From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray Next

Setting our SketchUp preferences

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray Next

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Setting our SketchUp preferences

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- 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 up our preferences dialogue. And in the file section, point each of the folder types found there to the correspondingly named folders that can be found in the exercise files download. Something that we will want to check as we open up each of the provided scene files would be the texture and assets paths that can be accessed via V-Ray Next's new File Path Editor tool. And so from the V-Ray flyout in the Extension menu, let's open up the File Path Editor, and then just check that each of the assets being used in the scene are pointing to the correct location. With the vast majority of them, simply needing to point to the default materials directory that is a part of our V-Ray Next for Sketchup install. This, in my case, being found at C, Program Files, Chaos Group, V-Ray, V-Ray for Sketchup, Extension, Library, Materials. It is worth noting whilst in here though, that this new File Path Editor isn't just for texture map control, as it gives us the ability to manage all of our scene assets from a single UI location, meaning we can also set file paths and create scene archives, as well as keep track of textures, IES files and proxy objects with the color coded boxes that we see denoting the status of the file path itself. Green, as we see here, shows that the file is both available and has its path visible to V-Ray. A yellow box would denote that a file 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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