Subdivisions didn't change much though I was probably doing it wrong. I ended up finding a higher quality sphere. The balls from small to large are glass, red wine, wax. Cooked overnight to remove noise but was 'good enough' after an hour or so.

Borgleader wrote:Increase the subdivision amount? Or wasnt there a "built-in" sphere primitive?

I had just grabbed the sphere from google's warehouse. So it was already pretty low quality.

Here is one I just did to mess around with some materials. Anyone have any tips on how to make the sphere's more spherical? Any other input?

Type studio light on the bottom right. I'm shure you will find interesting things. Thanks, I didn't even know exactly what to search for. I'm messing around with some of the configurations I found. Still trying to learn the power and efficacy settings but I think I'm figuring it out. Doing it right...

I have an object that fits in a 1' 6" cube. It has brushed aluminum, transparent acrylic, and some shiny metals. I have it sitting on a box with a wood material. How would you go about setting the lighting and render settings for this? I understand how the lighting and rendering settings work (or at...

I'm messing around with that bump map, thanks! If other people have made successful materials, why do they not upload them to the materials section? I know for some renderers, their materials libraries are HUGE. Is it because indigo is relatively new?

Did you tried what Meelis said: Go to skindigo material editor/brushed alumini/material attributes and set the bump map to none because there is actually a shader on it. That should work! I reinstalled Sketchup and the problem doesn't seem to be there or carry over to other materials. It still appe...

Okay, so I am now completely confused. It does it with just about any material besides a diffuse. I made a new drawing with a similar shape and same thing. Should I maybe reinstall sketchup?

That seems to resolve the problem. Thanks!!! Does that slow down render times as there are more faces? I guess I don't quite understand what Smooth/Soften does. edit: Nevermind, that didn't do it. I even opened a brand new sketchup drawing and made a similar sheet with similar results. I am thinking...

I installed the Fredo6 plugin but that did not solve it. I've attached the original file. The materials still need some work but I haven't bothered too much until I fix this problem. I am using the Brushed Aluminum material from the gallery and when it is stock, it is even worse. Once I tweak it to ...

I am trying to render a metal panel (among lots of other things) made from brushed aluminum. When I run the render, I get some weird lines showing in the plane of the panel. They seem to be part of the wire frame though there are no lines at those locations. I think they are some part of the geometr...