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Using V-Ray objects: The V-Ray clipper

Using V-Ray objects: The V-Ray clipper

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

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Using V-Ray objects: The V-Ray clipper

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- [Instructor] In this exercise, we're going to walk through using the clipper tool that is essentially V-Ray's way of creating render time cutaway effects. Now, SketchUp users new to V-Ray may wonder why we don't just use SketchUp's own section plane tool, given that it is, after all, very easy to work with. Well, we could do that, and so if we just apply the section plane to our butterfly, position it so that we get an interesting intersection, and then take a render, we can see that everything works just as we would expect. However, this kind of planar cutaway, albeit in various orientations, is pretty much all that we can do with the section plane tool, which is fine if this type of cutaway is all that we need. The V-Ray clipper tool by comparison though is capable of bringing a little bit more to the table for us. To demonstrate, let's delete the SketchUp section plane and then, after drawing out a polygonal shape…

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