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Using VRmats

Using VRmats

From the course: V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max Essential Training

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Using VRmats

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- One V-Ray tool that has been available in V-Ray for SketchUp and V-Ray for Rhino for quite some time, but is only now with V-Ray 3.0, making its debut in V-Ray for 3ds Max is the .vrmat material type, previously referred to in those applications as vismats. The fact that these material types have been around for quite some time, means that there is already quite a collection of user-created content available online, outside, that is, of the considerable library that has been made available to registered users of V-Ray on the Choas Group website. One brilliant thing about this format is the fact that creating and editing them is pretty much the same no matter which content creation application we are using. In our start scene then, let's first of all demonstrate how easy it is to apply an already-created vismat material to some of the objects on our shelves here. From our V-Ray toolbar, let's left-click and hold on the VRmat button so that we can choose the VRmat material from file…

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