VRay-for-SketchUp-Manual.pdf

A R E N D E R I N G P LU G I N FO R D E S I G N E R S

V-Ray for SketchUp

By Chia Fu Chiang

Damien Alomar

Jorge Barrero

Table of Contents

Install V-Ray for SketchUp................................................................

Activating V-Ray for SketchUp...........................................................

Before you Start Rendering...............................................................

Understanding Default Settings..........................................................

Render Options............................................................................

Save and Load Option Settings

Two ways to assign materials in V-Ray

Material Editor.............................................................................

Diffuse Layer

Adding a new Material

How to duplicate a material

How to change the name of a material

How to remove a material

Others

Material Usage.............................................................................

Add Lights..................................................................................

The Characteristics of Rectangular Light...............................................

Size does matter

Shadows change according to the size

Impact on reflective objects due to visible and invisible rectangle light

Double Sided Option

Material: Reflection Layer................................................................

Adding Reflection Layer

Fresnel Reflections

Reflections and Highlights................................................................

Other Parameters..........................................................................

Reflection Glossiness

Reflection Filter

Refraction Layer...........................................................................

Add Refraction Layer

Controlling the Amount of Transparency

The color of refractive materials

Fog Settings Explained

Adjusting Refraction IOR

The Glossiness of Refractive Materials

Shadows of Refractive Materials

Double-Sided Material

Translucent Material

Emissive Materials.........................................................................

Add Emissive Layer

Adjust the Intensity

Adjust the Color

Emissive Textures

Texture Mapping...........................................................................

Projection Types and Adjustments

Bump Maps.................................................................................

Displacement..............................................................................

Adding Displacement

Displacement Parameters

Adjusting Displacement

Transparency Mapping....................................................................

What is Transparency Mapping

How Transparency Mapping Works

Another Method to create the same result

Other uses for transparency mapping

V-Ray Linked Material.....................................................................

V-Ray Two-Sided Material.................................................................

Adding a V-Ray Two-Sided Material

Working with V-Ray Two-Sided Material

V-Ray for Sketch Up Two-Sided Material.................................................

Adding a V-Ray for Sketch Up Two-Sided Material

Working with V-Ray for Sketch Up Two-Sided Material

Environment Lighting.....................................................................

Interior or Exterior?

Techniques for adjusting illumination

HDR Environment Light Source

Bitmap Environment Light Source

Environment Light source for semi-open space

Choosing different Render Engines......................................................

Classification of Light Bounces

Primary Engine: Irradiance Map

Primary/Secondary Engine: Quasi Monte Carlo

Secondary Engine: Light Cache

Lighting Dialog Box........................................................................

Light and Shadow..........................................................................

The Quality of Shadow

Radius for Shadow edge

Depth of Field..............................................................................

What is Depth of Field?

How to find out the focal distance

Size of Aperture

Change focal distance

Physical Camera...........................................................................

Type of Camera

Exposure

Adjusting Exposure

Using Aperture

Using Shutterspeed

Using ISO

Adjusting White Balance

Sun and Sky.................................................................................

Using the Sun with the V-Ray Physical Camera

Accessing the Sun Properties

Exposing Your scene with the Physical Camera

Adding the V-Ray Sky

Time of Day and the Sun's appearance

Changing the Sun's Appearance with Turbidity

Changing the Sun's Appearance with Ozone

Gamma Correction and the V-Ray Sun and Sky

Enabling Gamma Correction

Using Color Mapping with the V-Ray Sun

Caustics....................................................................................

What are Caustics?

Examples

Color Mapping..............................................................................

The Function of Color Mapping

Types of Color Mapping

Adaptive Subdivision Control.............................................................

Adaptive Subdivision Sampler

Fixed Rate Sampler

Adaptive QMC Sampler

Resolution of the Image...................................................................

Image size setting

Saving your image

V-Ray Frame Buffer........................................................................

Render image window toolbar

Distributed Rendering.....................................................................

Setting Up the V-Ray Distributed Rendering Spawner

Finding the IP address of the slave Computer

Starting the DR Spawner

Connecting to Slave Machines

Some Considerations for Distributed Rendering

Sample Materials..........................................................................

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