There’s two ways to do this – you can either adjust the settings of a SketchUp material, or you can apply a Vray material to your model.

The way that rendering materials in Vray works is that you apply a texture to an object in SketchUp, then you apply different presets and settings to those materials to tell Vray how to treat those materials when it renders them.

If you right click on the material, there are several different options that you’re going to find useful, including the ability to select all objects with a certain material applied to them, the ability to apply materials to selected objects in your SketchUp scene, and more!.

In addition, you can also preview your material in different uses by clicking on the 3 dots next to your material preview. If you click on any of these materials, your material preview will show you a preview of what that material is going to look like within your Vray Rendering. Notice that this will correspond with the materials contained in the “In Model” dropdown of your material editor in SketchUp.

When you first open up the material editor, you’re going to see a list of the materials currently contained in the SketchUp model.

Click on the circle with the checkerboard pattern to access the material editor.

To start off, material editing in Vray 3.6 occurs within the asset editor, which can be found in the Vray for SketchUp toolbar.So far, when working with Vray, we’ve talked about lighting our models – now I want to give you an introduction to working with materials in Vray. If so, please consider supporting me on Patreon (click here to support) or by visiting my Support the Show Page!

In this video, learn the basics of applying qualities to materials in Vray for SketchUp to create photorealistic materials!ĭo you like these SketchUp tutorials and videos? GETTING STARTED WITH VRAY MATERIALS – Vray Rendering for SketchUp Tutorial

Vray material library for sketchup