From the course: SketchUp: Rendering for Compositing in V-Ray Next

Setting your SketchUp preferences

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering for Compositing in V-Ray Next

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Setting your SketchUp preferences

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- [Instructor] In order to easily access the various assets contained in the exercise files download for this course, there is a little bit of tweaking in SketchUp that you may want to run through with me in order to help make working with them just that little bit easier. From the window menu in the SketchUp UI then, let's open our Preferences dialogue, and in the File section, point each of the folder types found there to the correspondingly named folders found inside the exercise files download. Something else that we will probably want to check as we open up each of the provided scene files would be the texture and asset paths that can be accessed via V-Ray Next's File Path Editor tool. From the V-Ray flyout in the Extensions menu then let's open up the File Path Editor and just check that each of the assets being used in the scene are pointing to the correct location, with many simply needing to point to the default materials directory that is a part of our V-Ray Next for SketchUp install. Others though will need pointing to the texture images folder that is also a part of the exercise files download, with color color coded boxes that we see denoting the status of the file path itself. Green shows that the file is both available and has its path visible to V-Ray. A yellow box would denote a file that is available, but only because it is embedded in a temporary cache file. Whilst a red flag would show that a file is either missing, or at the very least, currently inaccessible to V-Ray, and so will need some attention from us.

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