I am upgrading my environment from sketchup 2022 and vray 5 to sketchup 2024 and vray 7 but I have noticed an issue when trying to render Laubwerks plants.
I can see the plants have proxy previews that I can move around the scene and those proxies have materials assigned to them but there is no .vrmesh file linked so when I actually render the scene nothing shows up (not even the proxies).
I tried making a brand new file with nothing in it and imported a couple Laubwerks trees to test and I can confirm it does not import them the same way it used to and they are not actually “linked” to the scene.
Am I just doing this wrong or is there something buggy happening?
I can import the materials into V-ray but that doesnt import the .vrmesh from anywhere I can tell.
This was fixed a few months ago by chaos. Are you importing the proxys from another sketchup file or are you trying to render an old model? If that’s the case you must import from laubwerk, otherwise vray won’t render them.
Did you just install the most current version of Both V-Ray and Laubwerk Player? And restart SketchUp? I’ve found for me, the V-Ray .vrmesh and materials don’t show up in the Asset Editor until AFTER I hit render the first time. The proxy materials show but not the Laubwerk plant textures. Notice the list just has my Acer even though I imported an Acacia…
I am trying to render old models that I started back in Vray 5 and convert them to Vray 7. Going from 5 to 6 was pretty painless but 6 to 7 is proving to be more difficult.
When I try to import a plant from Laubwerk it will show the proxy in the scene but the proxy mesh doesnt show up in the Vray asset editor under the geometries tab like it should. Any of the Laubwerks plants that I already had in the scene prior to upgrading do show up in the geometries tab but their file path is missing.
I have re-installed Laubwerks plant kits a few times and ive confirmed the files are where they should be. I just did another render on this scene and then checked the asset editor and file paths and didnt notice any changes. Only the Laubwerks geometry appears to be missing but the textures are all there. any other geometries from chaos assets are there too.
EDIT:
I just tried to render another file for example and noticed that while it did have filepaths for the proxy mesh geometries, none of them were pathed right. They appear to be stuck referencing an old temp directory from I assume the last time the file was saved. In the final render these plants were completely missing.
When I placed a new plant down it did not show up as a new geometry and it displayed as a proxy mesh in the final render.
Those plants that are showing up are all chaos assets. I need to get these Laubwerks plants to work because I have hundreds of files that depend on them
