I've tried rendering a section in vray for sketchup, but cutting the section in the sketchup model, except it renders the whole thing, not the section? Does anyone know how to render a section?

use a plane + intersect with model

Right and delete what i dont need to make the section?

That's the way I proceed. And I often need as many copies as needed sections... But it works.

As many copies please explain?

I guess A_Minima says that you must first copy the model you want to section...
because it's faster than the undo command ;) and you never know ... It 's always good "a little backup"...

(that's the way I do it too)

Ah i see, forgive me for I am dyslexic, it takes me a while sometimes!

no worries man! :)
If you have any other questions let us know!

Anyone have any examplse of rendered sections they would like to share?

that's a section I made about a year ago ...

su+3dsmax+vray+photoshop

It not the maxim but made my tutor happy ... :cheers:

nice i like it, will try and set mine up to render overnight, better finsish modelling the building!

The other question I wondered whether any ppbers could help me with is how do you render something so it isn't in perspective? As in i put the view in sketchup so it is just a section, not in perspective, but it still renders in perspective!

My guess is that your rendering engine has a camera that is independent of the Sketch-up camera settings.

Yeah make sure you turn off the physical camera and then adjust the field of view. Physical camera is on by default usually and it will lock in the field of view, that is also why you'll notice that the vray renderings never exactly match the perspective from sketchup.

use a plane + intersect with model

Right and delete what i dont need to make the section?

These things might seem obvious to you lot but very helpful for me. Thanks :cheers:

What should the field of view be 0?

that's a section I made about a year ago ...

su+3dsmax+vray+photoshop

It not the maxim but made my tutor happy ... :cheers:

Thats a bloody nice section!.

nice section ....
see the problem is getting that "1 point perspective" in SU. Is there anyway to do that or am i just missing something.

thanks guys!
I was wondering about the " 1 point persp. " too ...
anyone ?

:wondering :wondering hmmm. well i think if you change the FOV to 120 degrees and look at elevation in regular perspective mode it gets pretty close to a 1 point perspective drawing.

that's it!!! thanks corri!