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This page provides details on the V-Ray Toolbar.

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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.

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Add V-Ray toolbars from the SketchUp View menu > Toolbars.

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Toolbar Functions

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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
Image Modified	Shows the Asset Editor window
Image Modified	Shows the Chaos Cosmos window.
Image Modified	Starts or stops a non-Interactive render.
Image Modified	Starts or stops an Interactive

render

Render.

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Exports and renders the current scene with the Chaos Cloud

Opens the Chaos Cloud window from where jobs are submitted to Chaos Cloud for rendering.
Image Added	Opens the Chaos Cloud window from where jobs are submitted to Chaos Cloud for batch rendering.
Image Modified	Starts V-Ray Vision.
Image Modified	Triggers an Interactive

render

Viewport Render in

the

SketchUp

viewport.

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Allows render regions to be selected in the viewport

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Image Modified	Shows the V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB).
Image Modified	Starts or stops a Batch Render. This iterates through all scenes of the SketchUp project and renders them one by one.

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Starts a Cloud Batch Render. This iterates through all scenes of the SketchUp project and uploads them to the Chaos Cloud for rendering.

Image Modified	Allows the camera to move without updating the render view during Interactive Rendering.
Image Modified	Starts V-Ray Light Gen.
Image Modified	Activates the Rectangle Light tool. Click and drag in a viewport to create the light.
Image Modified	Activates the Sphere Light tool. Click and drag in a viewport to create the light.
Image Modified	Activates the Spot Light tool. Click and select a point in a viewport to create the light.
Image Modified	Activates the IES Light tool. Click and drag in a viewport to create the light.
Image Modified	Activates the Omni Light tool. Click in a viewport to create the light.
Image Modified	Activates the Dome Light tool. Click in a viewport to create the light.
Image Modified	Creates a Mesh Light. Converts the selected Group or Component into a V-Ray Mesh Light object.
Image Modified	Creates an Infinite Plane object. Click in a viewport to create the object.
Image Modified	Exports the selected Group or Component as a .vrmesh file. Optionally, replaces a selection with the created V-Ray Proxy.
Image Modified	Imports a .vrmesh file as a V-Ray Proxy object in the scene.
Image Modified	Converts the selected Group or Component into a V-Ray Fur object.
Image Modified	Creates a Clipper Plane. Converts the selected Group or Component into a V-Ray Mesh Clipper object.
Image Modified	Add V-Ray Displacement to the selected Group or Component.
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Creates

Creates V-Ray Decal

that

that projects one material on top of another.
Image Modified	Adds V-Ray Enmesh to the selected Group or Component.
Image Modified	Adds a Scatter modifier to a selected group or component.
Image Modified	Makes the Scatter preview visible in the viewport.
Image Modified	Enables the use of faces for the viewport widgets. Only lines are used when this option is disabled.
Image Modified	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

LayOut without any unnecessary V-Ray widgets and preview geometries.
Image Modified	Removes the material from the currently selected face, group, or component and all its children.
Image Modified	Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A cubic projection is used with texture size independent of object scaling.
Image Modified	Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A cubic projection is used with texture scaled to match objects bounding box size.
Image Modified	Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A spherical projection¹ with texture size independent of object scaling.
Image Modified	Modifies the texture placement for the selected objects. A spherical projection with texture scaled to match objects bounding box size.
Image Modified	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.
Image Modified	Starts Chaos Vantage.