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The VRmat material

The VRmat material

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The VRmat material

- [Instructor] Another material type that we have available when working in V-Ray, is the VRmat option. Previously referred to in some applications as a vismat material. Indeed, the fact that this material has been around for quite some time in V-Ray and has in recent years been added to V-Ray in a number of applications that it wasn't previously in, means that there is already quite a collection of user created content available online. A quick search for either the vismat or VRmat terms in our search engine of choice, should turn up quite a number of resources such as those found at the vismats.com website. The thing that we need to understand about the VRmat material though, is that it is essentially a utility material that simply acts as a rapper for a material definition file. Thus allowing for the easy archiving and distribution of already created V-Ray materials. So for instance, to create a VRmat from an…

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