Vertical sunlight/ shadows

[kaspersvanberg]

I have just downloaded and installed vray4sketchup 6 RC 1.
Now i can only render with an exact vertical sun and shadow. Changing the sketchup sunlight position/ settings, does not have any effect on my renderings.

All my vray settings are basic plugin settings.

Have anyone experienced this?

[gaetanosu]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

I have the same problem

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

I’m not experiencing this. With the ‘default lights’ boxed checked in vray, I find the sun follows the sketchup sun position ok. (At one stage I did have a point light installed and forgot that it was there so of course, as it doesn’t move, the shadows don’t move either. - I deleted it)

[joe_b]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

I’ll see what I can uncover about this

[kaspersvanberg]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

@gaetanosu

I have the same problem

Hi
I solved the problem.
By default the environment GI(skylight) and Background (Both set on sky) have the “override sun´s parameters checked”. Uncheck both and the sun+shadows act normal.

The strange thing is when i load the visopt presets and set GI(skylight) and Background to “sky”, sketchup crashes when rendering. I think someone else had similar problem.

[gaetanosu]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

Thanks, I was driving crazy.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

I’m glad you sorted that out! Thanks for posting it. Looking for that sort of thing among all the options would drive you nuts, so its a useful thing to know about. Thanks

[joe_b]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

Yep - this problem won’t trouble you in the next release. But I’m glad you found a quick workaround for it.

[archigrafix]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

Same problem Su crashing kaspersvanberg..!
Tried it many times, but no way…

[duongvvui]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

i have the save problem with shadow

[joe_b]

Re: Vertical sunlight/ shadows

Try saving out your current scene’s settings as a visopt and then loading them back in. This seems to correct something with the Sun/Sky settings. I thought I had corrected the issue - but we’ve noticed it as well. Sorry guys.