There is a wealth of supplementary content out there that helps vRay stay at the top, none more important than the accessibility to a wide range of material and texture databases scattered throughout the web. However, vRay is nothing without its support staff.

Today, vRay has a lot of company at the top of the rendering mountain, but remains a titan in the industry capable of creating some of the most incredible images and animations you’ll see. It’s been around since the early days of visualization and 3D animation, when bites were measured in megas and not gigas, marking its territory early by providing the most high-quality rendering on the planet. There is one way to modify the UV size of textures in V-Ray in a relative way regardless of the UVs used.VRay is undoubtedly the most oft-used rendering engine on the planet. It serves as an indicator of the suggested UV size that needs to be manually set: This is why despite the peculiar way SketchUp's texture projection works V-Ray materials cannot store the data of UVs from SketchUp.įurthermore, you may notice some of the V-Ray library materials have a dimension at the end of their names. UVs are part of the object properties, not materials'. The default texture size in SketchUp is 10' or ~0.25m Using any of those options allows adjusting the UV size based on the SketchUp texture size. There, you can either select a custom Bitmap texture or use the generic 'Texture Helper'. This means UVs are only available when the material in SketchUp uses a texture (corresponding to the V-Ray Diffuse texture slot).įor nested and procedural textures or when a material lacks a Diffuse texture a couple of options are offered in the 'Binding' section of the V-Ray material settings. V-Ray assumes object UVs in SketchUp from the texture projected on each object face in SketchUp.

In the illustrations below I've only used a procedural V-Ray Checker texture in the Reflection slot to simplify the example: This is the size a V-Ray material's textures will assume if no object UVs are set. SketchUp's internal scale is always set to 1'.

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