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Hi Ana, I tried turning off all ArchVision items in the scene to be rendered. This is a rendered scene that worked out beautifully before the recent Vray update I installed.
Now I cant get passed this stage of a rendered scene, see attached screen snapshot. It seems to crash at 'Building BVH tree' stage, whatever that is. I'm thinking that there are some settings in the Vray settings area that need to be adjusted properly perhaps. Not sure why Vray doesn't offer a simple setup for users.
Seems like so much energy and time is lost experimenting. Also seems odd that Vray does not have any instruction information for the new update interface, sort of leaves us hanging. Thanks for your help. As a follow up, I have tried setting materials to all Global Materials because I have a hunch that my problem may be material mapping issues after installing the new Vray update. If this is the case, I'm in for a long session of material editing.
Something about the update doesn't seem right to me. It shouldn't cause this much effort to get up and running. I now get 'not enough memory' message (as I type this reply I was rendering nicely in Global material mode, but it then crashed.), I have a new Boxx pc, so I have to make some memory adjustments I suppose. This also shouldn't be such an effort.
Anyway, let me know your thoughts. Thanks again, DpH. Hi DpH, Thank you for the detailed feedback! Yesterday we released a hotfix which can be downloaded from our website.
Note that you will need to login with your credentials first. Can you please install the hotfix (3.60.02) and let us know if the problem still persists? Would be great if you share some info about your exact computer configuration (CPU, GPU, RAM amount etc.). Were you running an interactive rendering or a production one before the crash occurs? Did you performed it on CPU or on GPU? Did you use any custom made materials that you created on your own with the previous 3.5 version?
Regarding the settings, I encourage you to subscribe for the V-Ray for Revit webinar next week. (The link is available on the top banner of our official page ) It is free and we will look in detail at the new features.
Regards, Ana. Ana, I've updated to 3.60.03, after trying 3.60.02 and still have the same problem. ArchVision is aware of the problem and tells me that Chaos is working on fixing the issue. I installed Revit 2019 and the problem doesn't happen with ArchVision, because Vray isn't plugged into Revit 2019. Hopefully the next Vray for Revit 2019 version has this issue fixed. My PC is a Boxx S3 workstation.
32gb Ram, Windows 10 Pro, Intel 3.7ghz i7 processor, powerful Nvidia GPU. It's a very new computer from Boxx. The key now is to hope this is fixed for the next version of Vray for Revit. Thanks, Dave. As a quick follow up, let me explain what I'm attempting to do. Perhaps I wont have to worry about the Styles setting in ArchVision if Vray can do what I'd like to do.
I'm trying to make my ArchVision RPCs a bit transparent, maybe 30% or so. I was going to create this as a Style in ArchVision. However perhaps I can make all of my ArchVision elements semitransparent with Vray material or other settings? I don't want to do this item by item, but by category because I may have hundreds of rpc's in a view (ie; landscape, cars, people, etc.). If you have any suggestions here, I'd love to not worry about the Styles tab in Archivision.
If no suggestions to achieve my goal, then I hope Vray can correct this issue in the next version of Vray for Revit, as ArchVision mentions that this is a Vray issue. Thanks again. Update: I've updated to Revit 2019, downloaded the Archvision for Revit 2019 plugin, and also the latest Vray for Revit update today. So far the Archvision Styles button does not crash while Revit and Vray License are both active. I'll explore and see if I can create a Archvision Style that has some transparency in the RPCs, and then see if those RPCs also render with the transparency with Vray for Revit. I did not get the RPCs to have transparency as you suggested prior Ana. The only way to even assign a transparency with Vray was to use a color instead of using the true RPC image, and when I tried a color with transparent assigned, the rendered image still had not transparency.
I'm going to be optimistic and see if I can get it to work now that all three softwares are updated and appear to work at the same time.
Dear Forum So I decided to install design suite 2018, having coughed up £25 for the Autodesk USB Flashdrive. The reason I upgraded was that I was having problems with Revit 2017, and the 360 rendering. I still believe this was a glitch with 2017. Anyways 2018 works a treat with regards to rendering, or so I thought. Chaos have yet to release the VRay plugin for 2018.
Likewise the STL 2018 plugin is not yet available. This is causing me major grief.
Any thoughts on a work around. I have already updated (stupid I know) my Revit files to 2018. Hi Dan Thank you for the response. Sadly the model has progressed significantly, which would mean redoing a lot of work in a previous version of Revit. Personally I think it is criminal that Autodesk can charge the fees they do, then miss out these fundamental issues. They should make it abundantly clear that upgrading the software will compromise certain elements. Ironically the only reason I upgraded was that I experienced problems with DS 2017.
My work around. Reinstall design suite 2017, which works with vray plugin for max 2017. Then export from Revit 2018 fbx which works with max 2017. I have had to redraw these elements in 2017, so that I may have these 3d printed. Given that Revit / BIM is all about coordination and the aspiration of eliminating waste. Autodesk clearly don't care if they waste my time and energy!
If only there was compensation or an alternative out there. Dan, Of course Autodesk doesn't care if they waste your time. They are the industry standard so they behave as a monopoly. Decades ago I drove past their huge building in Sausalito and could help but ask myself: ' What do all those people in there do considering that the AutoCAD has already existed for a decade or so?' My answer, it is probably a big corporate bureaucracy or like the government ( where I worked for a short while) the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Politics determines priority and like the taxpayer the customer is the lowest concern on the totem. I always say to other architects that when they told me there were better programs than Revit out there I believe them.
It's that darn industry standard thing. Luckily I knew not to trust Autodesk when I upgraded to 2018 and am still doing work in 2017 until STL comes out for 2018.
I figure after being screwed by Autodesk for so many decades it is my own fault if I don't take precautions on my own. Dean, There are plenty of alternative programs out there that I have been told are better. I was told even Sketch-Up outputs STL. I put up with Autodesk because of that industry standard thing being a small practitioner reliant on whatever employees or contractors the market will bear. If I were a bigger firm I would try some of those new programs with a few staffers that I expected to be long term where I could learn along with them. I think the reality is that once your firm gets bigger as a principal you are consumed with getting work to make payroll and not learning new programs.