From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

Finding V-Ray tools in the SketchUp UI - SketchUp Tutorial

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

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Finding V-Ray tools in the SketchUp UI

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- [Instructor] The very first time that we run SketchUp after running thought the V-Ray installation process that is, we won't need to look too far in order to discover the most visible set of V-Ray interface controls that are made available to us. This is because on launch, we typically get access to a very obvious set of V-Ray-specific toolbars. Now these could start up as free floating element, and so would need docking to the SketchUp interface, or they could start already docked to the UI as we see them here. If you don't see these toolbars at all on boot-up, not to worry, as enabling them is very straight forward. All we need 'do is come to the View menu, open up the Toolbars dialog, and then from down at the bottom of the alphabetically-sorted list, enable the three V-Ray options that we see there, so V-Ray for SketchUp, V-Ray Lights and V-Ray Objects. While we're here, let's also set the SketchUp interface to the configuration that I will be using throughout the remainder of this course by turning off the Getting Started toolbar and instead enabling the Large Tool Set option. Now we can of course dock our V-Ray toolbars anywhere in the SketchUp interface that we like, but I typically prefer having them run left to right across the very top, sitting just below the menus. Now in order to make following along with the steps that we're going to taking in the course as easy as possible, you may find that setting them up in the same configuration as me is beneficial, in other words running in the same order as they are listed in the Toolbar dialog. Now the beauty of these toolbars of course is the fact that they give us quick and easy access to the tools and controls that we will make use of on a daily basis when working with the V-Ray render engine. That being the case then, it would be good in our next exercise to quickly start running through what each of the toolbar icons give us in the way of V-Ray tools.

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