U g I n f o r d e s I g n e r s

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B
C
Material editor can be pulled out from the icon under VRay for SketchUp tool box, from Material 
Editor from Plugins V-Ray tab, or by right-clicking the Edit button in Properties window
.
Material Editor in V-Ray for SketchUp
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C
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V-Ray for SketchUp
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How to add new material:
1
2
3
. Right click on Scene Material, select Add new material, Add VRayMtl.
. Right
click
on
Scene
Material
, 
select
Import
new
material
to
import
a
saved
material
file
.
. Right click on object, click on Create button to add a new material.
Diffuse Layer
Color:
used
to
apply
color
on
material
. 
The
m
box
on
the
right
is
used
to
apply
pattern
and
arrange
sequence
.
Transparency: used to adjust the color transparency. Black is completely opaque and white is 
completely transparent.

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V-Ray for SketchUp
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How to remove material
:
Right click on the name of the material you wish to delete, and select remove. If the material being 
removed is applied to the objects in the scene, V-Ray will show a pop-up window to ask if you want 
to remove it for sure.
How to change the name of a material:
Right
click
on
the name of the material you wish to change, and select Rename. The name of the 
material can not have a number in the first digit or spaces within the name
How to duplicate a material
:
Under Material Workplace,
right click on the
material
you
wish
to
duplicate
, 
and
select
Duplicate
. 
This
is
another
way
to
add
a
new
material
.

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You can not use undo to undo the change in 
Material Editor.
Purge unused materials: Right click on Scene Materials 
to select purge unused materials to remove materials 
which are not applied on the scene objects.
Any materials under the Scene Materials can be applied to objects by right-clicking on the model 
object.
Others
Right click on the material you wish to export, and select “export” to export this material. The file 
extension is .vismat, the file is 1 KB. This file can be imported or sent to other users later on.
Another three selections:
. Select Objects by materials:
Selects
the
objects
in
the
scene
with
this
material
.
. Apply materials to object(s): Applies this material to selected objects in the scene.