# Best Practices

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/best-practices/32607>\
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**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/best-practices/32607 "2008-10-14T16:34:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dkopp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dkopp](https://forums.chaos.com/u/dkopp)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/best-practices/32607/1 "2008-10-14T16:34:40Z")

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I have rekindled my interest in rendering with VRAY4SKup. Does anybody have any suggestions for a best practice setup using materials. I will mainly be doing exterior commercial renderings. I have created many storefronts that I slap on a building but the materials keep getting messed up.

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**Author:** ![dcauldwell\_cg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/dcauldwell_cg/32/48271_2.png) [@dcauldwell\_cg](https://forums.chaos.com/u/dcauldwell_cg)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/best-practices/32607/2 "2008-10-15T16:12:23Z")

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Re: Best Practices

If you use the latest SR1, then

1) Vray materials are created automatically - to match the SU ones.  
2) If you set up a template you can save the most commonly used render settings and materials in the template.  
3) If you ‘import’ your shopfront models then I believe they will take on the attributes of the commonly set-up materials (e.g. ‘chrome’) - I did a simple test with some cubes and this worked.  
4) However, my experience is that if you insert ‘components’ then for some reason vray creates seperate materials for each component - so don’t do it!!

Hope this helps

David