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[gb1234]

How do you link a sketchup material to a vray material?

[pnavarra]

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Right button click on SceneMAterial in the VrayMtlEditor.

[fluke73]

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???? Yes im doing what you're saying PierreNavara... but then i get a popup showing the materials in my sketchup scene. Then i select and klick Apply - what does that do (mean). When i do it nothing happens.

What i would like it to do for me is to assign a material in vray material editor to one material in sketchup so the next time i select that material i sketchup and use the paint bucket i will actually paint with the vray material that is linked to the sketchup material. Is this how it is supposed to work or am i just making this up?

[pnavarra]

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Hi understand your wishes fluke Put it in the Wishlist. Could be nice.

[joe_b]

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To apply a V-Ray material you must select the object/face and right-click. This will bring up a context menu. At the bottom you will see V-Ray for Sketchup. There you can apply/create/edit materials.

With linked materials we basically just provide a means of "wrapping" a Sketchup material with additional V-Ray information. But currently you can use the paint-bucket to apply our materials. I'm not sure if thats possible for 3rd party plugins, but we can look into it.

[fluke73]

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Oh... so linking a material from sketchup to vray is actually not linking to the material in sketchup it self, even though it's clalled linking, but actually taking the color, texture and mapping from skethcup into vray material editor and then releasing it. Then you modify it to your needs and then need to apply it by selecting all the objects and right click apply to front/back.

But hey... im glad you liked my idea - and i would love to see it in action. Because then you just have to connect each material in vray to the ones in the palette for sketchup and just pick material and paint away... this way you can actually set the lightgray color to be metal and so on and then when you change one place in vray editor it changes all those who are has the color silver (lightgray) and so on...

[fluke73]

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Oh... Joeb... are you getting my things? Should i put it in the whishlist or not? Or is it just okay that i mentioned it here?

I wasn't actually meant to be a wish - just a question if that was how it worked. But if you like i can make it as a wish - if it actually is possible.

[joe_b]

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Its better to put it in the wishlist section just so its all in one spot. It makes it easier to track the various suggestions if they aren't spread throughout all the sections.

[joe_b]

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Oh... so linking a material from sketchup to vray is actually not linking to the material in sketchup it self, even though it's clalled linking

The linking is more Sketchup material - > V-Ray not the other way around. You are linking a SketchUp material to a V-Ray material. So when that V-Ray material is evaluated certain portions of it are determined by a SketchUp material. Also, I'm pretty sure that at the time a linked material is created we automatically apply the V-Ray material to anything that had the SketchUp material applied to it. But future applications of the SketchUp material do not bring the V-Ray material...I suppose maybe that would make more sense your way, but that isn't how it is at the moment.