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

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V-Ray map types: Mix (Operator)

V-Ray map types: Mix (Operator)

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

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V-Ray map types: Mix (Operator)

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- [Narrator] One very easy map art texture type that we can use in V-Ray Next for Sketchup, and especially so if we have any experience using blending modes in an image editing or compositing application, would be the Mix (Operator) map. To help us take a look at that, we have a render of our scene already saved in the V-Ray frame of our window that shows everything looking fairly clean and tidy at the moment. What if wanted to add a little more detail to say, the diffuse color of our table material though? Well, as we are using a bitmap to control that aspect of our shader, we could, if we wanted, take that bitmap into something like Photoshop and add the extra detail that we need from there. In fact, if we had some very specific detailing in mind that we wanted to add, taking our geometry into something like Substance Painter would be another viable option open to us. On occasion though, all we really want to do is…

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