

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/mod...43463157c/Rock
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/mod...681dc25/Cactus
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/mod...99d9df2/Cactus

Is there any way to get these to work?

[georgi.georgiev]

Hi ANDREW_CHAN

Could you please provide a step-by-step description how the proxies are created?

In the meantime, kindly note that I was only able to reproduce the error with the Rock models, however, when the whole scene is exported as one .vrmesh and imported in to Rhino 7. The error did not occur in Rhino 6 with the same file.

[Jarek88]

Minimizing Faces in Preview when making a proxy from 10k to 5k did the trick for me, although I am having a problem bending the proxy and rendering it. It shows simply it not being curved. Any ideas why ?

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi Jarek88,

although I am having a problem bending the proxy and rendering it. It shows simply it not being curved. Any ideas why ?

Proxies can not be bended or deformed in any other way because the meshes are loaded at render time straight from the vrmesh file on disk.
You can only transform - scale, move and rotate them.

Konstantin