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Hello everyone, first post here. I'm having difficulties finding a large community of vray for sketchup users and sketchucation's forums on the subject are slow as a crawl. i'm looking for (or just the knowledge towards creating) a material like this where the polycarbonate is white and isn't completely transparent. Here's my dilemma. I have a polycarbonate .vismat implemented into one of my projects and as you can see here, the material is totally clear. Whenever I set the fog and colour settings to white, vray assumes I mean colourless. I've also tried to tamper with the transparency settings here but that didn't seem to heighten the opacity. These seemed to be the go to settings to create my desired effect but now that they aren't working for me I'm a little stuck. Finally, the UV projection on this material is just everywhere. I need the segment breaks to follow the Y axis but it seems they're just snapping adjacent to a random edge. Again, it's probably an easy fix but I have no idea how to go about it. Thanks in advance if you're able to take a look at this for me. Popping the hood on a rendering engine's parameters is quite daunting for a new user.

Hi all - I've tried to search for this with no luck so apologies if I've missed the solution somewhere else. I'm rendering a simple animation in vRay (no GI) with a building fading in from 0% visible to 100%. See attached (chapel_01.jpg) for how it looks mid animation. What I really need though is slightly tricky to explain. I need to not see the hidden geometry when it's fading in. I'm just changing the object's visibility in object properties at keyframes so at the moment it's 'ghosting' in whereas I need to not be able to see geometry behind. I've mocked up what I need in photoshop (chapel_02.jpg) and if the camera was static then I'd just compile in post but the camera has movement so I can't. Any ideas? Any help very gratefully received. Thanks. Jonty.