Make it a habit to prefer creating a few good materials, and reuse and refine them throughout your projects. V-Ray will then automatically select it in the asset editor.Ī good material can represent a lot of work. The fastest way to find a particular material is to use the paint bucket and sample it from an object in the Sketchup viewport. Raise the frame buffer’s default height resolution to perhaps 1080 pixels, and zoom in aggressively on the object, so it nearly fills the window.Ī complex model can easily contain hundreds of materials.

To properly assess materials, instead do test renders in the VFB and interactive mode. V-Ray’s live preview swatch is too small. Instead of hiding bad materials with obscure lighting, be frank and sober with your subject. 💡 In low lighting, thick fog and other occluding effects, everything looks kind of good, because what you see is your own imagination, not the object. Evaluate your materials in broad sunlight in an environment with distinct features that interact with the material’s surface. ⚡ Evaluate your materials applied to objects with varied, curving features. Once you can predict what adjusting a certain parameter will do to the material’s appearance, it is time to explore more advanced parameters. The basic properties are diffuse, reflection, glossiness, and bump. 💡 This helps understand how materials work. ⚡ Tweak just one material property at a time, and evaluate incessantly. 💡 Begin with the material closest to what you want, and tweak it subtly as needed. ⚡ For immediate results, use the renderer’s built-in materials. 👨‍🎓 Note that in this step in particular, instructions are more specific and technical. Here, we will make do with a few quick tips. Making good render materials takes dedication. But rarely do we sit down to create a material from scratch. 🚩 In everyday life, we intuitively read environments and sense the effect lights have on it.

Vray material library for sketchup