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Table of Content

License Agreement

Lisense Agreement for V-ray for Sketchup 1

License Agreement for the V-ray License Server 4
Credits and 3rd Party Copyright Notices 8
Features 10

Installation 11

Glossary 12
System Requirements 13
Installation of V-ray for Sketchup 14
Setting up your License 21
Troubleshooting 27
Uninstall V-ray 42
V-ray Configuration 44
V-ray Licensing System 47

Getting Started Videos 50

Quick Start 50
V-ray Express 50
V-ray Dome Light
V-ray Proxy 50
V-ray RT CPU and GPU 50
V-ray Dome Light - Spanish 50
V-Proxy - Spanish 50
V-ray RT - Spanish 50
Distributed Rendering 50

Plugins

Renderer Parameters 55

Global Switches 56
System 59
Camera 61
Environment 77
ImageSampler (Antialiasing) 79
DMC Sampler 98
Color Mapping 100
VFB Channels 101
Output and VFB 106

Indirect Illumination (GI) 112

Brute Force GI 124

Irradiance Map 125
Global Photon Map 131
Light Cache 134
Caustics 147
Default Displacement 150
V-ray RT and Sketchup 151
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Materials

V-ray Angle Blend 153

VrayMtl 154
Vray SKP Two Sided 178
VrayToon 179
Vray Two Sided 182
VrayMtlWrapper 183
V-ray Material 185

Texture

VrayDirt 207
VraySun and VraySky

Light

Vray Omni Light 214

Vray Rectangular Light 216
Vray Spot Light 220
Vray Dome Light 223
Vray Sphere Light 226
Vray IES Light 229
VraySun and VraySky Parameters 231

Geometric Objects

Vray Proxy 245

CrayPlane 247
VrayLensEffects 248

Tutorials 250

Creating and Using V-ray Proxies 251

2D Proxies in V-ray for Sketchup 255
Basic Materials 264
Reflective Materials 271
V-ray Wrapper Material 276
Image Based Lighting with the Dome Light 285
Rendering an Exterior Scene 290
Rendering an Interior Scene 298
Basic Animation 304
V-ray Batch Render 311
V-ray Option Editor and Preset Toolbar 313
64 Bit Workflow * Sketchup 2014 and below* 322
Introduction to Compositing 325
Distributed Rendering Installation Guide 337

Tools

Irradiance Map Viewer 343

.obj and . ply to vmesh Converter 345
.vring to . exr Conventer 347
Image to Tiled Multiresolution OpenEXR Conventer 348
Filter Generator 350
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Theory

Basic Ray Tracing 352

Classification of GI Methods 353
Terminology 369
Frequently Asked Question 373

Link:

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY2SKETCHUP/V-Ray+2.0+for+SketchUp+Help

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