Cannot minimise/close window in V-ray

[lee.burrell1995]

As soon as I open the render window for v-ray, there is no way of exiting back to the sketch up model. PLEASE help! I cannot minimise, exit or do anything. I am forced to Force Quit SkechUp entirely

[eric-s]

You can toggle back and forth between SU and V-Ray Frame Buffer via the ‘Window’ menu.

You can also drag the corner of the V-Ray Frame Buffer to re-size (you can’t see my mouse cursor but I grabbed the bottom right corner and adjusted from there):

[lee.burrell1995]

No I cant, it seems that when I am in full-screen mode in SketchUp, and I try open up the V-ray render window, it loses that entire top bar as well as the ability to go back into SketchUp and changing the screen size, even if using Mac Commands I switch back to the SketchUp window.

[eric-s]

What happens when you are not in Fullscreen mode?

[Box]

Sounds like the window isn’t full screen but floating and larger than the screen area.

[Perdy]

Hi Lee, did you establish a cause for this as I’m now having the same issue.
Many thanks
Pen

[pinklime]

Having the exact same issue

[pinklime]

It does work if I use SketchUp not in fullscreen-mode and then open the V-ray render window

[CarrieC]

Hi there. I’m having this exact issue and I can’t see that it was ever resolved. I’m really stuck and need to exit hopefully without losing everything I’ve already done I sketchup…
help.

[CarrieC]

Hi there. Did Lee get back to you on this issue? I’m having the same problem. I can’t get back into sketchup and I really don’t want to force quit and lose everything…

[MikeWayzovski]

Pressing Cmd ‘W’ sometimes helps

[rwamoore]

Same issue, Cmd W like Mike said above works for me.

[ItsBrett]

Since this was my issue in Dec. 2023, and there is a fix, I’m posting for others, though this thread is quite old; dated April 2021… (it still comes up first in searches)

In vray 6 for sketchup, there is a setting under extensions->vray->preferences->parent frame buffer which is defaulted to ON. The setting is meant to keep the frame buffer on top of the sketchup window, but in full-screen, it screws things up by not allowing you to even touch the window ‘beneath’.
Turn it off and your frame buffer will stop acting like a bratty teenager that doesn’t want to do what it’s told.
It’s not mentioned as a Workflow change, but rather as a Footnote, at the very bottom of the page, in the instructions website. See here: Chaos docs footnote

[ar11]

Continuing the discussion from Cannot minimise/close window in V-ray:

Newly launched SU w Vray works fine, the issue occurs after several renders. Didn’t help “Parent frame” OFF. Behaves like a bug, and not as a workflow function.