From the course: SketchUp: Rendering for Compositing in V-Ray Next

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Extra Texture

Extra Texture

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering for Compositing in V-Ray Next

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Extra Texture

- [Instructor] The next render element that I want to take a look at here is the extra texture option, that has essentially been designed to render an entire scene with a single texture map applied to all objects. That texture can be a bitmap, or it can be one of the race procedural offering such as the dirt, and curvature maps that are oftentimes used in conjunction with this tool. The brilliant thing here, if we just open up the asset editor, and then access the render elements list. Is that whilst holding down the control key, I can actually add as many versions of the extra texture element, as I like. If I tried that with something like a lighting element, the option would instantly become grayed out, and so no longer selectable. In fact, the extra texture element is the only one in V-Ray next for SketchUp that lets us do this. In what ways might this be useful? Well, let's go ahead and add four versions of the…

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