New User can not use the HDRI

[decmanai]

Hello
I am a new user of Vray Sketch Up for Mac, and I'm having doubts that I can not solve, I ask please help of you, already looked in the manual and you tube and I can not solution.

Are two doubts:

first is how to use HDRI in Vray for Mac, I'm trying to do the following:
Environment
GI color and click on M and pull the image, espherical, UVW Environment
BG color and do the same thing

But does not work? Where am I wrong?? ???


Second doubt is: When I apply a texture to the sketch up model (eg wood) and I want to put reflective material going in and apply a reflective layer (the difuse already exists) but the preview appears only the reflection and not the texture with reflex (also in yield)
I tried many ways and could not solve these two problems,

Excuse my inexperience in the program ... bought Vray you have to use it,
Please if you can pass me the step by step I am very grateful!
PS.: If possible on the Mac, do not know if Windows changes something??

[thomthom]

Re: New User can not use the HDRI

What do you mean by HDRI not working? What are the results you see? What are the results you expect?
Is it that the background looks black? If so, you might need to increase the Multipler - maybe to around 20-60.



As for reflection, what kind of reflection did you add? Did you use a TexFresnel map?



PC and Mac should have no differences.

[fantoosh420]

Re: New User can not use the HDRI

I don't understand about your problem related to HDRI properly... and as mentioned by Thomthom, you may only need to increase the multplier. from your explanation, rest seems to be alright..

Second doubt is: When I apply a texture to the sketch up model (eg wood) and I want to put reflective material going in and apply a reflective layer (the difuse already exists) but the preview appears only the reflection and not the texture with reflex (also in yield)
I tried many ways and could not solve these two problems.

This is because in newer version of vray for sketchup (1.48.66 onwards) there is no default reflection type selected. When you create a reflection layer, click on m button, then choose "Texfresnel" from the drop down menu. For wood, you may want to set about .6-.8 for reflection multplier. but first have to set the the reflection type to fresnel.