How to change a diffuse color in Vray?

[Jay Shockey]

Hello everyone, I have attached a quick pic and a question I have regarding changing a diffuse color in vray? I have a dresser i built in sketchup and want to add a different wood color. I downloaded a poliigon wood texture I like and called it WOOD TRIM. I liked the wood texture but not the color. I changed the RGB values in sketchup as well as Vray but when I go to render it, the color change does not work, and just defaults back to the original poliigon color? Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks sooo much!!

Jay

[caecarvalho]

Hello Jay,

If you are using V-Ray Next for Sketchup Update 1, all you have to do is:
1- click on 'Extentions' menu on top of the SU window;
2- click on 'V-Ray';
3- click on 'Tools';
4- click on 'Colorize Textures (Experimental)' to enable this feature;

After that, you should see your color corrections applyed in SU material editor show up correctly in your renders.

*Note that the material preview of the v-ray asset manager will not change, but you should see the changes when rendering.

Other thing is that, if you have a texture in the diffuse slot, changing the diffuse color won't affect your texture.

Best regards,

Caetano

[Peter.Chaushev]

Hello, Jay,
Caetano described the workflow perfectly.
Please keep in mind that the colorization support in V-Ray for SketchUp is still a work in progress as its label suggests.

Another method to achieve the same effect is via the V-Ray Asset Editor. Slot the Diffuse Bitmap texture within a Color correction texture (or alternatively, Bezier Curve or Spline color correction textures). This generally provides greater control over the texture output. Here's a demo: https://youtu.be/CiLClh2OshY?t=426 (at 07:06).
Note that color-correcting a texture in V-Ray cannot be directly previewed in the SketchUp viewport.