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

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V-Ray scene import and export

V-Ray scene import and export

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V-Ray scene import and export

- [Instructor] For lots of artists these days, moving geometry and even full scenes between applications over the course of a project has become a regular occurrence, and whilst industry standards such as Autodesk's FBX and DWG formats can get many of us part of the way there, what they don't give is the ability to work with render engine-specific items such as V-Ray lights and material types, for instance. For those using V-Ray 3.6 and upwards in SketchUp, though, that particular problem has at least somewhat disappeared, thanks to Chaos Group's development of the V-RayScene object. Originally created as a way to render scenes using the V-Ray standalone engine, independent of a host application such as 3ds Max or SketchUp, the V-RayScene file can include everything needed in order to create a finished render, without ever opening that scene file in a 3D application. What we get being geometry with UV mapping intact,…

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