From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

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The V-Ray material library

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From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

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The V-Ray material library

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- [Instructor] Another nice inclusion in V-Ray 3 for SketchUp was the edition of an extensive library of ready-made, easy to use material types that can be accessed by opening up the Asset Editor, and from inside the Material Editor tab, clicking the left-facing arrow to expand the UI. What we get now, are two new tabs entitled Categories and Library; in the Categories section, we have a alphabetical list of the material types available, such as bricks, concrete, fabrics and so on, whilst below, if we just click to select one of those categories, we get a list and preview of the various materials that are housed inside that category. We can rearrange the UI a little, here, if we want, by left-clicking and dragging on the Library tab in order to drop it next to the category list, and then arrange that in either a list or a grid view, setting the thumbnails to be as large or small as we like. To use a material, all we need to do is left-click and drag and drop it into the material list,…

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