Ben you should change your profile picture, you look like a smug a@@hole in it, which i'm sure you're not!

i solved my problem by making the material unique, thus turning into a texture which SK assigned UVs to.

this is what happened when i applied an external .jpg to the displacement channel. SU uv set i think the problem may be that i only applied a color to the surface (skindigo UVmapping option not availiable in RC menu) then applied the displace to roughen it up? so it seems a UV set was not assigned t...

Whaat, please check out this post http://asgvis.com/smf/index.php?action=search2 it seems to be happening again with the latest version of skindigo and vray? i know its pointless to notify AGVIS but i will anyway, i'm hoping you can fix on your end. BTW besides the annoyance of the message popping u...

thanks crojack

its for skindigo users not (skerkythea)? users

http://drivingdimensions.com/

check it out!

this should really be sticky. its invaluable.

WOW! :shock: maybe i'll take another look at blender when 2.5 comes out, although these changes seems to be a purposal rather than a plan. No? quote from blender.org "Currently, focus is on first bringing back a working Blender. Don't expect immediately a completely new interface design, especially ...

i assigned the mirror preset to chrome then it renders fine.

seems to be a problem with .nk somehow (for all i know)

ok sorry i found it under emitter attributes, but i'm still not sure what the layers are all about? P.S i have a couple of IES files but they won't work (something about 90deg. angles?) could you possibly post one that works or include it in the tut.zip? BTW, i have skindigo115 & indigo116, when i t...

To create an IES light:
1) Choose the 'Layer' that the material will emit.
2) Check the 'IES Path' box.
3) Browse for a valid IES file by clicking the '..' button.


explain step 1 please. 'Layer'?

i know what layers are just not in this context? i can't seem to get to step 2

YES! both apps do different things better so it would be nice to have the option.

its the :% you can put any word with it or just use it alone

BTW you can turn off the information collection thingy in the options doomsdayer