Introduction to V-Ray-specific materials

When it comes to outputting serious high-quality renders from our 3D…application, one of the things we have to recognize very quickly is that a lot…of the finished quality, a lot of the power and functionality housed in our…rendering engine of choice, comes from the materials and maps that are written…specifically for that engine.…In fact, we can say without hesitation that all of today's high-quality render…engines of both the biased and unbiased varieties would be nowhere near as…appealing or convincing in their output if not for the engine-specific…materials and maps they use.…

VRay is of course no exception in this regard.…And if come and open up 3ds Max's Material Editor, we will use the icon up on…the Main toolbar, and you can see we are working in the Slate Material Editor at…this moment in time.…So if you want to change the mode, if you are in Compact, then this is how you do that.…And if we just come into the search by name field and type vray, you can see we…get access to all of the V-Ray-specific materials and maps that are a part of…