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Hi guys, i recently downloaded a demo of the Vray for sketchup software. I tried it out a while back and didn't really have time to play around with it.
Right now our workflow says i have time to play around with it!
So. I've been trying it out on a sketchup model i did of our office a while back. I plugged some of the herman miller furniture we have into the model (they are high poly counts), and gave it a go.
I tweaked the glass (Clear and sandblasted) to achieve better looks using the Vray materials. So far im very impressed! However im having a very strange issue.
I first tried rendering it using the default settings, but i set the second pass to light-cache. Frankly, i am in the dark here with most of these settings. But i thought id give it a go. It took forever and a heartbeat to render. I let it go for about 3 hours before i went home for the evening. Not honestly sure how long it took, but it took a long time. I also ended ip with a bizzare lighting effect on the walls. it's spotty.
I used the stickied threads ruby script to fix my materials this morning. and i started a new render. I figured it would go quicker and my lighting issue (since im using true defaults now) would go away. Well im about 6 hours into the render and don't want to give up on it, but its clearly doing the same thing.
Here is an image of the first rendering pass with the odd lighting condition on the walls: note i had turned off the furniture to speed it up. Don't think it helped though.
Here is an in-progress rendering, and based on how it looks, i can tell it will do the same thing again.
Here is a link to the last VISOPT i used if it aids you.
Here is a link to my sketchup file if it aids you (sorry, its a bit of a mess from the google warehouse herman miller blocks).
So my questions are:
1. What the heck am i doing wrong? It's very difficult for me to make a change, then wait hours on hours to see what im doing and if it helped or not.
2. What are some good settings to use that will speed up a render for 'testing' purposes?
3. More to follow im sure!
Thanks all for your time.
Dave.
Right now our workflow says i have time to play around with it!
So. I've been trying it out on a sketchup model i did of our office a while back. I plugged some of the herman miller furniture we have into the model (they are high poly counts), and gave it a go.
I tweaked the glass (Clear and sandblasted) to achieve better looks using the Vray materials. So far im very impressed! However im having a very strange issue.
I first tried rendering it using the default settings, but i set the second pass to light-cache. Frankly, i am in the dark here with most of these settings. But i thought id give it a go. It took forever and a heartbeat to render. I let it go for about 3 hours before i went home for the evening. Not honestly sure how long it took, but it took a long time. I also ended ip with a bizzare lighting effect on the walls. it's spotty.
I used the stickied threads ruby script to fix my materials this morning. and i started a new render. I figured it would go quicker and my lighting issue (since im using true defaults now) would go away. Well im about 6 hours into the render and don't want to give up on it, but its clearly doing the same thing.
Here is an image of the first rendering pass with the odd lighting condition on the walls: note i had turned off the furniture to speed it up. Don't think it helped though.
Here is an in-progress rendering, and based on how it looks, i can tell it will do the same thing again.
Here is a link to the last VISOPT i used if it aids you.
Here is a link to my sketchup file if it aids you (sorry, its a bit of a mess from the google warehouse herman miller blocks).
So my questions are:
1. What the heck am i doing wrong? It's very difficult for me to make a change, then wait hours on hours to see what im doing and if it helped or not.
2. What are some good settings to use that will speed up a render for 'testing' purposes?
3. More to follow im sure!
Thanks all for your time.
Dave.
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