How to move or hide the base model that skatter use

Skatter General
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What happened is this time my model is close to the axis 0.0.0 where skatter create a copy of the component you skatter and now I have a blob of trees and bushes that cover some of the view I need. Is there a way to change that location or hide them?

I cannot select them and put them on a layer so I cannot hide them that way

I cannot move the model since this file is linked to 2 other model files that are imported in this one

Thanks

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Do you use the “Unhide all” shortcut from the Edit menu?

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I mentioned this problem in December… Vray - sketchup 2021
After a few updates the Skatter V2 is even worse…
When using render only mode skatter always make a copy of the component which apear close to the 0.0.0 axis point.
Since I bought Skatter V2 (November) I didn’t even start using it in my projects because Skatter just doesn’t work.
When I have problems with Skatter V2 I just went back to Skatter V1 for a while but after updating vray 5 to newer versions, problems with skatter 1 also started…

very frustrating

Windows 10 Pro
SketchUp 20.2.172
V-ray 5.20.05
Skatter 2.1.5

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Does it happen with any kind of object, or only proxies?

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Only proxies.

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Are those proxies pointing to .vrmesh or .vrscene files?

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Vrscene.

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Could you send your files (the .skp and the .vrscene) to [email protected]?

Thanks

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I just sent the files you requested.

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Hi,

I have also reported this before, and it still happens sometimes.
In my case, those objects are locked, therefore I can manually unlock them and put them in a separate layer, that I hide afterwards.
Of course if it’s working ok (for me), I guess it is not the way it should be :wink:

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@Thomas any progress?

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I’m working on it right now!
Thanks a lot for the file, it helped me reproduce the issue. Now I’m trying to understand why it happens :slight_smile:

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Thanks!
Unfortunately @Eqc solution didn’t work for me.

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Can you try replacing the attached files?
skatter.zip (34.6 KB)

skatter/src/composition/generation.rbe
skatter/src/utils/vray_exporter.rbe
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Now render only mode works when I import .vrscene :ok_hand:
But 3D Bazaar stopped working completely, I try to export composition with composition manager then I try import and when I press render in vray Error [V-Ray] Exception in CORE: Internal error. Please save and restart as soon as possible! appears :confused:

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That is what I did, i needed a quick solution so I tried that and it works. I was afraid to unlock them because in the past using models coming from different programs most of the time I was getting problems unlocking them but they were all models from vray and it was all good