This page provides details on the V-Ray Toolbar.
Overview
V-Ray includes a toolbar with easy shortcuts to some of the most commonly used V-Ray components. By default, the toolbar consists of four floating toolbars that can be docked where needed in the SketchUp interface. The V-Ray Toolbars can be easily placed to either a horizontal or vertical position by pulling at the top end of each toolbar.
Add V-Ray toolbars from the SketchUp View menu > Toolbars.
Toolbar Functions
The V-Ray toolbar provides the functions listed below. Note that all buttons check if V-Ray (or respectively V-Ray Interactive) is the current renderer, and if not, prompt you to set the renderer to V-Ray. When you click on the V-Ray (or respectively V-Ray Interactive) button in the toolbar, the icon background changes color. The render buttons can be clicked again to stop the rendering process.
| Button | Description |
|---|---|
| Shows the Asset Editor window |
| Shows the Chaos Cosmos window. |
| Starts or stops a non-Interactive render. |
| Starts or stops an Interactive Render. |
| Opens the Chaos Cloud window from where jobs are submitted to Chaos Cloud for rendering. |
| Opens the Chaos Cloud window from where jobs are submitted to Chaos Cloud for batch rendering. |
| Starts V-Ray Vision. |
| Triggers an Interactive Viewport Render in SketchUp. |
| Shows the V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB). |
| Starts or stops a Batch Render. This iterates through all scenes of the SketchUp project and renders them one by one. |
| Allows the camera to move without updating the render view during Interactive Rendering. |
| Starts V-Ray Light Gen. |
| Activates the Rectangle Light tool. Click and drag in a viewport to create the light. |
| Activates the Sphere Light tool. Click and drag in a viewport to create the light. |
| Activates the Spot Light tool. Click and select a point in a viewport to create the light. |
| Activates the IES Light tool. Click and drag in a viewport to create the light. |
| Activates the Omni Light tool. Click in a viewport to create the light. |
| Activates the Dome Light tool. Click in a viewport to create the light. |
| Creates a Mesh Light. Converts the selected Group or Component into a V-Ray Mesh Light object. |
| Creates an Infinite Plane object. Click in a viewport to create the object. |
| Exports the selected Group or Component as a .vrmesh file. Optionally, replaces a selection with the created V-Ray Proxy. |
| Imports a .vrmesh file as a V-Ray Proxy object in the scene. |
| Converts the selected Group or Component into a V-Ray Fur object. |
| Creates a Clipper Plane. Converts the selected Group or Component into a V-Ray Mesh Clipper object. |
| Add V-Ray Displacement to the selected Group or Component. |
| Creates V-Ray Decal that projects one material on top of another. |
| Adds V-Ray Enmesh to the selected Group or Component. |
| Adds a Scatter modifier to a selected group or component. |
| Makes the Scatter preview visible in the viewport. |
| Enables the use of faces for the viewport widgets. Only lines are used when this option is disabled. |
| Hides V-Ray Lights, Fur, Proxies 2, Infinite Plane, Mesh Clipper and Enmesh widgets from the viewport. This option does not affect rendering. This option provides a cleaner export to LayOut without any unnecessary V-Ray widgets and preview geometries. |
| Removes the material from the currently selected face, group, or component and all its children. |
| Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A cubic projection is used with texture size independent of object scaling. |
| Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A cubic projection is used with texture scaled to match objects bounding box size. |
| Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A spherical projection1 with texture size independent of object scaling. |
| Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A spherical projection with texture scaled to match objects bounding box size. |
| Activates a tool for inspecting scene hierarchy, material, and V-Ray Object ID assignments. Hold down Shift while hovering to select parent group or component definitions. Hold down Shift while hovering and left mouse click to select a material assigned to any group or component in the current hierarchy. The tool can also be used for interactive light intensity manipulation. |
| Starts Chaos Vantage. |
Footnotes
1 – When applying Spherical projection only to specific faces of an object, the mapping does not set properly. This generally occurs with faces aligned along the X or Y axes.
2 – Proxy objects are hidden in the viewport only when the preview type is Bounding Box or Point (origin).