From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Residential Exterior Materials

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Setting up V-Ray

Setting up V-Ray - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Residential Exterior Materials

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Setting up V-Ray

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- [Instructor] Now, let's move on to rendering. For this project, we're going to use the V-Ray Renderer. So if you don't have V-Ray installed, go ahead and install that, or the demo version now. Now once we have V-Ray installed, we can select it as our renderer. Now, when we switch to V-Ray, we need to make sure a couple of things are in place. The most important one is materials. Now if we take a look at the scene that we have, by opening up the Material Editor, you'll see that if I eyedropper the basic building, you'll see that we've got a number of materials, but they're all the standard material. Now these will work with V-Ray, but not optimally. For best results, we really do need to use either the V-Ray Material or 3dsMax's Physical Material. Now this particular building does have a lot of materials, and most of these were selected in SketchUp when this was conceived and those materials came over. Now we can translate those, using what's called the Scene Converter. So if I go…

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